[maxgeorge]

T5 Galleries Lounges twice last month – packed, queues for the toilets, mediocre food ( the hot breakfast was croissants).

Frustration.

T1 Star Alliance Lounge once – spacious, uncrowded, full selection of quality food, magazines etc ( yes, even The Economist).

Relaxation.

[Agamemnon]

On the subject of Club cutbacks generally. i complained on Twitter recently about the Telegraph having suddenly disappeared from the lounges as I enjoy doing the crossword on flights.

The response was that the Telegraph’s owners had put their prices up, so they’d stopped stocking it. I could only wish DMGT would do the same with the Mail… but I’ve noticed we’ve got the Mirror in the lounge now – hardly very ‘premium’!

[AnthonyDunn]

I have given up complaining about the non-provision of Viz magazine and have taken to providing my own…

[MartynSinclair]

At least BT is still supplied…. 🙂

[Charles-P]

The Business lounge in Dublin used to stock Private Eye, always seemed a surprising but very welcome choice.

[SimonS1]

@Agamemnon. I suspect the Mirror is there for when BA enhance the Andrex supply….

[AnthonyDunn]

@ SimonS1 – 08/10/2014 16:07 GMT

I might just be being very, very slow this afternoon but you’ve rather lost me on that one…! §:-)

[esselle]

I get it!!

[Discovery-Bay]

Obviously he is not ‘brand conscious’.
I got it too!

[dutchyankee]

I’m not even British and I got it! Loved it, very funny!

[LuganoPirate]

Nice one Simon. 😉

[LuganoPirate]

Nice one Simon. 😉

[Alkaseltzer]

Suggest one of the worst events in Club is when all the passengers on a flight & their cabin luggage are crammed like sardines into just one small bus between gate & aircraft…..as happened to me at Verona earlier this year.More recently,travelling to a recently improved St Petersburg & returning,this did not happen.I would be glad to hear more of airports where this generally happens,…so that I can try to avoid them.

[esselle]

Alkaseltzer

My sense is that, in most cases, the bussing is managed by the airport or a service provider rather than the airline. It used to be the case at LHR as well as regards the BA bussing, although this may have changed.

A short while ago, I was the only passenger booked to fly in First on an EK flight and they insisted I travelled to the aircraft in the First class bus, even though I would have been happy to join the J class bus immediately behind it. Big leather armchair, deep pile carpet and chilled bottles of water.

[Alkaseltzer]

Thanks, Esselle.
I agree that the bussing is usually managed by the airport or agents -so strictly I’m out of line in a topic on BA premium cutbacks-but I do find it a problem.

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