The AirportLounge Wars
News Source : The New Yorker
News Summary
- By 2023, amid the post-pandemic travel boom, John F. Kennedy Airport had increased its lounge space in Terminal 4 alone to some seventy thousand square feet.
- Last year, Priority Pass, a membership network of mostly low- and mid-tier lounges, saw a thirty-one-per-cent increase in visits.
- Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, has thirty-seven—roughly one for every two gates.
- Kasane, Botswana, has a town of about ten thousand people; it has an airport lounge.
Kevin James, a history professor at the University of Guelph who has studied airport lounges, called their product offering an enhanced experience of stasiswaiting but better. Peter Greenberg, CBS Ne [+5586 chars]
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