Turning right, not left?  The Concorde room is one of the most exclusive lounges at Heathrow airport – and it is certainly the most luxurious of all the T5 lounges (as well as most BA lounges elsewhere). … Continue Reading

King Abdulaziz International Airport (Jeddah) is the busiest airport in Saudi Arabia, and the third largest airport in the kingdom. In particular, it’s well known for its Hajj terminal, which was… Continue Reading

My usual view is that when it comes to airline lounges, bigger is not always better. So, when I saw Turkish Airlines claiming that their Istanbul (Ataturk) lounge is “bigger than some airports”… Continue Reading

The Grosvenor House is a five star hotel located in London’s exclusive Mayfair. First opened in 1929, it reopened as a JW Marriott hotel in 2008, and remains beautifully restored throughout. As… Continue Reading

Ask any airline CEO if he would like to be going head-to-head on a daily basis with Europe’s most profitable airline at its home base, and you’d generally expect him to say no.  Yet, this… Continue Reading

The BA Galleries lounge in Heathrow Terminal 5 Arrivals is not your typical airline lounge. It is open from 5.00 am to 2.00 pm, with a key feature being its Full English breakfast, available until 12.30pm… Continue Reading

There is a large Lufthansa lounge complex at Hamburg but as you may have guessed from the sign pictured above, there are pretty much two lounges used by non-Star Alliance airlines at Hamburg – one… Continue Reading

Manchester Terminal 3 has two lounges, a British Airways offering which handles their flights, US Airways and American. The other – paid – lounge is the Escape Lounge, located along a short… Continue Reading