British Airways replaces its dire Bordeaux airport lounge

British Airways now has access to a new lounge in Bordeaux.

Credit where credit is due.  British Airways has been making a serious effort over the last year to add extra lounges to its European network.

In Spring they added:

• Innsbruck
• Seville

• Ibiza
• Porto
• Reykjavik

What I didn’t realise until this weekend – when a reader sent me the photograph below – is that British Airways is now allowing passengers to use the new airport-run lounge in Bordeaux.

The old lounge in Bordeaux was a joke. So bad, in fact, that at times BA would hand out airport refreshment vouchers rather than subject passengers to using it.  To call it a cupboard would be offensive to large, expensive cupboards.  Those days are over.

The photo above is of the fairly new InterContinental Bordeaux.  Here is Anika’s review. 

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Our campaign continues though.  These airports have a lounge which BA won’t pay for but you can use a Priority Pass instead:

• Lanzarote ACE
• Catania/Fontanarossa CTA
• Madeira FNC
• Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis HER
• Humberside HUY
• Mykonos JMK
• Olbia/Costa Smeralda OLB
• Palermo/Punta Raisi PMO (landside)
• Paphos International PFO
• Thessaloniki Macedonia International SKG (as of 1st July 2017)
• Split SPU
• Rhodes – Diagoras International RHU
• Tallinn TLL

These airports have a lounge which BA won’t pay for and which only accept cash, not Priority Pass / Lounge Club:

• Brindisi/Casale BDS
• Bari/Palese International BRI
• Cagliari CAG
• Dalaman International DLM
• London City Airport LCY (in the Private Jet Terminal)

There are also a lot of European airports which simply do not have a Business Lounge, but you can’t blame BA for that ….

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