Three British Airways airport lounges will reopen on Monday

There is good news for readers who have been missing their British Airways regional lounges. Three sites are due to reopen on Monday.

There is also news on what is happening at Newcastle and Manchester.

From Monday, priority boarding will also return.

From Monday, this is the position outside Heathrow:

Aberdeen Airport

The British Airways lounge, pictured above, reopens on Monday.

Belfast City Airport

After a break, British Airways passengers can once again access the Aspire lounge in the airport.

Edinburgh Airport

The British Airways lounge reopens on Monday.

Glasgow Airport

The British Airways lounge reopens on Monday.

Jersey Airport

After a break, British Airways passengers can once again access the independent lounge in the airport.

London Gatwick Airport

The British Airways lounges, above, in the South Terminal are still closed, with the few remaining BA flights departing from the North Terminal. It is unclear if British Airways will resume services from London Gatwick or not (see this article) due to the need to protect landing and take-off slots at Heathrow.

Manchester Airport

The British Airways lounge is permanently closed. This article has a few photographs of the British Airways Manchester lounge if you want a reminder of how it was.

British Airways passengers are now using the Escape lounge in Terminal 1.

Newcastle Airport

The British Airways lounge is permanently closed and has already been stripped out.

The oneworld website, before it was taken down, was recently showing the Aspire lounge as being available for British Airways passengers. We do not know when this arrangement will start.

Which British Airways lounges are open at London Heathrow?

The current situation at Heathrow will be unchanged from Monday as far as we know:

• Galleries Club South and Galleries Club North are open at peak times

• Galleries First is open at all times, with Business Class passengers being allowed to use it when Galleries Club South and North are closed

• The Concorde Room (pictured above, before BA sold off the artwork!) is closed but a temporary lounge for ticketed First Class passengers and qualifying Gold Guest List members has opened on the terrace of Galleries First

• Galleries Club in the ‘B’ satellite remains closed

The lounge in Terminal 3 is also closed, as is the entire terminal, along with the Terminal 5 Arrivals Lounge. Whilst Terminal 3 reopens on Thursday, there are no plans for British Airways to return at this point.

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