Date set for the new Aspire lounge at Manchester Airport Terminal 2

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• paul says:

  19 Oct19 October 10:15

  Am I in the minority that most Priority Pass lounges are just ok? Even pre covid they are just a quiet place to wait. If you are a drinker great but otherwise it’s a pretty dire experience.

• MYSELF says:

  19 Oct19 October 11:02

  “Skytrax is voted for by real people” – OMG, Stopppppp, you’re too funny. Oh wow that was HILARIOUS.

  Has the news not reached HfP HQ that the awards are brought and paid for. (( “Allegedly, for legal reasons as they as an organisation are weirdly litigious over the subject))

  LH won “Best Business Airline” based on a product that at that time wasn’t even fitted, and as it’s turned out several years later STILL hasn’t been put in a single plane.

  The entire setuo has been a rolling joke amongst FFs for a number of years now.

  “Must do better” is about the only thing I can assign to this article and tbh I’m somewhat concerned this even passed editorial oversight at an organisation such as HfP

  • Mike says:

    19 Oct19 October 11:26

    Obviously, I have no comment about Skytrax and their methodology.

    It’s common for a lot of awards to be pay-for-play, pay to enter, buy table at awards etc. The most egregious are when the judges have a consultancy gig of improving your business in that area i.e. you employ them to make your business a great place to work and enter next year’s Best Place to Work Ever Awards which they are on the judging panel (they are on the judging panel because they created the awards, cough). This is common for some of the pressure group charities too… Go to charity, pay for their “training”, get their “plan” to make your company great for minority A, enter awards for Best place to work for minority A, get number xth for best place to work for minority A, put badge on website, how progressive you are….

    Obviously, none of that applies to Skytrax as it’s voted for by real people.

    • Nick says:

      19 Oct19 October 11:39

      Indeed. Or like the Skytrax ‘airline ratings’ where airlines have the ‘additional voluntary option’ of paying for reviewers to travel, and as a result know exactly which flights they’re on, so they can cherry pick their best crew (and why not throw an additional couple of crewmembers on those flights too, plus some HQ managers in crew uniform, ‘just because’…)

      But we don’t know any airlines that would stoop to those levels, do we?!

  • Rob says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:37

    The star ratings – which we said ourself in a recent article are, ahem, bizarre and not voted for – are totally separate from these.

• marcw says:

  19 Oct19 October 11:59

  Yes. Turkish, 3* airline.

  • Aston100 says:

    19 Oct19 October 22:09

    And Easyjet was 4* at the same time IIRC.

• Sam G says:

  19 Oct19 October 14:22

  I think so – can’t think of / see any reference to any BA coded flight / ticket that wouldn’t earn you TPs regardless of the metal

  The one that catches people out occasionally is a OW code on a non-partner flight (except Qantas) – Cathay code on Air New Zealand I think is one

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