No1 Lounges is coming to Jersey next summer

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• roberto says:

  19 Dec19 December 07:22

  I assume it going to be located on the upper floor where the old Marks and Spencer was. It’s currently an airside space underutilised before the no return doors.

• planeconcorde says:

  19 Dec19 December 07:36

  According to Jersry Airport “Access to the upstairs ‘Atrium’ lounge has been restricted as work on the No1 Lounge begins, ahead of its opening next Summer.”

• Ironside says:

  19 Dec19 December 07:48

  It’s been ten years since last I visited JER, but the upstairs area was my first thought too. There are precious few other availables spaces, especially next to the gates.

• Barrel for Scraping says:

  19 Dec19 December 08:31

  The current JER lounge was the BA lounge for a long time and very oddly they had kept the BA branding long after ceasing to be an official BA lounge. This caused the weird situation at the start of COVID when BA cancelled all third party lounge contracts BA passengers couldn’t use the British Airways lounge without paying or using priority pass. Presumably this is what forced the lounge to remove the BA branding but there’s still clear indications it used to be a BA lounge.

  It does have windows, not in the main bit but in a section that looks like it may have been a smoking section many years ago. It looks like based on the layout that direct boarding from the lounge was possible at one time but no longer seems to be used. Has anyone here boarded direct from the ex-BA JER lounge?

  Maybe after the summer peak is over they can close the ex-BA lounge for a few months to refurbish that. Taking inspiration from Aspire in NCL the ex-BA space could be a mid tier lounge aimed at business class and airline status passengers (do any ‘full-service’ airlines apart from BA operate to JER?)

  • planeconcorde says:

    19 Dec19 December 08:39

    When BA flights from JER used gate 3 then direct access from the executive lounge through to the gate 3 waiting area was available. Currently BA flights are more likely to operate from gate 2 or 10, so direct access isn’t available. They usually call the flight first in the lounge so passengers have the option to reach the gate prior to the general boarding announcement in the terminal. Lufthansa have summer only weekend flights to Germany and they utilise the same lounge.

    • Barrel for Scraping says:

      19 Dec19 December 09:21

      Any idea why gate 3 is not used by BA anymore? Is it used by anyone?

      • planeconcorde says:

        19 Dec19 December 09:54

        Gate 3 does get used at times, depending on the number of aircraft on the ground. I don’t know the official reason for BA preferring gates 2 and 10. However those gates do have a larger seating waiting area, which is split into two rooms. Boarding groups 0 to 3 are directed to the left room. Whereas higher group numbers are directed right. So they are better for holding the larger number of passengers on BA’s aircraft. Gate 2 and 3 are the preferred gates for international flights due to their location near the immigration area.

        • Barrel for Scraping says:

          19 Dec19 December 10:23

          How do international (non-CTA) arrivals work in JER? Do they send you to a different door to enter the international arrivals flow? I’ve only ever arrived on BA which means following the immigration-less CTA route. But I never noticed where international arrivals parked at gate 2 would go.

        • Sam says:

          19 Dec19 December 19:58

          Gate 3 unfortunately has too small a stand to accommodate airbus aircraft, so when the switch was made from 737s to 319s, this forced the change to the gates 2/10.

• planeconcorde says:

  19 Dec19 December 11:08

  International arrivals at gate 2 would enter the terminal building through a different door. Immigration desks are in a small corridor, along side where the gate 2 departure waiting area has a wall. Then rejoined the mixed arrival flow in the wider corridor prior to reaching the baggage belts. Gate 3 international arrivals would enter the terminal building through the same gate 2 international arrivals door.

• Alex says:

  19 Dec19 December 12:05

  The upstairs space is great and I’ve thought for a long time it would be an ideal lounge.

• Sue Bentley says:

  19 Dec19 December 12:11

  Free upstairs viewing deck at Jersey Airport being replaced with “premium” lounge
  News, Top Stories | Published: 44 mins ago | Last Updated: 37 mins ago | By Newsdesk

  The premium lounge. Picture: Ports of Jersey.
  PASSENGERS should prepare to wave goodbye to their free view of the runway at Jersey Airport as Ports of Jersey are replacing the viewing deck with a “premium” paid-for lounge.

  The upstairs atrium is somewhat of a hidden gem for travellers who want to escape the busy terminal to a quieter space.

  But Ports this week announced plans to create a premium catered lounge next year, and following queries from the JEP the organisation confirmed it would be replacing the free space.

• Sam says:

  19 Dec19 December 20:01

  Unfortunately, as we on the ground understand it, the plan is only to maintain one lounge, and that when the contract to run the new upstairs lounge starts, that will be it for both the old lounge and the local company that runs it (who also used to run the check in until BA gave that to Swissport to save money).

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