EXCLUSIVE: Negotiations for Priority Pass lounge in Terminal 5 ‘well advanced’

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• Will says:

  3 Mar3 March 06:39

  Excellent news. I think k No 1 do accept Lounge Club cards. Certainly they did at LGW last August.

• Alex Fisher says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:27

  Could the fourth applicant be BA themselves? It’s obvious that they need more lounge space.

  • Calchas says:

    3 Mar3 March 23:14

    BA are already in negotiations with HAA to extend their existing lounge premises.

    • Calchas says:

      3 Mar3 March 23:18

      To add to this, the information is available on the Heathrow Airport website buried somewhere in their annual reports and annual plans for building projects for the coming year. There is not much information aside from something like “Terminal 5 principal airline tenant requires additional lounge space in T5A: High priority. Budget: Unknown” and I suppose it could be wrong or out of date.

  • Jimmy says:

    4 Mar4 March 14:37

    Not much point expanding the lounge space when the lounge lizards themselves are being culled.

    • tony says:

      4 Mar4 March 21:35

      This could however be a classic left-hand/right-hand issue. These latest BA enhancements smack of a lack of joined up thinking so I certainly wouldn’t be surprised to learn that one department was trying to expand lounge space whilst another was simultaneously trying to reduce access numbers.

      One think I’ve learnt in the past couple of decades at the sharp end is that businesses are nowhere near as smart as we might like to think they are.

• Farabi says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:36

  Just checked lounge club site and no1 traveller do accept lounge pass members. I’ve used this lounge at Gatwick quite a few times with my lounge club card from Amex gold. Only issue is that you need to book in advance which cost £5!

  • andystock says:

    3 Mar3 March 08:07

    You cant use lounge club at no 1 LHR T3 but is accepted at all other no 1 lounges.

  • Rob says:

    3 Mar3 March 08:21

    Clarified the text to say that No 1 at Heathrow does not accept Lounge Club.

    • James says:

      3 Mar3 March 14:21

      Oddly I used a lounge club card at LHR T3 in December?

      • Rob says:

        3 Mar3 March 14:44

        It’s not on the LC website!

        • Tim says:

          4 Mar4 March 09:05

          It used to be on the website. My most recent visit to T3 though I had the card refused and was directed to the Servisair one.

• pjh says:

  3 Mar3 March 08:28

  In addition to Amex and direct PP subscription NatWest Private Banking accounts give a top level PP card. As I’ve just started travelling for work in Y again this has proved very useful.

• Dave H says:

  3 Mar3 March 08:36

  Slightly off topic but did a positioning flight with SAS from Man to Oslo (yep one of the cheap club world flights to Oz) tried to use my priory pass at the two lounges, one stated the PP card was not being accepted for the foreseeable and the other was ‘full’.

• Oh! Matron! says:

  3 Mar3 March 08:45

  To be honest, I find the Galleries lounge as appealing as a regular service air lounge. There’s nothing spectacular at all about it, especially that they still serve the gloop. Not only that, THERE’S NO DESSERT! Cookies do not a dessert make The plaza premium is a different story 🙂

• Luke says:

  3 Mar3 March 09:04

  Amex plat comes with 2 PP cards?

  • joe says:

    3 Mar3 March 09:11

    The supplementary plat gets one too. I suppose if you wanted more, it would be cheaper to pay the £170 fee for additional plat supplementary cards rather than buying more pp.

    One question, though: the article says that you can get 4 people in to a lounge with two pp. I know you can take a guest in each which I guess is what it means, but am I right in thinking there is a £15 fee for the guest?

    • Susan says:

      3 Mar3 March 09:43

      Amex absorbs the first guest charge – the lounge charges PP which charges Amex which doesn’t charge you. Subsequent guests are charged at £15 which will appear on your Amex account.

      I queried a guest charge a few years ago with Amex which got swiftly removed – still feel guilty that I realised later I’d had two guests that visit (one usually had his own PP card) so charge was perfectly legit.

    • Brendan says:

      3 Mar3 March 09:46

      No, you are allowed 1 guest for free with each card

    • SimonSchus says:

      3 Mar3 March 11:24

      I thought I’d clarify something above based on something that was posted above given I had a conversation with AMEX a while ago.

      When I asked AMEX, I was told that I could indeed purchase a second Platinum-coloured supplementary card on my AMEX Platinum at a cost of £170 (i.e. I already had my main card, and already had a supplementary Platinum card for my partner – I was asking about getting a second supplementary card for my parents).

      However,they told me that the Priority Pass is only available to the main cardholder and the first supplementary cardholder. Even if I paid the £170, I would not receive a Priority Pass for my parents as the second supplementary cardholders.

      This is what they told me, although I have no idea if this varies in experience as I decided that £170 would be worth it. I’d love to be wrong but this is what they told me about 3 months ago.

      Simon!

      • SimonSchus says:

        3 Mar3 March 11:26

        *as I decided that £170 wouldn’t be worth it

• Adam says:

  3 Mar3 March 09:09

  Sorry for adding to this going of topic but I was hoping i may be able to ask for a bit of guidance from more experienced travellers.

  I am flying out of Gatwick in the early hours of the morning and thought that it might be worthwhile to access a lounge to make the wait a bit nicer.

  I have a Lounge Club card that I recieved with my AMEX Gold card and as I understand it, I have two Lounge entrances for free and can then buy more with it for £15? (can’t remember the exact figures) what I am not sure about is how I actually go about it as I have never been in a lounge before. There are actually three of us going (Including a child but I have checked the website and it says that children are allowed as long as they are with parents and stay in family areas.) Can I just turn up and hand over my Lounge Card and all three of us can get in? or do I have to book in advance saying that I am using the Lounge Club Card? Is there a maximum amount of people I can pay for on a Lounge Club card?

  Thanks for any advice you can give.

  • RT says:

    3 Mar3 March 09:25

    Normally, you just turn up and handover the lounge card and they’ll deduct the no. of free passes remaining from your card. Then off you go 🙂

  • Rob says:

    3 Mar3 March 10:44

    Hand over your Lounge Club card. A £15 fee for the 3rd person will be charged to your Amex if the lounge charges for kids. The lounge will not see that you are paying (or indeed that the first two are free) – all they see do is swipe your Lounge Club card and enter ‘3’ (or ‘2’ if kids are free) as the number of visitors.

    Note that No 1 Traveller at Gatwick is often full and you may be turned away – although that is unlikely at the crack of dawn.

    • Adam says:

      3 Mar3 March 11:32

      Thanks for the advice,

      i am hoping they will have space as I am going to arrive about 04:30 which will hopefully be before too many people are up and about.

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