British Airways adds lounges access at eight European airports

British Airways has added lounge access at eight more European airports.

Over the last year British Airways has been working hard to add lounge access for eligible customers at European airports where it has no lounge of its own.

There will never be 100% coverage because a few small airports, mainly at holiday destinations, do not have a lounge.  There are other airports, however, where British Airways had previously refused to do a deal with an existing third party lounge.

BA passengers at the following airports will gain lounge access ‘during’ Summer 2019:

• Thessaloniki
• Paphos
• Heraklion
• Dalaman
• Olbia
• Palermo
• Rhodes
• Split

The airports below gained lounge access during 2018:

• Innsbruck
• Bordeaux
• Ibiza
• Krakow
• Seville
• Porto
• Reykjavik

Airports WITHOUT lounge access for BA passengers, but where a lounge does exist, include (and this list may not be 100% accurate, please correct me in the comments):

• Lanzarote
• Cagliari
• Catania
• Madeira
• Mykonos
• Montpelier
• Brindisi
• Bari
• Cologne

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