New Aspire lounge, used by British Airways, opens at Belfast City Airport

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• Jacqueline Lester says:

  11 Jul11 July 06:33

  I hope they’ve installed a decent espresso coffee machine and not an imitation Nespresso one like the one in Manchester Airport T1

• Amy C says:

  11 Jul11 July 06:46

  That looks nice, I shall give it a whirl in September when I go to the Titanic Experience.

• TC says:

  11 Jul11 July 06:55

  I was there on the weekend. It’a a really nice space. Lots of plug sockets (not usb) and a door that lets you board your LHR flight without having to leave the lounge. Food wasn’t great but hopefully this will improve.

• VALittleRed says:

  11 Jul11 July 07:03

  I wonder if they offer alcoholic drinks now as when I went in May, they couldn’t apparently

  • Mark F says:

    11 Jul11 July 07:58

    Used the lounge yesterday. Fantastic space and full wet bar. 10/10.

  • Rhys says:

    11 Jul11 July 08:55

    They do. They couldn’t during the renovation due to some licencing thing (it was mentioned on their website).

• Andrew says:

  11 Jul11 July 07:13

  Was there last week – it’s really quite a pleasant lounge. Big enough that it didn’t feel crowded, wide selection of drinks, and perfectly edible food.

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  11 Jul11 July 07:32

  “We believe that history is about to repeat itself at Newcastle, where Aspire is rumoured to be planning an extension into the old British Airways space”

  Mixed feelings on this. Expanding (and refurbishing) the lounge will be a big improvement over the current awful Aspire lounge but I feel the best option would be for BA to reopen a lounge in this space (unlikely I know).

  The airport started construction of a new ‘luxury lounge’ in 2019 but this was pushed during covid, then it appeared to resume and then stopped again. This lounge would be on the upper level where the shops are and would have good views of the airfield.

  • S says:

    11 Jul11 July 07:46

    I believe the ‘new’ lounge is in the former Cheviot lounge area which is a good location if so although must have been shut for well over 10 years now.

    I’d support aspire expanding into the BA area if they refurbish it to this sort of standard.

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      11 Jul11 July 09:48

      It is in the area where the Cheviot lounge used to be but there was extra building work to support it (you can see it if you look up towards that area when boarding the plane) so it must have been intended to be larger than the Cheviot lounge was.

      I only went to the Cheviot lounge once, who ran it?

      Going back even further, there used to be a Flybe lounge where Aspire currently is.

      • S says:

        11 Jul11 July 10:17

        I think it was Servisair but don’t quote me on that.

        • Save East Coast Rewards says:

          11 Jul11 July 10:39

          That sounds right

• Mark says:

  11 Jul11 July 08:15

  I visited yesterday. No problem getting in with priority pass, coffee was a decent bean to cup (although the only decaf option was instant), food was hit and miss (soup was good, chilli was inedible). Decent selection of wines and beer, Prosecco is extra. Nice views of the runway and the BA Heathrow flight pulled straight up to the gate infront.

• Ben Wardill says:

  11 Jul11 July 08:16

  The espresso is a lot better than the Americano from the same machine! Seems to be plenty of alcohol – a few different beers, a couple of wines and various spirits.
  It seems like a nice spot, though it’s not very busy at the moment which always helps.
  Toilets haven’t been finished yet, so it’s back outside for them.

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