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Business Wars Daily

The New Geography of Competition: Airlines Invest Millions to Upgrade Airport Lounges

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today is Friday, August 23, and we’re looking at Delta vs. United. 

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The From Wondry. I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily. Happy Friday, my friends.

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The latest competitive battleground between airlines isn't in the air. It's on the ground, in the airport lounge. Yes, over the last few years, we've all been traveling more and more,

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and airports are getting more crowded. That makes the good old-fashioned airline lounge look like a

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pretty attractive place to hang out during a layover, except that the airport lounge isn't so

1:29.1

old-fashioned anymore. Today's lounges tend to be posh, beautifully decorated spaces, with a

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growing variety of new amenities intended to attract well-heeled travelers. They may feature showers,

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spas, celebrity chef design, menus, meditation rooms, and even children's play areas.

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Even the idea that children could enter these once-walled-off clubs is very different since the traditional club was geared for men.

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Yes, men.

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Traveling on business.

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