Ranking Airport Lounges
00:00:00.000 | When you think about all these lounges and the categories, the independent ones, the credit card ones, the airline ones, how do you stack rank them?
00:00:06.420 | Is it consistent that certain groupings of lounge types are better than others?
00:00:10.540 | I think on average, the airport run ones tend to be a little bit worse.
00:00:15.120 | They tend to be pretty basic. They tend to be just a little room sometimes.
00:00:19.700 | Even domestically, there are some airports that run their own lounges and they're nothing special.
00:00:24.120 | But if you think about it, it makes sense because airports tend to just take whatever extra space they have and say, hey, how do I generate revenue from this?
00:00:31.520 | And in those cases, you as a traveler are not the customer.
00:00:35.160 | The airlines that might pay a little bit for their premium passengers to use that lounge, they're the customer.
00:00:40.460 | It's usually airports that aren't big enough where airlines will want to operate their own lounges.
00:00:45.920 | Obviously, if an airport is trying to lease out space, the best way is to lease it out to an airline or even to a restaurant, things like that.
00:00:54.080 | But if it's not big enough to support that, they'll just run their own really basic lounge, offer some soft drinks, and that's about it.