{"id":10211,"date":"2013-12-07T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10211"},"modified":"2013-12-07T12:29:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T17:29:54","slug":"lounge-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/lounge-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Lounge Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/120713_1727_LoungeWars1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-latest-middle-east-conflict-airports\/\">battle for the best airport<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-business-class\/\">best airline seat<\/a> is the battle for the best lounge writes to Scott McCartney:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the highest tiers of air travel the differences between airlines are disappearing \u2013 they all offer incredible experiences.<\/li>\n<li>Instead airlines are trying to attract customers by offering premium lounge experiences on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>At the best lounges you can find concierges who can score theater and dinner reservations in locations across the world.<\/li>\n<li>In Frankfurt elite passengers are driven to their airplane in luxury cars.<\/li>\n<li>British Airways&#8217; Concorde Room has museum-quality art and leather seats taken from the now decommissioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/whatever-happened-to-the-concorde\/\">Concorde<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Other lounges offer designer haircuts, iron service while passengers shower, and wine bars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about what a First Class ticket on an international airline can get you, as well as why domestic air travel in the US is far less glamorous and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303497804579238064016097606\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303497804579238064016097606\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the battle for the best airport, and best airline seat is the battle for the best lounge writes to Scott McCartney: On the highest tiers of air travel the differences between airlines are disappearing \u2013 they all offer incredible experiences. Instead airlines are trying to attract customers by offering premium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/120713_1727_LoungeWars1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10214,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211\/revisions\/10214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}