Select Priority Pass members can now visit Jabbrrbox airport workspaces with their membership at several airports. Let’s go over the details…
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I'd be very curious to know how many/what percentage of PP members purchase it directly vs getting it as a card benefit.
Ben, are you sure that access to the booth is "restricted"? I'd expect it to be available to all lounge users, free for some and chargeable for others. But your information makes it pretty clear that only a paid PP member can get the door to open.
Why would anyone have such an expectation? Desire, yes. Expectation, no. Ben stated that certain new PP benefits are for those who have a direct/paid PP membership. This appears to be one of them.
Why? That's easy. To monetize the booths and profit from the investment. To me, it makes more sense they'd invite me to pay to use the booth, rather than forbidding entry outright.
If you're saying *paid* access to those who have PP via a credit card, agreed.
"Frustratingly this is only available to those who purchased a Priority Pass membership, and not to those who got one through a premium credit card; this is a trend we’ve seen lately with some new additions, as those who have a Priority Pass membership through a credit card are increasingly “second class” members"
No surprise because of the deal they have with the credit card providers. Perhaps talking about that would be a key point to why these perks are increasingly being pushed toward paid memberships.
It's unclear why someone would expect that a membership the CC company bought at a cut rate would include all the newly added benefits of a full-fare membership, especially where such an approach would cannibalize PP's own sales.
Having this free for all PP members would also fill up all the vendor's slots rather than having them open to cash-paying customers. It's understandable that the vendor would want to charge fairly close to retail price for that, that PP isn't getting enough from the CC companies for that, and that most CCs aren't charging enough of an annual fee to justify that benefit.
I have no interest in sitting in a cramped cubicle. However, I am disturbed to find out Priority Pass is discriminating against members via credit card.
Airport lounge access is the primary benefit of travel rewards cards. If my bank allows Priority Pass to turn me away from a member lounge, I will be cancelling the card.
Too my knowledge Priority Pass doesn't sell a membership to the public that includes unlimited visits.
I have been to these in Austin and they are nice, but small. The best part of these is that it muffles the entire sound at the loud terminal.