Two More Virgin Atlantic Clubhouses Join Priority Pass!

Thanks for these Priority Pass updates! I really appreciate it!

Quick question for the hivemind.

If you enter with PP during the posted hours, do you have to leave/are you kicked out when those hours end, or can you stay as long as you need to?

Glad to see Priority Pass continually improving their product!

In IAD, this lounge is right next to the BA lounge which is also a PP lounge with limited, morning hours. More is always better, but it's hardly an improvement for IAD.

From my experience at the BA lounge at IAD, during Priority Pass hours only a small portion of the lounge is open. Off limits were much of the business center as well as an enhanced food area. When Priority Pass hours end, the lounge is closed for cleaning so everyone gets kicked out. Later in the afternoon the lounge reopens in full but only for BA passengers, not PP members.

A visit at the LAX Clubhouse during a trip in January left me completely unimpressed...

I can't imagine using this unless the Turkish Airlines lounge at IAD is full. They're about a 2 minute walk apart from each other.

Great news for Newark!

LAX clubhouse now has even more limited hours, now it’s 5am to 10.45 am only.
We only used it once and never again because it is not worth the $28 for a bagel.
Assuming that’s what PP pays clubhouse.

Lucky:

EWR Terminal B is split in 3 concourses all separate security lines. Do you happen to know which one Virgin is located in?

I don't really see how this is an improvement for PP. Its members have become second class citizens at many lounges (especially domestic US), often on hours-long waiting lists to get in, which usually means not getting in at all.

Then a potentially better lounge opens up, but food service will be "severely limited, and they'll ratchet down service to "even worse than what you’d find in a US airline lounge" (your words), and this is "fantastic" news for PP members?

Does not compute.

If we support these lounges with our priority pass fees while they provide close to no amenities during that time, they will only be incentivized to keep offering nothing

I've been to the EWR clubhouse several times and it's in Terminal B international area airside. The other lounge in that area from what I recall is the BA lounge (mainly serving BA and CX.)
Not sure which international flights fly from terminal B from 2pm-6pm but it's probably limited. The only VS flight from EWR is VS2 and it normally departs at 10:30pm.

Priority Pass needs to up its game in DC, but this doesn’t really help. There’s only one lounge at IAD that can be accessed during the late afternoon/evening when the airport is at its busiest - the Turkish lounge which gets hugely overcrowded. Also, no lounges at any hour of the day at DCA, and just one at BWI, not available to those in other terminals. I wish they’d think about partnering with some restaurants as they’ve done in other cities.

I second what Chris and DC-PHLyer said....

All of this just convinces me more and more I would *never* pay PP for a membership directly.