Good morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, February 18, and here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.
At least 10 new lounges are due to open at major U.S. airports in the near future — growth that is putting pressure on operators to ensure that airport lounges remain an exclusive experience. Contributor Harrison Pearce explains how the industry is looking to restore lounge exclusivity.
Pearce writes that many lounges, once genuinely exclusive, now feel like a slightly fancier boarding gate waiting room as more passengers become eligible to enter. But JetBlue in particular is taking steps to make its first-ever lounges at JFK and Boston a…
