Welcome to Business Traveller Asia-Pacific’s first issue of 2019 – and the first put to bed by me, your new editor. Our deputy editor Craig Bright was uninspired by Air China’s International Business Lounge in Beijing (page 65). Not only did security treat him rudely, but the lounge was overcrowded.
This problem seems to extend to other airports in China. A Shanghai-based executive, who flies on average two return trips a month on Chinese domestic carriers, tells me he finds China Eastern’s Shanghai lounges in both Hongqiao and Pudong airports to be “always packed”.
“All lounges in China have this problem: too crowded, and seats and facilities are not properly maintained,” he says.
Okko Kuivalainen, the subject of our “Air Miles” interview (page 14), recently travelled to Guilin and tried the lounge at…
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Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, January - February 2019