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Airport lounges: how did they get so horribly, competitively decadent?
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High-end cocktails, nap pods, waffle stations, tapas attendants, sashimi bars and brutalist art. The airlines’ battle to please the 1% is getting increasingly bizarre Name: Airport lounge wars. Age: American Airlines opened the first airport lounge in 1939 . Continue reading...
High-end cocktails, nap pods, waffle stations, tapas attendants, sashimi bars and brutalist art. The airlines’ battle to please the 1% is getting increasingly bizarre Name: Airport lounge wars. Age: American Airlines opened the first airport lounge in 1939 .
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