Swissport and Airport Dimensions have introduced plans so as to add two amenities below the No1 Lounges portfolio at London Luton airport.
Firstly let’s take a step again and have a look at the background to this. In 2021 Airport Dimensions (a subsidiary of Collinson – proprietor of the Precedence Cross model) fashioned a three way partnership with Swissport to amass No1 Lounges.
A Clubrooms lounge (a part of the No1 Lounges portfolio) had opened in 2019 at London Luton airport, however this closed in 2020 following the onset of Covid-19, and didn’t initially kind a part of the above settlement. It has remained closed since then.
In the meantime there may be an Aspire Lounge at Luton airport, which reopened in 2020 following renovation and has been working since. Enterprise Traveller final visited this lounge in 2017.
Airport Dimensions has now confirmed that each of the above areas will function below the No1 Lounges portfolio from subsequent 12 months.
The present Aspire Lounge shall be renovated and open below the My Lounge idea in summer time 2024, providing 155 seats and a self-service pantry, with design “impressed by loft-style dwelling”.
A spokesperson for Airport Dimensions has confirmed that the Aspire lounge “will stay open as the identical facility till work commences to redevelop the house right into a My Lounge”.
And work may also start “imminently” on the previous Clubrooms, with the house reopening as a No1 Lounge in the direction of the tip of this 12 months. It’ll have a capability for 70 friends, “and supply a extra premium expertise, in quite a lot of completely different seating to stress the trendy pre-departure expertise with flexibility and selection”. There shall be a buffet with cold and warm dishes, and a totally tended bar.
The SwissportALD partnership at the moment operates 12 lounges within the UK, throughout Birmingham, Gatwick and Heathrow airports. These embrace amenities below the No1 Lounge, My Lounge, Clubrooms, Membership Aspire and The Gateway manufacturers.
Commenting on the information Shaun Weston, managing director of No1 Lounges, a SwissportALD Holdings firm, stated:
“We’re delighted to have been chosen because the airport lounge supplier at London Luton Airport, including to our rising UK community of No1 Lounges.
“We’re excited to deliver our distinctive model of fashionable journey experiences to LLA, which shall be accessible for everybody.
“The crew at No1 are dedicated to growing lounge areas at LLA with a powerful sense of place and delivering distinctive visitor expertise, design and luxury for passengers to take pleasure in earlier than they fly.”