airlinetrends.com ( a website we warmly recommend ) reports that Delta Air Lines has just opened a new café concept at four Delta Sky Club lounges at New York JFK Airport. The new full-service cafés offer made-to-order breakfast, sandwiches, salads, small plates and desserts for purchase, as well as premium beverages. Meals are USD10-15 and premium drinks [...]

Amsterdam Schiphol has opened a new gate at the airport’s G-Pier that is intended to make the time passengers spend just before departure as pleasant as possible. The so-called ‘Innovative Gate’ resulted from a collaborative venture between Schiphol and a large number of other parties. Philips played a key role by providing its expertise in creating ‘ambient experiences’, [...]

Cranky Flyer seems to be very happy about the choice Lufthansa did for refurbishing its Munich lounge : Let’s say you’re flying on a German airline and you’re riding in style up in business class. What would you like to see in the lounge before you go? That’s right, a German beer garden. And now [...]

A very nice video about Air France’s First Class Product “La Première”.

While the majority of BA’s Heathrow flights now depart from T5, there are several short-haul services which operate from T3 (Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Helsinki, Vienna and Malaga). On October 29 BA will also move its long-haul operations to Sydney, Bangkok and Singapore from T4 to T3. As a result the carrier opened a Galleries lounge [...]

German carrier Lufthansa has opened a new lounge within Munich airport’s Terminal 2, for premium members of its Miles and More programme. The 700sqm Senator lounge opened today (September 1) in the airport’s EU departures area, and is part of a €150 million upgrade programme for new and existing lounges worldwide between now and 2013. [...]

Etihad Airways has released details of its forthcoming lounge at Heathrow T4, which will open at the end of September. Facilities will include individual treatment rooms with facials, foot and leg massages being offered by Six Senses Spa, and an open kitchen with “a selection of foods from around the world”. Read more on businesstraveller.com [...]

Iberia has completed the refurbishment of its three lounges at Madrid’s Terminal 4, as part of its €150 million “client service improvement initiative”. The carrier has employed Michelin-starred Spanish chef Sergi Arola to create new food and beverage offerings in the Dali, Goya and Velazquez lounges, including buffet choices such as gazpacho, salads, omelettes and [...]

Bmi, the number one airline out of London Heathrow’s Terminal 1, will launch a pre-flight Lounge Dining service for Business Class customers flying on bmi’s evening flights to Moscow and Tel Aviv. Customers with flights to Tel Aviv or Moscow can enjoy three-course meals in the new bmi international lounge – bmi Number One Heathrow [...]

If you’re traveling from London’s Heathrow Airport aboard Delta Air Lines or one of its SkyTeam partners, you’ll soon be able to take advantage of a futuristic and luxurious new lounge that looks like something out of “The Jetsons.” Delta Air Lines and the Air France KLM group unveiled the two-level minimalist styled lounge —- [...]