An airport lounge is a members-only lounge owned by a particular airline (or jointly operated by several carriers). While anyone who pays the membership fee can join, airport lounges are particularly geared towards business travelers, and most offer private meeting rooms and other business services. Some airlines offer reciprocal privileges to members from other clubs. There is also an album by Blur called Leisure. ... A Boeing 747-400 of Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ...

There are many forms of membership fees. These range from a daily fee to yearly fees or lifetime memberships. Often these fees can be paid with frequent flyer miles. There are programs that offer access to multiple airline clubs like one for holders of the American Express Platinum card. A Frequent Flyer Program is a service offered by many airlines to reward customer loyalty. ... American Express (NYSE: AXP) is a diversified global financial services company headquartered in the United States. ...

Besides offering more comfortable seating, lounges usually provide beverages like coffee, water, soda, juices, beer and other alcoholic beverages. The also provide snacks like fruit, pastries and cheese. They also generally offer television, usually a sports or news channel, newspapers, and magazines. The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids, see Drinking. ... Coffee beans and a cup of coffee Coffee as a drink, usually served hot, is prepared from the roasted seeds (beans) of the coffee plant. ... Water (from the Old English word wæter and the German word Wasser) is a colorless, tasteless, and odorless substance in its pure form that is essential to all known forms of life and is known also as the most universal solvent. ... Soda is a term used for sodium-containing chemical compounds. ... Juice is the liquid naturally contained in plants. ... A typical mug of lager beer, showing the golden colour of the beer and the foamy head floating on top. ... Empty bottles of cachaça, a Brazilian alcoholic beverage. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ... Pastry the name given to various kinds of dough made from ingredients such as flour, butter and eggs, that are rolled out thinly and used as the base for baked goods. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of various animals—most commonly cows but sometimes goats, sheep, reindeer, and water buffalo. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles on various subjects. ...

Most major carriers have one or more lounges in their hubs and additionally in major airports they serve. Two of the most widespread clubs owned by US carriers are American Airlines' Admirals Club and United Airlines' Red Carpet Club. An Airline hub is an airport that an airline uses as a transfer point to get passengers to their intended destination. ... Note: For the arenas named after this company, see American Airlines Arena (Miami, Florida), or American Airlines Center (Dallas, Texas). ... United Airlines Boeing 777 taking off at Schiphol, Amsterdam. ...