When you achieve a certain airline tier or a part of their lounge program , the first place you want to go once you get to the airport is to the usual serenity of the airline lounge. Airlines worldwide have installed lounges at their home and destination airports, where they can treat their most loyal customers.
While this idea isn't new, several airlines offer direct lounge-to-gate access. But what does this mean? Lounge-to-gate access is where customers visiting the airline lounge can board from the lounge directly to the gate nearby, bypassing the lines of general passengers waiting in the terminal.
This for lounge passengers means they can spend more time in the airline lounge, boarding at the very last minute, or they could even be first on the aircraft and score the best overhead luggage space for their personal belongings.
Direct boarding access for lounge members may differ from airport to airport and the airline you travel with. An example is in Honolulu at Daniel K. Inouye International HNL. Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways operates its checker Airbus A to the Hawaiian airport and introduced a lounge where passengers can board directly from the lounge.
The ANA lounge is located on Terminal 2, on the third floor. When boarding takes place, there are two jet bridges from the terminal to the aircraft, one serving the upper deck and one serving the lower deck. General passengers boarding from the main airport terminal board from the lower level, while those in the ANA lounge board to the upper deck.
