Cathay is launching a new lounge design when The Wing, First reopens in Hong Kong later this year. Details about the concept and dining areas in this interview with Executive Traveller. One quote from Guillaume Vivet, Cathay’s General Manager of Customer Experience Design, stood out to me:

“We think about how do you deliver good wellness, a good refreshing proposition” Vivet explains, describing this proposition as “something different that achieves more for our customers to be refreshed, to be relaxed, and in the theme of the whole wellness area.”

To me, this is the airport lounge frontier. Look at what Aman is doing with wellness at their resorts: spas, meditation, yoga, saunas, sound therapy. I can’t think of a time these would be more welcome than during a long stopover or delay.