With certain rare exceptions max you should wait for an airline lounge is probably 10 minutes, lotta sunk cost fallacy on display, and conditional on there being a wait it’s often more crowded and less pleasant inside than in increasingly nice public airport spaces.
Silver was replying to yet another photo showing a long line outside a Delta club. Go to any of their hubs and you’ll see the same soon enough.
I think they blew this aspect of the American Express deal. Even after limiting visits for most cardholders, there’s clearly still too many people with too much access. The Centurion lounges are also overcrowded.
You can make the lounges bigger, but how much bigger, in how many places, and how many years later?
Credit to American where it’s due: they have the right access policies in place. Charlotte aside, you rarely see lounges this crowded.
