Being a passenger with Elite status

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If you travel for business or pleasure, you’ll want a convenient and as far as possible free of complications. If you travel often then you may be a member of one, or even more, airlines frequent flyer club. You may not know what to do with the points that have been obtained, or how to use it. There are several
simple ways to earn profits with the points.

Remain a member with one airline club, there are some incredible benefits, especially when a member of one of the two largest airline alliance that is, the Star Alliance or One World, you can enjoy. As you increase beyond the mile and the more often you travel, the greater the chance you become one of their elite members, with a superior status than ordinary members.

Some will appreciate the airline pilot
Routine their most-traveled (most frequent flyers) to give a gold card (gold card) or increased levels of membership. This course is beneficial, especially when you get it with difficulty (with a flight in economy class). Your superior status, usually, will bring benefits such as adding a few pounds of luggage limits, priority check-in, priority upgrade to class, priority boarding, priority waitlist (and even some airlines began offering immediate confirmation), and the most important is the use of lounges in airport.

Lounge-lounge at the airport is different, some offer food and wine, with shower facilities, workplaces, and even a massage service or a place to play computer games that will help you pass the time. But some have a bad service, or extra services provided only a comfortable chair and welcome drink. Choosing lounge which will be used can be complicated but it is very important for your travel convenience.

There is great misunderstanding in the travel industry, that is when you are told can only use the lounge of the airline you are going traveling. Surely not. You have more choices than you think over this, if you are traveling as a gold card member of the Star Alliance or One World.

For example you are traveling as a gold card member of Royal Orchid Plus (Thai Airlines) which is a member of Star Alliance. As long as you are traveling using the Star Alliance airlines participants then you can use any lounge-lounge under the Star Alliance. You do not have to use airline lounges Thai Airlines just because you use the airline. You can use the lounge-lounge owned by other airlines such as United, SAS, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Varig, Ansett Australia, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, and of course Thai Airlines.

All you need to do is submit a ticket boarding passes that day, the airline is a member of Star Alliance, your gold card, then you will be asked to enter!

This opportunity will give you great choices. For example, Thai Airlines lounge at Hong Kong International Airport is very cool and they provide a good dim sum in the morning, but the food at the end of the day was not so delicious, you can choose to use United’s lounges, which provides fruit and fresh cheeses are delicious. Lounge United also has computer facilities for better and more extensive.

In London, you can not smoke in the lounge of Thai Airlines, but you can do so at a lounge owned by United and SAS. United lounge at Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 is also exceptional, with a complete computer facilities, where smoking is widespread and professional staff and trained. These things allow you to make a choice, if for example you need an internet connection and all the terminals on Thai Airlines lounge in Singapore was full, you can always go to the lounge United to see if there you can get a place.

In general, airlines are not too happy with this practice so often that you use the lounge (if you do not use the lounge of the airline you use) will bill on your airline. But with a gold card that you hold nothing they could do to stop you.

If you feel that your status may increase the level of gold or more, or just want to just make sure you can use certain lounges in your journey, try to find ways to pass the priority uses. We pray, you’ll enjoy a comfortable journey.

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Being a passenger with Elite status