Influencer Encourages Stealing Food From Airline Lounges – Delta Should Ban Her
A popular social media influencer offers tips for stealing food from airline lounges…it’s bad advice that should not be followed. I hope Delta bans this passenger from its lounges.
Bad Advice: Influencer Tells Followers To Steal Food From Delta SkyClub Lounge
I won’t name her, but you can see her video below. In it, she offers tips on bringing takeaway containers into an airline or Priority Pass lounge, then loading up so that you will not have to buy food on the plane. Her defense? “There is so much food in the lounges for you to eat…but they only give you a limited time to enter before your flight.”
She adds, “If you’re not taking takeout containers to the airport lounges with you, you are getting ripped off.”
No dear, you are the one ripping off the lounge and endangering lounge amenities for everyone else.
Her video below is filmed at the Delta SkyClub at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Terminal 3. It’s a superb lounge and one that Delta has thoughtfully and carefully invested in. But if people started copying this charlatan, who knows how much Delta (or any other lounge) might have to scale amenities back to compensate.
I’m giving her the notoriety of a post because her toxic advice could ruin the (already limited) lounge experience for you and me.
There are some lounges in which removing food and beverages is encouraged. Think United Club Fly lounges or Capital One Lounges.
But as The Bulkhead Seat points out, Delta explicitly says that food and drinks should not be removed from its lounges:
And doing so in blatant violation of the rules is grounds for being banned. I hope Delta sees her video and bans her from all SkyClubs and Delta One lounges. I realize her video may be more geared toward clicks than actual advice, but because of the injurious effect her advice promotes, I must call it out.
Sure, take a coffee or tea to go when there are to-go cups offered. But leave the food behind. Please don’t bring Tupperware or other takeout containers into an airline lounge. Respect the rules so that we all can continue to enjoy airline lounges the Delta SkyClub at LAX.
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