Photos: Cathay Pacific's new Oneworld lounge at Bangkok Airport
By David Flynn, June 9 2015
Cathay Pacific's new lounge at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport is now open – and it'll be a welcome sight for Qantas travellers, who enjoy access to the lounge courtesy of both airlines' membership in the Oneworld group.
Yes, Qantas has its own lounge at Bangkok, but it's a rather tired space compared to the new Cathay Pacific lounge, handily located just around the corner on the same Concourse G.
And with room for some 140 passengers the new Cathay Pacific lounge is almost twice the size of the old one, as the airline has also taken over lounge space vacated by British Airways (and subsequently shuttered its old Concourse D shoebox).
The result is arguably Bangkok airport's best business lounge.
It follows Cathay Pacific's new-look lounge design template which is now in place at Haneda, Manila and will be seen to best effect on June 20th in the airline's new flagship The Pier First Class lounge at Hong Kong.
The vibe is "understated luxury" to create "an environment that helps passengers feel relaxed, engaging the senses and focusing on wellbeing as a core principle," the airline says.
"The overall feeling of the lounge is of a domestic space, more like a living room than an airline lounge."
The dining area features Cathay Pacific's signature The Noodle Bar, which offers a selection of freshly-prepared Asian noodles including wonton noodle soup and tom yam soup, with an authentic Thai breakfast served until 11am.
There's also the self-serve Food Bar, where passengers can enjoy a wide selection of lighter items such as salads, pastries and other desserts.
In addition, freshly blended cocktails and a variety of non-alcoholic drinks are served at The Bar.
Work facilities include three iMac desktops, printing and of course fast and free WiFi.
Next up for Cathay Pacific's lounge make-over program is The Pier First Class at Hong Kong, followed by Vancouver – at the end of this year or possibly early 2016 – and then London Heathrow, which CX exec Toby Smith readily admits "is two generations old now."
Hong Kong's The Pier Business Class will be closed for renovations later this month and is expected to reopen in early 2016.
Read: Cathay Pacific's mod make-over for The Pier Business Class lounge
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David Flynn is the Editor-in-Chief of Executive Traveller and a bit of a travel tragic with a weakness for good coffee, shopping and lychee martinis.
06 Jun 2012
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Classy as. Vitsoe chairs arent cheap!
13 Feb 2011
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The new Cathay lounge in Manila is excellent. This and being in the newish T3 make Cathay my favourite way of returning home to Brisbane. At least until someone restarts direct Brisbane - Manila services.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
13 Sep 2011
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Didn't realise BA had shut their lounge in BKK. Have they relocated it or are they utilising another airile lounge? I was on Qatar airways a few days ago and they shunted me in to one of the Thai airways lounge which is not so nice.
10 Jun 2015
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The new CP Lounge will have to be an improvement, the previous one was tired, small, poor food and drinks selection and no bathrooms (you had to exit and go to the airport toilets). So basically, if they have a bathroom, they will go from one of the worst to one of the better ones outside of Thai.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
01 Apr 2015
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Given Emirates and now Cathay have updated their lounges in Bangkok, I wonder whether Qantas has plans to do so, particularly since the current lounge is rather dated. It would bring Bangkok back up to the levels of the new Singapore, Hong Kong, LAX Business and LAX First lounges. Another reason to do so would be the updated A330s flying in and out of there in the not-too-distant future. Thoughts?
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