{"id":9857,"date":"2024-07-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2024-07-01T23:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T05:34:46","slug":"the-value-of-your-time-lounge-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/the-value-of-your-time-lounge-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Diversion: The Value of Your Time, Lounge Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/unitedairlines\/comments\/14yy4cw\/how_early_can_we_get_into_lounges\/\" class=\"ek-link\">extremely<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/delta\/comments\/11my2im\/me_waiting_outside_the_lounge_3_hours_and_4\/\" class=\"ek-link\">common<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/frontierairlines\/comments\/1b4am8j\/came_early_to_get_food_and_hangout_in_a_lounge\/\" class=\"ek-link\">people<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AlaskaAirlines\/comments\/15puct5\/how_early_is_too_early_for_going_to_the_lounge_on\/\" class=\"ek-link\">arrive<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/americanairlines\/comments\/10clyce\/lounge_access_more_than_3_hrs_before_flight\/\" class=\"ek-link\">early<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/american-express-membership-rewards\/2002980-centurion-lounge-crowding-access-limited-3-hours-before-flight-departure-4.html\" class=\"ek-link\">possible<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/british-airways-executive-club\/2077524-how-early-can-i-get-through-security-lounge.html\" class=\"ek-link\">visit<\/a> an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/articles\/maximizing-lounge-access-how-soon-before-my-flight-can-i-check-into-the-lounge.html\" class=\"ek-link\">airport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/emirates-skywards\/2069324-earliest-i-can-check-into-airport-use-first-class-lounge.html\" class=\"ek-link\">lounge<\/a>. Since we&#8217;re often gamers and manufactured spenders around here, and since we&#8217;ve talked about a <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/wednesday-diversion-wheres-the-line-2024-edition\/\" class=\"ek-link\">minimum monetary value for our time<\/a>, we should apply the same logic to airport lounges when we&#8217;re departing from our home airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you&#8217;re an in-person spender, a few trips to Kroger, Staples, your local grocer, and Walmart can be done in a couple of hours and earn you (hopefully) a few hundred bucks or the equivalent in points<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you&#8217;re an online spender, the time value of money probably varies a lot more, but a couple of hours of investigation might open up a new channel that&#8217;s worth thousands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re showing up to a home airport lounge three hours before you&#8217;re flight, I&#8217;d suggest you consider how much the cheese cubes, bottom shelf gin, and chewy slightly-overcooked chicken breast are actually worth to you. Look, I don&#8217;t want to yuck your yum &#8211; I get that a mental break might be worth the spoils from days of gaming. But, if you find yourself in the lounge saying &#8220;now what?&#8221; after you&#8217;ve been sitting for 10 minutes, perhaps consider using the early lounge time to earn something or learn something instead, and you can use some of that to buy yourself a nice meal that hasn&#8217;t been sitting under a heat lamp for six hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*None of this advice applies if you live in Tokyo and regularly have access to the JAL F lounge, you&#8217;re in Frankfurt and regularly flying Lufthansa F, or you live in LA and have regular access to the Qantas First lounge. All of you get a pass. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"348\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-5.png 348w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-5-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-5-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Concept for new AA Admiral&#8217;s club pre-flight meals at the future, Lubbock TX club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s extremely common for people to arrive as early as possible to visit an airport lounge. Since we&#8217;re often gamers and manufactured spenders around here,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}