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The Club America lounge at the Miami airport is a rather sorry place. It’s moderately better than sitting in the terminal. Actually there used to be 2 Club America lounges at the airport, if memory serves — one in terminal F and the other in terminal J. The terminal J lounge appears to have been renamed for LATAM and operated by LAN now. And now I know why. The lounge is actually owned by the airport authority. There was a contract with a private company to run it (in place since 1999). Airlines pay for use of the lounge. 20% of the checks were deposited by lounge employees into their own accounts, instead of the airport authority’s account. In all at least $2.19 million was taken — although the true amount is likely much higher.…

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