Star Alliance member Asiana is offering free lounge access to all coach passengers transiting through Seoul for all of 2024. Anyone with an airport transit of less than 24 hours booking their flights through a travel agent can take advantage of access to a Plaza Premium lounge at the Incheon airport.
Access is available for up to 3 hours at:
- Sky Hub lounge located near Gate 29
- Matina lounge located near Gate 11 and near Gate 43
Once your ticket is booked, your travel agent just needs to email their account manager with passenger’s name, Asiana ticket number, record locator, nationality, and email address. The agent needs to indicate whether the lounge pass should be for use on outbound or return. They’ll provide an e-coupon to use at the lounge, and only one coupon will be provided per roundtrip. This is valid only when all segments of a ticket of operated by Asiana.
(HT: Golden Rule Travel)
That’s a good deal. The Matina lounge has great food. Wonder why Asiana wants to foot the bill for this, though…..
Of course, this requires a travel agent involvement, so maybe not so many people will be aware of it.
@Gary — Interesting. The last time we visited the Asiana first/business lounges in Seoul (maybe 6 years ago), they were badly in need of renovating. Do you know if they’ve revovated those lounges?
probably a pretty good indication they are losing high paying passengers that would otherwise use those lounges in light of a decision about the merger with Korean
You thought Plaza Premium was overcrowded before …
Holy cow those are definitely the ones to avoid now when choosing your PP lounge. They are packed out enough as it is.
Tim’s comment makes no sense. But there are probably some stupid stats he’ll spew….
It sounds like this doesn’t apply to tickets booked directly with Asiana. I wonder why? An already captured customer as opposed to a ticket agent customer that would direct the ticket agency toward Asiana in the future? It doesn’t matter for my upcoming return ticket as I have only one hour and 40 minutes between flights and that will probably be spent mostly in the security check line unless that problem has been solved. Even without that perk, Asiana offers great cabin crews and good food even for coach passengers. Asiana is truly a premium airline.
Mr. Mocker,
the EU is supposed to make a decision on the OS-KE merger in Feb. Other major jurisdictions including the US will decide later. It is a big deal in S. Korea. While there is a proposed 2 year wind down period, it is certain that OZ’s losses will accelerate as it comes to a close.
Airlines don’t offer coach comp lounge access and they didn’t build excess capacity to do it. They are hurting.
“Asiana is truly a premium airline.”
Indeed. First time I flew transpacific was on Asiana. It was such an overwhelmingly better experience than I had on domestic flights that I recall joking I’d next fly Asiana for my SFO-JFK flight via SFO-ICN-JFK.
Good luck. 95% of pax won’t get in 😉
A for effort tho, OZ