Business Etiquette Master Class: How to properly hit up First Class Airport Lounges solo when travelling in pairs
When travelling with a business companion and only one of
you manage to score access to the airport’s First Class Lounge, it is perfectly
acceptable to quote-unquote “abandon” them in the regular lounge given that:
- You personally take your best shot at sneaking them in, even if you know the plan is doomed to failure,
- You’re
not a lightweight,
- You
need the WiFi to catch up on deadlines, and
- You’ll
smuggle out as many goodies as you can, given that you’re not a
lightweight and your laptop bag has extra space.
The fourth point is known as the
“sharing the wealth” principle and shall be held inviolable.
You should of course have unloaded your laptop bag of everything except the essentials. To not do so would leave you unable to fulfill the most important fourth point, and will also punish you if you have to carry your laptop bag on your back or shoulders any non-trivial distance.
Plus you'll probably have all sorts of sharps which airport security will find and destroy. I don't mean sharps in the biohazard medical waste sense - I'm in the accounting profession, not medicine - but rather the tools of the trade auditors find themselves lugging around. Like scissors. And razor sharp letter openers.