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Plaza Premium Group is the market leader in airport lounge and hospitality operations. It operates over 250 lounges in 70 airports worldwide. The company is jumping on the continued travel boom in Japan with the opening of the City Terminal by Plaza Premium Lounge in Osaka’s Umeda City.
The new, urban lounge concept will open this summer. Travelers will have access to a lounge, baggage delivery and transportation, a travel concierge, foreign currency exchange, and more.
Mei Mei Song, Director of Global Brands and Product Transformation at Plaza Premium Group, said:
Our mission at Plaza Premium Group is to make travel better, and this means literally putting ourselves in the shoes of travelers to offer solutions that conquer pain points and that make the journey as delightful as the destination. Japan is a key travel route to Hong Kong, where we are located, so that means travellers often do short trips to Japan but as the flight times and check-in times are often not perfectly in sync, there is a lot of ‘wasted time’ in the process that can be better spent exploring the culture and tasting Japan. Essentially, we feel there is a better way to travel, where these gaps in the journey can be resolved with our lounge and concierge services in town, making the experience more seamless.”
No other details have been provided, but I’ll provide an update when Plaza Premium releases them.
Anthony’s Take: City lounges are still a fairly unique concept. American Express launched a Centurion Lounge in Manhattan, but there are not too many more examples out there. Looking forward to learning more about this one in Osaka.
(Featured Image Credit: Plaza Premium Group.)
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JCB used to have lounges in Honolulu, Los Angeles and other primarily Asian cities, but they seemed to be more like travel agency offices with maybe a small seating area or so. Sort of like a Citigold lounge.
This sounds like an elevation of that with a takkyubin service.