Oneworld airline alliance will open a oneworld-branded lounge at
South Korea’s Incheon International Airport in January, the first of
several openings worldwide under consideration.
The oneworld Seoul lounge is located at Terminal 1, which hosts
flights by seven of the group’s 13 member airlines: American Airlines,
Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Malaysia Airlines Qantas, Qatar Airways and Sri
Lankan Airlines.
Airline alliance rivals Sky Team and Star Alliance already operate branded lounges at several airports worldwide.
Oneworld is targeting branded lounges at airports where its members
do not have a big individual presence, but multiple oneworld airlines
fly into the same airport, many with daily flights.
The Oneworld lounge at Seoul Incheon has been built in space
previously occupied by Jeju Air, which closed its ‘JJ Lounge’ after the
pandemic hit in 2020.