Finding Love in the Airport Lounge

[quote] the calmer, semi-exclusive spaces away from the deadening realities of modern air travel

Mary!

From the article: “Brittany Romano, 32, started a long-distance relationship in the JetBlue lounge at J.F.K.”

Fun fact: JetBlue doesn’t have any lounges.

“ Benjamin Schmidt, 29, a New York writer, opened his Grindr app at a Delta lounge in San Francisco and agreed to meet a match at the lounge bar. “We flew back to New York together, with some discreet and playful hand-holding on the plane and flirty conversation,” he said. And then it ended. “It felt like I rented a boyfriend for the day,” Mr. Schmidt said.”

[quote]“Someone who has access to a nice airport lounge likely already checks off a few boxes for you, which could be psychologically more comforting. For example, they are willing to spend the money to enter, they have travel status, they are flying a certain class airfare.”

She sounds like a meretrix.

“ Silas Forest, 29, a creative director in Los Angeles, was lounging through a layover in the Delta Sky Club at Miami airport when he saw a cute guy out of the corner of his eye. They exchanged shy grins and nods, but then it was time for Mr. Forest to go to his gate, two terminals away. “I’m standing in line when I feel a tap on my shoulder, and I turn to find the man. I’m instantly smiling but surprised he found me. My group is called, and I tell him I’ve got to go, but feel the urge to lean in for a kiss. He also leans in and we kiss in front of a bunch of people,” he said. “I boarded my plane grinning ear to ear.”

[quote]Her boyfriend proposed in the same lounge a year later .... But he broke things off before their aviation-themed wedding took place .... Ms. Palmer remains hopeful: “I still feel like I’m going to find my boo, and probably in another airport lounge,” she said.

Good Lord.

These two

[quote]Benjamin Schmidt, 29, a New York writer, opened his Grindr app at a Delta lounge in San Francisco and agreed to meet a match at the lounge bar. “We flew back to New York together, with some discreet and playful hand-holding on the plane and flirty conversation,” he said. And then it ended. “It felt like I rented a boyfriend for the day,” Mr. Schmidt said.

Is everyone quoted in the NYT so money-centered?

The erect bottom with the champagne glass is pretty cute.

My hand-nose-shoe analysis says that both have nice big dicks.

I hate both of them.

[quote]There has always been something magical about an airport love story. “Airports are lawless,” said Natalie Stoclet, 32, a writer and designer based in Mexico City, who once had a flirtation with a man she met in the Iberia lounge at the Madrid airport. “You can have a cocktail at 8 a.m., wear compression socks with no shame and delusionally stare at the departures board, convincing yourself that you could change your flight and start a new life in Paris. Anything goes.”

Agreed. One thing I will give to 'Love, Actually' (or 'Station Terminal's to broaden it to train travel) or 100 other films is that travel is absolutely and obviously a metaphor for new beginnings. A key element to the just two elemental plotlines: a man sets forth on a journey, or a stranger arrives.

Arrival and departure lounges can be boring places to kill time or they can be places rich with promise. People realize or declare love for the first time at airports, they start king distance relationships and contemplate big changes.

If transportation hubs have lost something in their architecture, they remain places of possibility and surprise on a very different scale than, say, an office romance or an online hookup/dating app.

So yeah, I have a soft spot for transportation hubs and their romantic possibilities.

We are supposed to believe that blonde is only 35?

The queens @OP are both bossy shop bottoms, so what do they do when they hook up. Bump pussies?

I saw the article, but didn't read it.

Did I miss anything?

The picture alone was enough to make me nauseous. I know I couldn't handle the article.

And yes, they paid for it.

The two men in the pic resemble and deserve each other. I wish them a long marriage and great happiness. The article fails to mention which airport lounge is best equipped for a VIP service de vidange et d'entretien? I want my dick drained and ass fucked to tide me over my frequent long haul flights.

"make me nauseous"

Oh, dear.

OP

Please don’t link to paywalled articles.

In the Airport Lounge? We should be able to find love here at the Data Lounge. Where's the personals section?

I’ve never found love in airport lounges but I’ve had some banging sex in airport lounge showers.

I can at least say I’ve sucked a dick in an airport lounge. PHL Admirals Club. Ahh the memories.

Sorry R19 how do I get around this again?

A lot of fiction in these stories - some elements of truth - but a lot of fiction as well.

Shame on you NYT. What is this - Seventeen magazine?

Those OP boys are pleasant enough in appearance, but there's less than zero heat to them.

"I love to get dressed up and head to my airport early to lounge around the lounge hoping to meet the man of my dreams."

We used to call these bar flies and bar floozies.

[quote] lounge around the lounge

Hee hee.

The two pictured at OP remind me of the kinds of couples that used to be featured here at the DL when we had a "these guys look alike" troll.

[quote] We flew back to New York together, with some discreet and playful hand-holding on the plane and flirty conversation,”

Translation: We jerked each other off under a blanket.

Yessss!!?? What if it!?

Yesssss!!?? What of it!?

Good catch R2. I looked it up, there aren't any lounges YET but there are plans for later this year, one at JFK and one at Logan.

If I were still flying around all the time, I would go to an airport lounge. But the last Delta Sky Miles CLub I went to didn't feel very club like. THe food wasn't great and there were too many people clanking around for free triangles of plastic cheese and cut fruit.

The OP guys seems a little too precious by half, but I’m happy for them I suppose

[quote]Benjamin Schmidt, 29, a New York writer, opened his Grindr app at a Delta lounge in San Francisco and agreed to meet a match at the lounge bar.

Is "lounge bar" code for "toilet cubicle"?

R33 It’s not 1995 anymore. Airlines lounges, Delta in particular, have massively upped their game.

R35 - that's exactly what I thought - they hooked up in the shower area or bathroom.

R36 - they've upped their game, but they've let WAY too many people in. Anyone with a certain credit card can get in now - it's insane how many people are in lounges, including entire families with kids running amok.

I had often found love in the airport but then it all went to shit. Not I went to shit despite how it looked,

There's too many people in this article. Why did they cut off the one guy's face in the lead photo?

R37 Completely agree. It can feel like a Golden Corral buffet at times.

Much as I appreciate the upgrades, I sometimes miss the simple cheese cubes and snack mix days.