A pet peeve of many travellers who spend time in International Lounges, is that the wireless access rules differ from carrier to carrier, even though they may all be apart of a Golbal Alliance. Take Star Alliance for example. United used to only provide access to their Red Carpet Club Members, Air Canada gave everyone access in the Maple Leaf Lounges, then took that benefit away from anyone but their own elites. Lufthansa would only give access codes to their HON members.
I am not sure when exactly the change was made with Lufthansa, and whether it applies world-wide, but they now offer free T-Mobile access in their Senator and Business Lounges at Washington's Dulles International Airport (IAD).
As United now gives anyone who enters the Red Carpet Club a code good for 24 hours access, and Air Canada provides free access again with different speed tiers depending on your status, all is starting to be right in the world of Free Lounge Wifi around the world.
Hotels, such as those run by Starwood and Hyatt also now offer free Internet to their top tier members, so the days of Internet being a premium for those who travel the most are slowly disappearing.
As more airports and most budget hotels are now giving away free access, the list of people and places without free access is slowly shrinking!
Now if we could just get the speeds boosted a little!
