Cathay The Bridge Business Class Lounge
This is the long-standing primary business class lounge for Cathay, steps from your exit when you are on a connecting flight and hit the E side security (which is very common). At the complete other end of the main airport central structure from the main security entrance, once you're past the initial point of entry, the lounge splits into Western food to Asian food sides.Hours
5:00am - 12:30amAirlines Serviced
CathayOne World Airlines
Access Rules
First class or business class on an Oneworld Airline.Emerald or Sapphire status in Oneworld.
One guest of the above.
The Lounge
The Bridge has been here a long time. I don't know if it's called this because there is a bridge over it, or it bridges cultures, or it was just another name in the series (wing, pier, deck, etc.). It has a lot of space, a lot of food (it's primarily about food), and man, even at 6:00am it was pretty busy.Right Side - Western Food
As you enter and are granted access (you hope, right?), you can choose which area to go (don't worry you can wander between both). If you want families with overtired children, mothers looking at you like "What the hell are you doing in here with a camera?" or just want a drink and some bacon? Head to the right.If you want noodles, dumplings, dim sum, less drinks, more judgmental stares at your camera, head to the left side!
The right side has more casual seating areas.
Dining - Right
Other Areas - Right
Next are the seating areas (so busy). The walkway, the bar (which with all the travelers in there was shockingly empty), and storage.Dining - Left
The high end Asian food area. All the fun food you love, I am guessing. I don't eat much of this except General Tsao's, which probably isn't even really Chinese.Other Areas - Left
As with the right side, there is seating, some drinks, but less of each.
Walking down the terminal, you have a choice to go to different legs of it, or look up, and see this
This is how you get betwixt the two sides
In its 80th year, Cathay has many people wearing historical uniforms from their past
Buffet food everywhere, special orders are limited in business class
As you can see though, there is a lot of food
Lots of food, in some ways better selection than the set menu in first
The fancy coffee bar, they can make anything I was able to think of
the dining seating. First lounge is much better in this respect
The tea station in the back
Comfortable seating
Bag storage, I really wish the first class lounges had these
Nobody here, with all the grumpy people I saw, I would think this would be used more
The other dining hall seating area, well one of them
Another one for eating
Waiting for your custom orders of noodles
Dim sum or dumplings? Well, custom ones of whatever they are
I could not identify what was in the steamers
Need a coke? Great. A beer? Oh woe. Wait for the next pic for better options
Wine, a much better selection
There is more seating that this, but it was so busy, I couldn't really photo it
Summary
A lounge away from the noise of outside. I was actually kinda stunned how busy it was as I have a pattern established. Experience two distinct characters between the left and right sides. Food centric to the left, drink and seating centric (yes with food) to the right.As noted before, you can readily transfer between them. Oh and yes, there are showers.