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Airport Lounges Prep for the Return of a Healthier Breed of Business Traveler

Matthew Parsons
Pelotons at a Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse

Photo Credit: Virgin Atlantic's Clubhouse at London Heathrow offers the use of Peloton bikes. Virgin Atlantic

Skift Take

This could be a long-term shift in behavior, but don't rule out more corks popping if international corporate travel, and all its paid-for perks, fully bounces back.

There may be bad behavior at 35,000 feet, but there’s a calmer atmosphere at ground level. Business travelers waiting around in airport lounges are proving to be healthier compared to before the pandemic, and airlines are reacting. Even those people who bought Pelotons during lockdown now get to keep on pedaling. It’s a sign of the times for Virgin Atlantic’s new head of Clubhouses. The airline recently struck a deal with the exercise bike maker, with airline partner Delta Air Lines poised to install them across its U.S. lounges too.

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“The big trend is around health and wellbeing. A lot of lounges paid lip service to the idea of it, b

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