@jscholes Disability assistance is meant to make up for the deficit that comes from trying to use the service with said disability, essentially trying to get the traveler's experience back to baseline. At least, that's how I see it. It's an accommodation, not a luxury. I'm not opposed to having something extra as a perk of paying for a higher seat class, but it would really have to be 100% extra, never something that was required by anyone, otherwise it immediately becomes gatekeeping to those who need it. It would be interesting to have this conversation with examples. I wonder what inspired this question.

@jscholes @simon That's a tricky one. I personally rarely get tickets above coach/economy because the benefits often don't seem worth the expense, but I could see how someone who does shell out for such a ticket would want to get the most out of it. I'd say, at the very least, having the assistance personnel direct you to the specific lounge would be what I would expect, but this gets tricky in some places. At Schiphol, for example, it's policy that particularly visually impaired passengers should not ever be left alone; you get placed in a waiting room at the assistance reception until about an hour before departure, at which point someone whisks you through security and passport control until you get to the gate at which point they wait until they can board you. In that flow, a lounge doesn't seem feasible at all, whereas in the US it's anyone's guess when you get dropped where by who, at which point I could see it working