Fed-up employees at top airline are blowing the whistle on deplorable lounge conditions

Frequent flyers aren’t the only ones who’ve had it with crappy airport facilities.An aviation whistleblower has flagged the revolting conditions at American Airlines’ crew lounges at airports, citing broken furniture, decrepit lavatories and even bed bugs.The watchdog, who goes by @JonNYC, aired these crewmember grievances in a series of viral X posts.These employee quarters generally entail quiet areas outfitted with reclining chairs so flight attendants and pilots can grab some rest between sky shifts, One Mile At A Time reported.However, many of the AA crewmember refuges have fallen into disrepair, per the watchdog, referencing an unnamed crewmember who called the state of the AA lounges at Dallas Fort Worth Airport (DFW) “deplorable.”“Bed bugs found in the C7 room reclining chairs,” @JonNYC exclaimed.

“The bedbug was crawling on a crewmember, thank goodness he saw it!! Tell a friend to tell a friend.”Included was a photo of said pest crawling on the wood floor along with pics of the chairs with the seat cushion covers completely worn away.The X user wrote that they found the conditions particularly deplorable as “pilots use these rooms too.”Not to mention that “the bathrooms are often out of service and [crewmembers] need to use terminal bathrooms,” said the whistleblower while quoting a complaint from another anonymous AA crewmember.Photos showed crumbling and brown ceiling tiles, rusty sinks and messes like a lavatory you’d see in a zombie movie.Also featured in the digital hall of shame was LAX terminal 5, per @JonNYC, who shared pics of the broken and crooked recliners in the airport’s AA luxe lounge.“There is another chair in that room, not in the picture, that won’t stay upright,” they rued.

“It needs to be propped up against the wall.”Unfortunately, other airline lounges don’t seem to have these issues.The watchdog included a quote from an unnamed AA crewmember, who said that the Delta and United Airlines crewr...