Vivienne Park

Vivienne spent eight years at a top-three management consulting firm advising mid-tier US carriers on hub operations before deciding she’d rather write about airports than fix their boarding processes. She’s based in Brooklyn, holds Delta Platinum on legacy status that she suspects she’s earned through stubbornness alone, and won’t stop telling anyone who’ll listen that the best lounges in the world are in Asia, the worst are in continental Europe, and the most unfairly criticised are at LGA.

She writes for airport.flights as a paid freelance contributor, usually two pieces a month, focused on the US northeast and on lounge access strategy. Her beat: the operational reality behind the published timetables. If an airline says ninety minutes is a legal connection at JFK, she’ll write about the dozen things that have to go right for that to be true.

When she’s not writing she’s at one of the three NYC airports, on a Delta flight she’d rather not be on, or in a coffee shop near her apartment in Park Slope pretending she’s not pricing out a points redemption to Tokyo.