In my experience, flying from/to Heathrow is no more stressful than the average day at work. If I made something crazy like $10M/year, I might consider paying those fees. As long as my compensation is at the level of mere mortals, my time is not worth even remotely that much.

Even if you're on 300k a year, that's still 1/4th of your monthly salary to stay in a fancy lounge for two hours and avoid a shuttle bus

I flew out of LHR a couple of weeks ago. The security lines were longer than I have ever seen (took ~45m to an hour total, but I forgot some sunblock in my bag and had to wait quite a while for them to search it) but it was hardly stressful. I suppose if you're tight on time and cut things fine this could become a worry but that's avoidable by getting there a bit earlier. The airport staff were pretty good about checking for people on flights that were going to close soon, too. For me spending £2750 + VAT to avoid this is absolutely crazy (it's 5 years' worth of laptops) but perhaps I don't value my time as much as others here.

>People making more than $300k/yr TC aren't exactly a small minority on HN. ... it's really not a crazy price...

Heathrow doesn't serve only HN users, nor only the wealthy, though. I'd wager that £2750 plus VAT is hardly "relatively little money" for the average person traveling through Heathrow.

I make more than that and still think this isn't worth it. I understand flying business on a long haul but you're not exactly saving on traffic, etc. using this service.

That's still a month's rent for a lot of people, why would you spend that on a lounge for a few hours?

I think most people would balk at the price. If it was 30 quid it would be reasonable.

As a crude point of comparison, you'd be buying this service at about 917 euros/hour. With a pretty lax 1600 hours/year you'd have to make almost 1.5M per year to match the rate.