This Tinder-like app encourages people to hook up in airport lounges

There are plenty of shameless tricks to gain access to airport lounges, but the most shameless of them all might be swiping right for someone you'd normally swipe left for, just because you want to get into the Delta Sky Club. That's the unapologetic aim of Lounger, which is the Tinder of the airport lounge world.

The new app allows people who don't have lounge access to rendezvous with those who do, by scoring that lucky lounge lizard's free guest pass. It's just an added bonus if the strangers look as hot as they appear in their profile pictures. Or if they look remotely like their pictures.

Lounger claims that a host can invite someone into the lounge purely to show kindness to a fellow traveler, without the obligation to interact with each other. But that would be like buying drinks for the hot girl (or guy) at the bar, not because you're trying to talk to her, but because it makes you happy to spend money on a stranger. On the guest side, Lounger allows chumps like me (who once failed to get into a lounge by crying about my dead fictional dog) to log on and swipe right on everyone, just so we can see what's on the other side of that closed lounge door.

The app's website states that Lounger's purpose is to "meet and mingle or just do a favor to other passengers." (Emphasis ours). We're going to assume that's either a typo or just blatant honesty.