More Comfortable Travel Airline travel is exhausting, especially when you have long layovers. I don't travel enough to justify several hundred dollars in annual fees.
Many clubs also offer complimentary drinks, a place for a short nap and office facilities.
It's customary for a company to send staff members to training classes to upgrade their technical skills. While it's good business to provide staff with training, shipping them off to a class they will share with a dozen or so others may be the wrong approach. That means a considerable portion of class time is spent offering attendees information many neither need nor want. And the training will take much less time. The better and more widely you're known in the business world, the more business you're likely to attract.