CyberFunk

Sorry to hijack this thread, but have a return trip YYZ->NRT-> HKG, HKG->NRT->YYZ

Will my Canadian Amex Plat get me into the lounge at NRT or HKG? Will be flying with ANA and Air Canada.

sbm12

I disagree. Just having a CO ticket number won't help, as the OP will be checking in with AF and have an AF BP. That won't pass muster with the PC agent.

Welcome to FlyerTalk! No, you will not be able to gain access to any lounges based on that itinerary.

LAXRuss

This complimentary PP guest benefit is something that Citi Chairman offers to their cardholders and is evidently something they worked out with Priority Pass, so it is really not a membership level offered to the public.

Technically, what the Citi Chairman card currently offers cardholders is the equivalent to Priority Pass Prestige (i.e. unlimited PP entries) PLUS the ability to take up to 2 guests per visit into lounges (without paying the $24 per person guest entrance fee). This is not a benefit that can currently be obtained through Priority Pass, only through the card membership. (Currently I have the Citi Chairman Master Card-- I assume they offer this with the Citi Chairman AMEX, but I don't know whether that card has a different benefit package. I can't remember exactly what the Citi Chairman MC annual fee is, somthing like $400-$500 annually.) When I hear others on here talk about Ameritrade's card with PP access, it would make me curious whether they also have negotiated free guest access-- at the post's stated annual fee of $150 for the Ameritrade card and statement that she has never paid for PP guests, that would be an even better value than Chairman's and would almost fit into the category of one of those legitimate gem of a deals that is too good to be true! Or if that is not the case, the post may have received free guest access through some Ameritrade/PP problem in reconciling accounting.

As an aside-- the Priority Pass is naturally a great way to round out lounge membership. As you may know airlines such as NW/DL/CO seem to be heavily networked with PP (although that is less important to AMEX Plat cardholders, because they have that benefit anyway.) Other Airlines such as UA don't provide PP access to lounges at their hubs (likely so they don't devalue their own memberships) but still provide access in other locations (in UA's case other locations including SFO and DCA, but not ORD, IAD or LAX). Internationally, the PP card consistently provides me access at airports where I have no other means of using a club or where my elite flyer club access is ten miles from my departure gate, while PP has an affiliate club just steps away (for example, flying Alitalia out of Milan can be a major problem without PP as Alitalia has some flight gates in a terminal that is separate from where their club is located.) Recently I took a flight out of London-Luton, a new UK hub for discount carriers. I don't think there is a single airline serving that airport that even operates a business class cabin, yet the airport operates a nice PP affiliate lounge to use.

LAXRuss

Regarding access to U.S. NW/DL/CO/AA lounges, I think the line is starting to blur between U.S.-issued and foreign issued AMEX cards. Some international sites available to cardholders through log-on, such as the ICC site, are starting now to advertise this lounge access as a benefit for their cardholders (in addition to Priority Pass). Now that this has started, I can't imagine any lounge dragon who would reasonably be able to differentiate who is entitled to access, if access is truly differentiated among countries-- i.e. to say that yes, you U.S. and ICC cardholder have access and no you cardholder from country x and y don't. I can't imagine how anybody could reasonably drop to that level of detail, particularly as likely 99% of the AMEX cards used for access to the U.S. lounges are probably U.S. issued.

I suppose it's still reasonable to say that foreign cardholders are not guaranteed access unless their country's AMEX issuer advertises this feature as a card benefit. I know a number of foreign-issued Plat cardholders who use this benefit on travel to the U.S. and I at least have never heard of anyone being turned away from one of the lounges for being a foreign cardholder.

tsuruke

Does anyone here have experience gaining access to AA's Admirals Club, using AMEX Platinum, upon arrival? In my case, I will be flying from SFO to JFK on a red-eye AA flight and connecting to AF flight bound for CDG. Since this will be over 10 hours of layover in JFK, I am hoping that I can enter Admirals Club using my AMEX Platinum card, but I am going to have only a boarding pass for the AA flight that just arrived; not a boarding pass for a departing AA flight. Under this circumstance, do you think I can get access to Admirals Club?

scubadu

Yes.

TAHKUCT

You should not have any problem, even though I can only confirm for CO lounges that I have access many time upon arrival.

nemloc

Every once in a while you will get a someone at the CO counter to decline this entry. I don't recall seeing somewhere that clarifies whether a used same day boarding pass isn't valid with your plat card in order to enter. You can always quickly purchase a refundable ticket for a few hours from then and cancel it if needed.

patchan8984

I have all UA operated but all CO flight numbers. My assumption is that I cannot use the PC lounge

However, if I threw in a leg that was CO and it was all "same day", then wouldnt i get access?

I figure thats why I got the skyguide exec priv club...for the lounge passes.

Thanks,:-:

TAHKUCT

As long as your boarding passes are printed on CO stock, you will not have any problems accessing PC lounge. I have not done it myself, but you can probably go to CO kiosk and print your boarding passes there instead of UA.

dkelly1110

So if I have flights on UA out of EWR upcoming and print the BPs on CO stock, you think i would be able to access the PC?

Interesting idea....

I wonder if that would work on my stop at SFO too....

TAHKUCT

Yes

S.Bling

If I am not mistaken, the Amex lounge agreement for DL and CO precipitates flying on their metal too.
The agreement with AA allows you to fly any metal (even code-share) as long as the BP is from AA.

I have been denied access to the CO lounge in LAX with a BP from CO and a flight number with CO, but the metal was "operated by" DL (before CO left skyteam). So I would hesitate to assume that a UA flight on UA metal would get you access to a CO lounge just because the paper BP was printed in a CO terminal.

YMMV

sbm12

You would get access at either end of the ONE segment that is CO operated. You would not get access based on the other BPs.

No and no.

First, you won't get UA BPs printed on CO stock most of the time. Second, the UA gates at EWR are in a different security area than any of the CO PCs. And, finally, the rule is based on the operating metal, not the stock that the BP is printed on. You might get lucky at some point but I absolutely wouldn't bet on it. The CO agents are generally very good about correctly applying the rules.

Chaiyakan

I'm taking a flight to Vegas from Regan, D.C
w/ AA

In D.C there is a AA lounge, but on the way back the only lounge is Continental...
Anyone had luck with the AMEX platinum with AA tickets going into continental?