Non-status QP member access to LAX TBIT oneworld lounge
Sep 23, 2010, 6:13 am
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Non-status QP member access to LAX TBIT oneworld lounge
Having read the QF website I'm 90% sure I know the answer, but I would like to confirm with a member's recent experience.
Is there any doubt that a QP member will be able to access the oneworld lounge in the LAX TBIT terminal? The QF site says that it is a genuine QP, but other info I have read on FT says that it is a oneworld lounge, which would tend to indicate that it is available to Sapphires and Emeralds only.
I am hoping to hear some recent experience from a non-status QP member who has departed from the LAX TBIT terminal.
If there is any doubt whatsover about access, I will stay in T4 after my connecting flight. If not, I would rather be over in TBIT.
Thanks.
Is there any doubt that a QP member will be able to access the oneworld lounge in the LAX TBIT terminal? The QF site says that it is a genuine QP, but other info I have read on FT says that it is a oneworld lounge, which would tend to indicate that it is available to Sapphires and Emeralds only.
I am hoping to hear some recent experience from a non-status QP member who has departed from the LAX TBIT terminal.
If there is any doubt whatsover about access, I will stay in T4 after my connecting flight. If not, I would rather be over in TBIT.
Thanks.
Sep 23, 2010, 7:07 am
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Thanks for that. The lounges changed not so long ago from individual airline lounges to a oneworld lounge, but I have received recent information to reassure me that QP membership is enough to access the TBIT lounge.
Thanks again to the wider FT knowledge.
Thanks again to the wider FT knowledge.
Sep 28, 2010, 2:37 pm
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Sep 28, 2010, 2:58 pm
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Sep 28, 2010, 3:12 pm
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Didn't know about TBIT also being a QP. Thanks! ^
Sep 28, 2010, 3:25 pm
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I've never had a QP membership, but isn't it like AC membership? Anytime access to any QP, regardless of airline being flown? The airline requirement is only for other lounges that aren't QP but with negotiated access rights (such as AC and BA lounges). Which makes that QP designation rather important at times (too bad HNL lost it!).
Sep 28, 2010, 3:28 pm
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I've never had a QP membership, but isn't it like AC membership? Anytime access to any QP, regardless of airline being flown? The airline requirement is only for other lounges that aren't QP but with negotiated access rights (such as AC and BA lounges). Which makes that QP designation rather important at times (too bad HNL lost it!).
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Sep 28, 2010, 3:37 pm
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So WP benefit is greater than QP paid membership (WP has anytime QP access). Making the QP designation for lounges outside Oz significant only for WPs. QF does have a rather strange mix of lounges that are/are not QP designated. I guess WP is more valuable than I realized.
Sep 28, 2010, 7:08 pm
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