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Accessing TBIT *A Lounge from T7/T8 at LAX
Plan on at least 15-20 minutes walking each way.
This link can answer 99% of the questions asked here.
http://www.staralliance.com/en/web/staralliance/lounge-finder
No access on UA Domestic First without Star Gold.
Contact number: 310 648 7020
Yes, there is an airside connector between T4 through T8. After T7 security, follow the signs to T6, go past the Alaska Airlines Boardroom/Wolfgang Puck and you'll see escalators down to the connector. From T4 to TBIT, follow signs for Gate 41 (near T4 security). Ideally if you have pre-check, I would clear security in T4 for the Star Alliance lounge.
This link can answer 99% of the questions asked here.
http://www.staralliance.com/en/web/staralliance/lounge-finder
No access on UA Domestic First without Star Gold.
Contact number: 310 648 7020
LAX - TBIT star alliance lounge access
#31
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So some changes are apparently coming to security access that I think people on long layovers at LAX will like.
I heard from a friend that works at LAX that TSA at the airport is going to allow passengers with a valid day-of boarding pass from any terminal to go through security at any terminal starting May 1, 2014. I think it is great for people on long layovers especially with the lack of food options pre-security at TBIT right now. On the other hand I wonder if this change will make the lounge a lot more crowded?
I heard from a friend that works at LAX that TSA at the airport is going to allow passengers with a valid day-of boarding pass from any terminal to go through security at any terminal starting May 1, 2014. I think it is great for people on long layovers especially with the lack of food options pre-security at TBIT right now. On the other hand I wonder if this change will make the lounge a lot more crowded?
#32
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I suspect that only a very small number of additional pax will (a) qualify for *A lounge access, (b) be aware they may access the *A lounge, and (c) be willing to make the trek to TBIT and clear security twice.
#33
Join Date: Dec 2012
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I'm thinking that word will get out. How long your layover is will be the limiting factor. Getting to take a shower at any one of the lounges is better than making a trek out to the hotel, IMO.
#34
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and a nice *A lounge is better than no lounge at all for UA *G flying UA (and not on an international itinerary).
#35
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But consider the IAD LH lounge - despite an active thread on the UA forum about right to access on a domestic itinerary, it's by no means overwhelmed. We are a minutely small minority of travelers here on FT.
#37
Join Date: Oct 2013
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Is it in effect now? I will have PVG-LAX-EWR with 6 hrs layover in Nov. I just want to find a quite place to take a nap. The UC in terminal 6/7 doesn't have a private room. I was thinking to go to the *A lounge in TBIT.
So some changes are apparently coming to security access that I think people on long layovers at LAX will like.
I heard from a friend that works at LAX that TSA at the airport is going to allow passengers with a valid day-of boarding pass from any terminal to go through security at any terminal starting May 1, 2014. I think it is great for people on long layovers especially with the lack of food options pre-security at TBIT right now. On the other hand I wonder if this change will make the lounge a lot more crowded?
I heard from a friend that works at LAX that TSA at the airport is going to allow passengers with a valid day-of boarding pass from any terminal to go through security at any terminal starting May 1, 2014. I think it is great for people on long layovers especially with the lack of food options pre-security at TBIT right now. On the other hand I wonder if this change will make the lounge a lot more crowded?
#40
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Also looking for any recent reports of successful access of TBIT lounge without BP departing from that terminal. I've got *G with TK, and a long domestic layover coming up.
#41
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You'll get thru security no problem. Actually I got really lucky, as I was flying UA Domestic F to EWR the lounge attendant directed me to the First Class lounge before I had time to explain I was actually flying domestic F and not Intl F. Oh well
#42
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Awesome, thanks! I'm flying domestic F so maybe I'll get lucky as well.
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#45
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Happened to me too. But guys, we don't really want this that publicized right?? Then UA will issue a notice to the *A lounge and NZ lounge and soon enough it'll turn into the SQ lounge at SFO.