Originally Posted by
cxfan1960
I suppose you have not tried getting to a BA lounge. My last BA flight was last November. My number and tier level was on the BP. The SFO lounge agent asked me to show my card, saying that he could not see if my tier level was still valid. I never needed to do that anymore for the remaining legs of the trip after he entered that in their system.
I have indeed. Both AA (DFW, JFK, various others) and BA (SEA) happily accepted me into their lounges without a physical MPC card.