Originally Posted by
Santander
Hm interesting, must be another one of those things CX conveniently leaves out on their website and membership material. I've only been downgraded to SL for a year and I mainly fly CX to TPE, SIN and YVR so I don't usually have to worry about not getting lounge access.
They didn't leave anything out. SL is entitled to lounge access and if you are at an airport with no CX lounge then you are entitled to use whatever lounge CX partners with at the particular airport. That means at JFK you use BA lounge, at ORD you use the Swiss lounge, etc.
However, as SL you are not high enough in the Oneworld tier to lounge hop other OW lounges and you are restricted to what CX offers you. Only MPC GO and DM have hopping rights (and even then, OW lounges have the right to reject you due to 'capacity control')