Originally Posted by
enelym1978
Now that I think of it, by flying mostly in C, don't you get lounge accesses anyway?
Yes, but sometimes the lounges are different. For example, any LH C ticket gets you into their business class lounges (perhaps not partner lounges), but not into their better SEN lounges, which you can enter as a *Gold when flying *A. OTOH, in SIN, the SQ business class lounge is better than the *A *Gold lounges at that airport. Note also that USA domestic flights in FC do not give lounge access (with a few exceptions for certain special transcontinental flights), but a *Gold card NOT FROM UA or US does.