Originally Posted by
number_6
....the "escort" is actually a piece of paper. You need it to get through security "in the wrong direction" to go back to the arrivals level from the lounge on departures....It goes quite smoothly and takes a couple of minutes, not an hour.
I've been asking a question about this form in another thread; you seem quite knowledgeable about it. On a much-discussed MR on AA just after they started their DFW->HKG route, I was given this form at a transfer desk on the arrivals level and had no problem going "upstairs" to the lounges on the departure level to spend the night. But when I followed the directions I was given to return to W1 to obtain my onward boarding passes the next morning, the elevator I needed to use was roped off. Might that have been just because, in my eagerness to be punctual, I arrived too early? (I was told to arrive about 9:00am...which I did...but the contract AA staff didn't actually arrive at the W1 transfer desk until 9:30am. I was the first in line by that time.
