Originally Posted by
shefgab
I must say, it does generally make sense. I guess not many people will be travelling with someone they know, at the same time, but on a different flight. If these rumours are true, I guess that more people do this than you'd think AND BA thinks it's costing them too much. Apart from the people that put their details on FT offering to guest, it probably won't effect many (BAEC) people.
This actually happens to me all the time. Most of my business travel is to conferences so I'm often returning from the conference with several other people with flights at similar times but to different destinations. Some of us will even be connecting at the same hub so we'll be on the same initial flight but have different connections from there.
The real reason I'm skeptical they would do this is that it would make them uncompetitive with *A where the rule is iron-clad and has no exceptions. They could do it for First lounges but leave the option for business lounges though. *A doesn't have any alliance-wide first class lounge entitlement at all.