Originally Posted by
BOB W
The AA options for many places I fly, FLL, MCO, MSY to name a few will now be lounge less airports. AA is not covering the bases anywhere near as well as DL does. UA would plug those holes in the network. My BR membership will lapse in April and I will find a better way to access the lounges.
It's been fun AS, but life goes on and things do change.
Yeah, it's a shame that it's the Florida airports that seem to be hit the worst. I'm happy we can negotiate getting United in PHL, so I'm not slogging through terminals from the AA clubs, but losing Orlando (and SLC, where I usually connect between Seattle and Orlando) is making me question my renewal as well. Plus my long standing peeve that the Tampa AA/DL clubs are a different airside than the AS gates, so those are already inaccessible when I'm flying Alaska. I'm assuming the same prevents them from using the MCO lounge as that's a different terminal as well for the United lounge.
I hope AS can negotiate access to the other places they fly - the lack of lounge in IAD has always peeved me, and maybe we can get the other Texas lounges as well in SAT and IAH.