Originally Posted by
DrSbaitso
Anyone had luck accessing the business lounge as a Sapphire on a domestic itinerary recently? Tried to enter using my airberlin Gold card today, and was denied due to not being on an international itinerary (was flying AA LAX-SFO).
I had the Oneworld lounge access rules on hand to show I was eligible, but he said that the operating airline pays for lounge access, and American didn't want to pay for domestic flyers.
It does not matter whether AA want to pay for access or not.
Under the current access rules, the guy was wrong - you should have had access.
It is only AAdvantage elites who do not get status based access and that is only when on solely "North American (as defined)" itineraries.
Any non AAdvantage sapphire/emerald should get access before any oneworld marketed and operated flight.