Originally Posted by mpheels

I'm sure I'm repeating a question that has been asked and answered, but I've seen conflicting information, so I'm asking again...

My mother and I are flying IAD-CDG tonight in J, arriving tomorrow morning. We are connecting to a CDG-VCE flight in Y. Our connection is only two hours, so long enough that we may have 30-45 minutes of waiting around time, but not long enough to visit the 2C arrivals lounge for a shower. Does our arriving J ticket grant us access to the departures lounges before our connecting flight in Y?