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And if they did not have that policy, I believe we would see many more posts like http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...-f-lounge.html

The reality is, some US airports have a large number of AA flights, and BA only has a small little lounge with barely enough capacity for their flights. They are not going to create a system where they let people in, and then walk around the lounge to see if anyone that was supposed to leave the lounge when it became crowded is still sitting in the lounge.

I expect that PHL will allow access on days when the flights are not busy (which is pretty rare), or for GGL who politely agree to leave when it gets busy (because there aren't that many GGL). At PHL, I think the AA lounges are a reasonably decent place to wait for a flight.