Welcome to FlyerTalk, TonyShock.

As a OW Sapphire, you're entitled to lounge access any day you're traveling internationally.

The OW lounge (that QF uses, but I don't think belongs to QF) in TBIT is by far the nicest of all of them. And the food is all free there at a nice buffet, while AA has a mix of free food (like soup and snacks) and paid food.


Btw, don't believe the people who tell you that you can drive it in two hours. That's "in the middle of the night" timing. Anywhere close to rush hour and/or shopping time and/or other reasons for people to be up and about, it's all too common for the trip to take 3 or 4 hours by car (sometimes even more). I drive (the first half) of that route every week and it often enough takes me 1.5 hours or more just from the exit for LAX to the exit for SNA in Irvine (which is less than halfway to SAN), depending on what time I leave.