Originally Posted by
TravellingSalesman
For future reference - how did you get into the lounge without a qualifying boarding pass? Did you show them your itinerary or something?
You can "check-in online". It does not give you a boarding pass, but, rather a document you can print with all the information about your flight. I showed the FCL person the paper. Once she saw Emerald on the paper, she invited us in.
Having said that, I got the feeling I could have just showed the AA FCL person a printout of our itinerary. She seemed more interested in informing me she could not print out the boarding pass.