Originally Posted by
SeeBuyFly
Bad subject line...there is no "lounge access for elites" anywhere in the USfor domestic flights, using the FT meaning of the term (elite = someone with FF status). Unless you used "elite" in the colloquial sense of "rich person".
Originally Posted by
krlcomm
Was going to post pretty much the same thing. Lounge access has nothing to do w/ being "elite", even non-"elite" pax can purchase it.
Huh? Sure it does. As a Plat or better elite I get access to lounges when flying on trips with same-day international long-hauls - including on the domestic legs connecting to/from my longhauls. So flying DEN-DFW-CDG, I have lounge access at DEN and DFW,
because of my elite status.
Elite status doesn't always provide lounge access, but to say it has nothing to do with it is patently false.