Originally Posted by
Marcin83
Hey. A basic question - OW Elites (and AA too) can access OW lounges (like BA) when flying domestically with AA from the airports that do not have Admiral Club? Like IAD for example. I remember that in IAH (T-D) they were not allowing the access to BA Lounge when flying with AA (T-A) and the excuse was the capacity.
Capacity is a valid (if crappy) excuse for not allowing access (i.e. they can say we are over capacity so we are only allowing people on our flights in).
But if they deny access to a non-AA OWE on the sole basis they are flying domestically, that's against the rules.
In your situation, because they phrased it as a capacity issue they weren't breaking the rules.