Originally Posted by
lall
Thanks TheMax
We (my wife and I) will be staying in Las Vegas from 06 June for 3 days and thereafter, on 09 Jun, taking AA flight (first class domestic) to Dallas.
Will be flying J class LON-LAS, we hope to be able to get off the plane (BA 747) and pass immigration fairly quickly. The flight lands at 15.00 hrs.
We visited LAX a few months ago and thanks to automatic passport control (APC) there, we were out of the airport within 30 mins of landing. Hoping for similar experience at LAS.
My post was mainly aimed at obtaining confirmation as to whether The Club lounge in LAS is accessible to BA Silver/Oneworld Sapphire members flying domestic on AA in first class. I read somewhere in Flyertalk that the Club Lounge at LAS is meant only for international passengers departing on a BA flight. This is still not clear to me. But i retain form this thread that my AA flight to DFW will not be in the same Terminal as The Club.
cheers
It's not that the Club Lounge at LAS is only for international passengers departing on a BA flight (there are other airlines that have agreements with this private lounge as well, which may be the reason for your confusion). The simple answer to your question is that AA passengers (and admirals club members) at LAS have NO option of using any lounge, so you and your wife as AA passengers will not have a lounge option provided by AA. Your BA status is a red herring, it doesn't matter in these circumstances because AA is not providing anything in the first place. The aforementioned Club lounge is not part of the OW alliance, so even though BA uses this lounge for F/J and status passengers on their flights to London you cannot use it when travelling on AA (or other OW carriers) regardless of your status. It's a rare example of such a situation because usually AA has an Admirals Club or Flagship lounge in the same airport that BA flies from in the USA (but not all, such as New Orleans, etc)