Originally Posted by
brenrox
Purchase a refundable ticket and cancel once leaving the lounge? Have never done it, so can't confirm whether that actually works.
You can do this but lounge staff can get grumpy as it's a lot of manual work to offload pax and then process the refund.
I know somebody who's done this a number of times for totally legitimate reasons - last minute flights for tech support issues that have ended up being solved before he's made it onto the plane.