Originally Posted by
dsantos08
Ah, I thought that business class passengers to South America were allowed in the Polaris lounge. I guess they changed their policy from the last time I read it.
I should still be able to use the Star Alliance lounge at TBIT right?
Yeah United specifically excludes Colombia for some reason. From their website:
"United Polaris is available on trans-Pacific or trans-Atlantic flights, and on flights from the U.S. to these South American destinations: Buenos Aires, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Santiago. All other international routes are United Business® and include use of the United Club: Guam, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador."
Yes you can definitely access the Star Alliance business lounge in TBIT with Avianca business.
Still concerned that the flight takes off from terminal 3 which would be quite the back-and-forth with security (regardless of time consuming, I'm not sure TSA would allow this). When I flew on Copa to Panama City, LAX website also said check in at T3 and proceed to TBIT (like it says for Avianca). However it said TBIT on flightaware for the flight (not T3). It says T3 for this avianca flight.