Originally Posted by
bob278
Thank you. Interesting thought. Any idea how far in advance of a flight we can check in and (more importantly) check our luggage?
This depends on whether there's a gap of time when there are no LA departures for several hours, although the check in counters should be open most of the time now. I wouldn't try more than 4 hours prior to flight time (unless you're unavoidably at the airport quite early). Once, many years ago, they wouldn't let me check in for a LIM flight very early, even though the counters were open, until a time certain (maybe 3 hours) prior to flight time.
LA lounge is much more pleasant than the AA lounge. But go to both with all that time. One gets quite noisy and overcrowded in the evening, and even though that same one has warm food items, once you taste them, you'll want to spit most of the items out.