Originally Posted by nldogbert

As far as I can say from experience 3 months ago, Saudia is still NOT letting ST E+ (of even in J class) members to use their lounge when flying non-Saudia flights. There is really no use arguing with them using any rules dictated in the ST rules, they will stand their ground and send you to the lounge dedicated to the contract lounge as per your operating carrier.
The reason always provided from the lounge dragon is that they have no contract with AF/AZ, etc...I am curious what is the real reason behind this...never bothered to escalate this to customer service of my FFP (in this case Flying Blue).
Sadly it does look like one of the better lounges used by any of the ST carriers operating into CAI - at least from the outside.

Cheers!