Originally Posted by bennytma
If I read the AA PLAT guide correctly, PLAT members are only supposed to get lounge access on AA metal flights to Mexico City. According to the rules all other flights to Mexico do not permit access. HOWEVER, I was told by an AA agent at the DFW AC that AA/MX have a reciprocal lounge access policy?! Perhaps this is why AA elites are getting access to MX lounges all around Mexico.......
Correct, it's reciprocal. However, it is based on STATUS, not your AC membership -- like an alliance. I've presented my AC card several times to test this, and each time it's the EXP card that gets me in. We're lucky though that coming from Star the employees are used to this kind of thing and well trained.
One of the other ironic quirks in the system: In MTY, if flying AA to DFW, my EXP card will get me into the MX lounge (since AA closed the little unofficial-mini-AC there).
BUT, if flying AA
to MTY from DFW, my EXP card won't get me into the AC in Dallas because I'm not flying to Mexico City. Go figure!