Originally Posted by
JWSCHERER
Searched and could not find a definitive answer to this. I will be arriving HKG in paid first on Cathay and departing on a star alliance carrier on a separate ticket. Is it possible to use the Cathay lounges in HKG?
The definitive answer is "no". How your arriving ticket was paid for is irrelevant, unfortunately. If you are not departing on a OW carrier you can't use it. The rules on that are unambiguous.
If you want to use CX lounges in HKG, and your next flight is regional, just cancel your *A ticket and book CX/KA etc for the second sector. In that case it will not matter what class you fly on the second sector, and your CX F arrival ticket will grant you entry to all the CX lounges, including F lounges due to your arriving flight class.