Originally Posted by
FlyerBeek
Also stopped by this morning.... I was also told the same thing by the staff... they have no estimate when the lounge will be allowed to reopen. The county and airport authorities have different reopening standards at LAX for airline lounges compared with independent lounge. Hence, why it's perfectly safe to be in a packed DL or AA lounge but not in an AMEX lounge.

-FlyerBeek
Yeah that sounds like something they just made up to tell people who ask why it isn’t fully open yet.
Indeed.
Amex, apparently following Delta's lead of blaming their sorry lack of service on Covid.