Originally Posted by ashill

Hadn't noticed CX; that's odd. I wonder if it's deliberate or just a mistake, something they failed to change from the pre-oneworld rules? (There are a lot of changes today; easy to see something getting missed!) They're explicit that FJ oneworld Connect recognition will come later, though.



But why would it change with AS joining oneworld? AA has had the exact same lounge access rules for a very long time (decades) and has temporarily made them considerably more generous this year (as others noted). It's not like the AS service to Costa Rica from LAX is a huge increase in lounge-eligible passengers, and it will be an even-smaller increase in lounge-eligible passengers who actually make the trek over to TBIT. Assuming the AS flights aren't right at peak lounge times (haven't checked the schedule), I don't see why QF wouldn't happily take the bit of lounge access fees AS presumably pays as the operating carrier of the flight.



Maybe, but again, AA has had the same rules for a long time, and if AS wanted to use different rules than AA (which would have made sense – I expected AS to simply exclude their entire network (itineraries within true North America from oneworld lounge access rules), I would think the simplest time to do so would have been today, not starting with the AA rules and then changing them later.