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Arrow Flagship Lounges and Flagship First Dining to start reopening September 2021

The Points Guy, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, in part: <link>

The airline (AA) will begin reopening its premium Flagship Lounges in September, the airline confirmed to TPG on Wednesday. The first location to welcome back flyers will be Miami (MIA), followed by the airline’s four other outposts later throughout Fall 2021. The move follows a nearly 18-month closure after AA first shuttered the entire premium lounge network on March 20, 2020.

The carrier also teased some exciting updates to its Flagship Lounge access policy, with an announcement slated for “later this summer.”

In addition to its Flagship Lounges, the airline will also reopen its Flagship First Dining locations. These outposts are essentially a lounge-within-a-lounge, offering a seated restaurant-style dining experience — with Krug champagne available, before the pandemic — to those ticketed in long-haul or premium transcon first class on AA’s three-cabin jets.

AA operates five Flagship Lounges, four of which also feature a Flagship First Dining facility. You’ll find the full directory below:
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  • Chicago (ORD) — reopening later this Fall, and this outpost doesn’t offer Flagship First Dining
  • Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) — reopening later this Fall
  • Los Angeles (LAX) — reopening later this Fall (but Flagship First Dining will remain closed)
  • Miami (MIA) — reopening in September
  • New York-JFK — reopening later this Fall
The Flagship First Dining facility in Miami will open along with the larger Flagship Lounge in September, followed by the outposts in DFW and JFK later this fall. There’s no reopening timeline yet for the Flagship First Dining facility in LAX.

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