Originally Posted by
canopus27
A brief update on this, as it seems there have been no updates for the last few years.
I am in the YYC INTL Aspire lounge now. I can confirm that it's open, and also that an AC J BP (still) grants access.
The lounge itself seems reasonable ... but it's empty. There are only a tiny handful of people here. There is some hot food, but not much (overly dried rice and beef stroganoff) and some drink (but not a huge selection) ...
But if you're departing YYC INTL in AC J, this is certainly still an option in terms of basic lounges.
Indeed it's open. Number of people, depends. If there are other flights, such as WS, it's not quite empty.
Very clean, but choices are limited.
Couple of weeks ago I tried to find if it was open ad accessible to AC pax. So I phoned the central concierge line. The guy did same as I could do: check on aircanada.com. With no mentino of Aspire... So he directed us the the MLL. As a result we checked in on the domestic side. Of course the local concierge knew the answer.