Originally Posted by
SeattleWanderer
Thanks for the tip, I will watch for that! I actually did get the Alaska + membership. For whatever reason (I don’t really understand since United isn’t oneworld), there’s a handful of United lounges that Alaska + gives you access to, and DCA happened to be one of them. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t go out of my way or pay additional fees to get access to a United one.
this was only the case (as far as I know) because before the security redesign the aa club required going through different security. United was the same airside Gates. It may change now with all gates easily accessible.