Originally Posted by
VSLover
(2) the lounge agents, as best as they know, mentioned the current flagship lounge and bridge would remain as the flagship lounge space and the area on the other side of the bridge which are offices etc as mentioned above have already begun tear down and that is where the new lounge(s) will be installed. they said they had not been told they would be at all disrupted during construction which i can imagine given the flagship lounge isnt that old...but imagine once things are sorted there may be something that must happen with flagship dining area.
This makes sense - the current Flagship lounge and Admirals Club in Concourse B will presumably be amalgamated into one Club lounge to provide enough space for all of the AA and BA departures, whilst the currently vacant adjacent space will become the First lounge and CCR (equivalent). The Admirals Club in Concourse C will remain for AA's members.
The upside of the T7 lounges being fairly new means that hopefully the furniture will be recycled and pop up in other BA lounges in the US (EWR, IAH, SEA and PHL would be good candidates, given ORD is closing, SFO has been refurbished recently and BOS and IAD are fairly new).