Originally Posted by
Caroline Beale
AA1262 CUN PHL
So the road works added maybe 20 mins to our journey.
checking in we were told we would have to recheck our bags at PHL, that was an unwanted surprise as we only have 90 mins at PHL.. hopefully it is not a busy airport.
There now seems to be no lounge access. We weren't offered any voucher either, so have been killing time sat at the gate with a coffee. BTW if Starbucks is your thing, rather than queue for hours at the main one, there is another branch at gate C5 with no queue.
Yes, PHL is not one of the few US airports that offers ITI connections, so after you clear immigration you will retrieve your bags, then drop them back off at a recheck desk, and then reclear security (MIA and DFW offer ITI where you would skip the baggage retrieval step, but not the clear immigration/security steps).
And I don't know that AA has offered lounge access at Cancun ever (pre-COVID AA flights CUN-US didn't qualify for lounge access). Also, AA is not known for offering vouchers when there is not a lounge available. There is a pay for lounge in the terminal AA uses but it's not great.