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Old Aug 19, 2022 | 9:29 am
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Originally Posted by nateinuk
Flying out of SFO tomorrow, Friday Aug 19th on BA286 in First. The flight is already marked as Delayed and leaving at 20:19 vs the schedule 19:25.

My questions is will the Lounge stay open till that later time? It's currently scheduled to shut at 19:15.

We were thinking of doing dinner in the First Lounge around 19:00 so we could maximize our sleep on the now-later flights. Will they just operate the lounge at the posted hours?

Thoughts?
Anecdote rather than data. I flew that route a few months ago and we left 4 hours late. The lounge stayed open (though some of the delay was after boarding).

My personal tactic is always to eat in the lounge then go to sleep as quickly as possible. The portions are tiny (the burger thing is about a quarter the size of a US burger) and the QR-code based menu is far harder work than talking to a human, but it works well enough.
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