Originally Posted by Chuck Bass

Hi all,

I'm OW Emerald. I have managed to book myself and my gf the following itienary:

KOA-LAX (American Airlines), departs at 10:42PM. Lands at 6AM

LAX->DFW->Helsinki (American Airlines, Finnair). Departs at 10.30AM on the same day, so 4.5 hour layover, but have to go pick up bags and check in again.

We have a hiking excursion planned for that last day in Hawaii, aka just before heading to the airport in the evening.

I somehow thought there would be an OW lounge at KOA but there doesn't appear to be one. Without an access to a shower, this journey takes like 30 hours... after a long day of hiking before the traveling even begins. To make matters worse, I probably have to skip the LAX-HEL part and head to another US city for work, so it would only be my gf who's flying straight back according to the above itienary. She has no OW status. All flights are economy class.

Questions:

-Is there somewhere we can somehow shower at KOA, somehow?
-Assuming not, can we go to a lounge as we land at LAX?
-Assuming not, if I buy myself a different OW flight than my gf'x LAX-DFW leg at 10.30am (I need to commute to another city in the US), can we do our own check-ins but then go to a lounge together at LAX? So we'd be on different flights, but both would be OW flights, and I have OW emerald.

Thank you very much for your answers! Wasn't my finest hour when I booked this thing.