Originally Posted by
SkyteamEP
I thought the SkyTeam rule was granting lounge access to passengers connecting from/to a same day international flight?
It is, but the OP does not have Skyteam status, so the "Skyteam rule" you've invoked is of no relevance here.
He bought up to business for the first sector, and then tried to get lounge access on the second (economy) sector and was refused.
Lounge access was granted in HKG ahead of the business class sector (upgraded from Premium Economy), and refused in CDG ahead of the economy class sector.
As you rightly point out, if the OP had Skyteam Elite Plus status then lounge access would be given, but if the OP had Skyteam Elite Plus status he wouldn't have asked the question, which was about getting lounge access solely through the class of travel (on an earlier segment)
Originally Posted by
SkyteamEP
Which I'm understanding as you have lounge access on arrival of an international flight assuming you're not ending your journey there (connecting from)
There's a few things wrong with that understanding:
- CDG to AMS (which is what the OP was flying after HKG-CDG) is also an international flight, so it is meaningless in this context that he was connecting from an international flight - because the next flight was also internaional, too. If Skyteam status was held, access would have been granted even without a prior intercontinental sector.
- You don't get arrival lounge access (except where an arrival lounge is indicated, which is no longer the case at CDG). If status is granted based solely on class of travel, you get the lounge access ahead of each sector in J or P, but not ahead of sectors in lower cabins [unless you pay for it, are guested in, etc etc], even on a fully-connected single-ticket itinerary. (That's not a Skyteam rule, because the Skyteam rule only applies to people accessing lounges on the strength of their status)