Originally Posted by christep
This is just wrong - as a OneWorld Emerald you have access to any OneWorld airline lounge (F or J) when flying on a OneWorld airline from that airport that day. I have never had any difficulty at all with this (except once with FinnAir in Helsinki, where they took some persuading).
What persuading was necessary? I know that Finnair in HEL does not allow visiting the "international" lounges if you have only a domestic AY flight, although to me the rules do not exclude that.
In WAW it was impossible to get in the AY contract lounge with AA PLT and AY flight. Afterwards AY custservice said I should have been given access, but no explanation of what went wrong, whether they will fix it, or any attempt to compensate.