escape4

The sad looking old BDA airport is no more, and Air Canada flew for the first time to the controversial new airport on Friday. The airport looks infinitely better than the old one, and if the information I received from check-in staff is correct the best news is that we will now have access to a Priority Pass lounge, unlike the old airport where there was only a British Airways lounge which anyway was always closed at the time of the AC flight in the afternoon. The lounge is not open yet but we can see its future location, see bottom right of map. Since the USA-bound flights are from the left part of the airport (after USA immigration clearance) and separate from the Toronto+London bound flights on the right, that means the lounge will only be used by BA, AC, and possibly WestJet passengers.

Adam Smith

This thread is borderline off topic from the get-go, but the information on lounge access is useful for those flying AC, so I'll leave it up for now.

Please ensure any posts are specific to AC. General discussion of the new terminal, controversy surrounding its construction, etc belongs in another forum on FT or other websites entirely.

Adam Smith
AC Forum Co-Moderator

Jasper2009

Thanks for sharing!

Let's hope AC J pax and status pax will be able to access the lounge as a contract lounge.

So will there be separate security check points for US bound and non-US flights (incl. AC)?

escape4

In the old airport, there was separate security screening for USA vs UK+Canada. Now it's more logical: all passengers go to security first at the same place, and only after security is the split USA vs Canada+UK.

So that would be one drawback of flying AC from the new airport: there could be longer queues because AC passengers will be mixed up at security with USA-bound passengers.

LesDorgo

Is there different security line for Star gold or J passengers.

escape4

There were hardly any people at the airport so no need for a separate line at this point in time. Maybe they will in the future but since they never had before, then I doubt it will change.