Pleasant Surprise at the London Lounge
Aug 25, 2009, 1:39 pm
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Pleasant Surprise at the London Lounge
Over the weekend I had consecutive red-eyes. An AC transatlantic red-eye into LHR; followed by a VS redeye ex-LHR. As I don’t have status with VS and was only booked into their Premium Economy, I didn’t have any lounge access with them. My reading of the AC Lounge access rules for Elites seemed to indicate that arriving Elite passengers can use domestic lounges and/or the LHR arrivals lounge.
Early that evening, I returned to LHR T3, after spending the day in London. After checking in and clearing security, I made a quick circuit of the main public lounge area before heading to the AC/SK London Lounge. I went up to lounge desk, showed my arriving AC boarding pass from that morning, my AC Elite card and my VS boarding pass for that night and explained that I had arrived on AC that morning and was departing on VS later that evening and asked if I could access the lounge, fully expecting to potentially be turned away. I was warmly greeted and granted lounge access.
Was I just lucky or are SK’s rules a little more generous for connecting passengers?
P.S. At that time of day all of the AC flights had already departed, so I assume the evening gatekeepers were SK staff.
mpc1
Early that evening, I returned to LHR T3, after spending the day in London. After checking in and clearing security, I made a quick circuit of the main public lounge area before heading to the AC/SK London Lounge. I went up to lounge desk, showed my arriving AC boarding pass from that morning, my AC Elite card and my VS boarding pass for that night and explained that I had arrived on AC that morning and was departing on VS later that evening and asked if I could access the lounge, fully expecting to potentially be turned away. I was warmly greeted and granted lounge access.
Was I just lucky or are SK’s rules a little more generous for connecting passengers?
P.S. At that time of day all of the AC flights had already departed, so I assume the evening gatekeepers were SK staff.
mpc1
