Yyc_yyc

Hi, still getting the hang of this all.

I've been using LoungeBuddy App to figure out airport lounges I can access.

It shows I also have *arrival* access sometimes. Eg. flying SIN-LAX in business class on Air Singapore, and it shows I have access to Star Alliance Lounge in LAX on arrival, method includes boarding pass.

Generally I understand I need to show a boarding pass for a *departing* flight. When I go to to the Lounge Police Access page for Star Alliance, it says *ARRIVAL lounge access is not a Star Alliance benefit.*

Did Lounge Buddy just get this wrong?

SCChris

Accessing a lounge on arrival, along with Frankly every kind of lounge access rule, will vary wildly depending on the specific airlines, flights and lounges involved. What may be allowed in one alliance or airline may be drastically different in another.

In your example, flying SIN-LAX in J would not give access to the *A lounge at LAX for two reasons:

1. As you state, *A class of service lounge access is based solely on the flight you are departing on.
2. In the US, when you arrive from abroad (from a non preclearance airport) you are dumped outside security and would need an outbound BP to clear security.

To demonstrate how murky and complex these rules are:

- If instead of J you were a *G member (even in Y) connecting to another *A flight, you would get lounge access because *A has a totally different set of rules for status based access versus class of service.
- If instead of flying SQ you flew UA Polaris, UA would give connecting passengers access to their lounges (but not the *A lounge) as they have separate rules for UA J versus the *A rules.

Have a headache yet?