Alaska Lounge Member Access to AA Admirals Club
Jun 6, 2021, 8:16 pm
#47
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Jun 6, 2021, 10:11 pm
#48
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: SFO
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From my experience, the most efficient process seems to be 1) show them or let them scan your boarding pass, and then 2) show them the AS Boardroom digital pass--seems to be their preferred method. Also, while only a few times, I've had no trouble accessing the SF AC with my AS lounge membership.
Although the only purpose that the digital pass seems to serve in this case is that it displays my AS FFN in large text so I can show it to the AC agent who then manually types it in to the computer. I have not visited an AC where they have even attempted to scan it.
Jun 7, 2021, 2:16 pm
#49
Join Date: May 2012
Location: HNL
Programs: AS MVPG, HA Plat
Posts: 1,268
I'm increasingly miffed that the HNL Admirals Club has yet to reopen, despite tourism roaring back. After a year of paying for a membership I barely got to use (even with the extension), it's salt in the wound for AA to keep dawdling on reopening my home airport lounge.
Jun 7, 2021, 4:49 pm
#50
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Jun 7, 2021, 4:51 pm
#51
Join Date: Aug 2012
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Sep 7, 2021, 4:57 pm
#52
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: LAX, ONT
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I'm a new paying member of Admirals Club. I will be flying into CLT early in the morning and have two hours to kill before the rental car desk opens. Is it possible to enter the lounge as an arriving passenger?
Sep 7, 2021, 7:51 pm
#53
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Sep 8, 2021, 9:14 am
#54
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: LAX
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Rebrand happened around Nov 2016 or so.. Can still spot some references to Boardroom on occasion (I think the LAX elevator still says it on the digital display, but they may have also recently updated that as well).
Sep 9, 2021, 4:22 pm
#55
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Verdi, NV, SFO & Olympic (aka Squaw )Valley.
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I'm increasingly miffed that the HNL Admirals Club has yet to reopen, despite tourism roaring back. After a year of paying for a membership I barely got to use (even with the extension), it's salt in the wound for AA to keep dawdling on reopening my home airport lounge.
Sep 9, 2021, 6:51 pm
#56
Join Date: May 2012
Location: HNL
Programs: AS MVPG, HA Plat
Posts: 1,268
As recently as January 2020, Alaska and American had equivalent numbers of passengers in Honolulu...but it was a much more strategically important station for Alaska. You would think Alaska could just open up its own lounge there.