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AA Admirals Club and US Airways Club members currently have reciprocal Club access.
Please note: CitiBank's AAdvantage World Executive Card provides full Admirals Club membership, not "Admirals Club access". Also note here is no actual one month pass, only the one month membership, which includes full Admirals Club privileges; though not so with the 24 hour pass, which provides Club access to one person).
US Airways and American Airlines members have full oneworld lounge access privileges, as US is now listed as a oneworld affiliate airline under American Airlines' oneworld membership.
Please add changes as they occur. Such as:
DCA / Washington Reagan: June 5, 2014, the US Airways Club located on the Center Pier at Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) will consolidate with the Admirals Club on the Center Pier. The US Airways Club on the North Pier will continue operating.
(lower right wiki corner)AA Admirals Club and US Airways Club members currently have reciprocal Club access.
Please note: CitiBank's AAdvantage World Executive Card provides full Admirals Club membership, not "Admirals Club access". Also note here is no actual one month pass, only the one month membership, which includes full Admirals Club privileges; though not so with the 24 hour pass, which provides Club access to one person).
US Airways and American Airlines members have full oneworld lounge access privileges, as US is now listed as a oneworld affiliate airline under American Airlines' oneworld membership.
Please add changes as they occur. Such as:
DCA / Washington Reagan: June 5, 2014, the US Airways Club located on the Center Pier at Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) will consolidate with the Admirals Club on the Center Pier. The US Airways Club on the North Pier will continue operating.
Admirals Club / USAirways Club Merger Developments, Reciprocal Access [Master Thread]
Mar 26, 2015, 7:11 pm
#586
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CLT-LAX in F doesn't qualify for Flagship Lounge I either; you'd have to fly CLT- JFK- LAX, the latter in three class First, for JFK and Flagship Lounge access.
Your Citi Exec card includes full Admirals Club membership, so you can visit there. On TN in Business, you ask TN check-in staff for passes to the lounge they use at the moment at TBIT.
Air Tahiti Nui often uses the shared lounge also used by EVA Air, Air India, China Airlines, China Eastern, El Al Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Philippine Airlines as Mabuhay Lounge and used to be used by Mexicana Airlines, on the 4th floor, North wing of the TBIT, iirc . Sometimes, the SkyTeam / Korean Air lounge. Sometimes, no lounge, in which case you are given a meal voucher. SkyTeam / Korean lounge is Priority pass / Diners Club, so there may be access for some.
Mar 27, 2015, 2:14 pm
#587
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: CLT
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 709
I went through MIA today at noonish and asked the same question "where is the soup
The reply was that it only becomes available after the meal hours and if you want it now at noon you have to buy it off the menu.
Why on earth would anybody buy an Admirals Club membership at today's prices with that business plan to squeeze even more money out of the members.
The reply was that it only becomes available after the meal hours and if you want it now at noon you have to buy it off the menu.
Why on earth would anybody buy an Admirals Club membership at today's prices with that business plan to squeeze even more money out of the members.
Not arguing it shouldn't be changed now, but that's where it originated and I believe it's still that way because the expansion of the soup to the entire AC system was a carryover from the US Airways policy on this.
Mar 27, 2015, 2:21 pm
#588
Join Date: Apr 2012
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I'm still not seeing any soup in the DCA AC on the C concourse, but they upgraded the furniture since my visit last week. New seats have the swivel tray, which is nice. Can't be certain, because the arrangement of the chairs seems similar, and it's really crowded here this afternoon, but it does seem like there are less seats. Nevertheless, an improvement from the ancient furniture they had in here before.
Mar 27, 2015, 2:33 pm
#589
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I agree the complimentary food selection between 10AM-3PM is lacking, just yogurt covered pretzels, the nut mix, cookies and usually mushy apples. Soup would be a welcome addition along with those Dorito type chips. We could dream maybe about finger sandwiches.
Mar 28, 2015, 5:27 pm
#591
Join Date: Sep 2009
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Look at us... begging for scraps!
At some point, one of the world's largest airlines should start to think about dedicated international lounges with proper food and beverages.
In the larger airports with multiple lounges it would not be that hard to take one lounge and make it an international lounge. USdbaAA could group international departures in that area when possible. Other airports, you could simple split off part of a lounge or offer food coupons.
If you want to play with the big global airlines, you need to act like a big global airline.
At some point, one of the world's largest airlines should start to think about dedicated international lounges with proper food and beverages.
In the larger airports with multiple lounges it would not be that hard to take one lounge and make it an international lounge. USdbaAA could group international departures in that area when possible. Other airports, you could simple split off part of a lounge or offer food coupons.
If you want to play with the big global airlines, you need to act like a big global airline.
Mar 28, 2015, 6:16 pm
#592
Join Date: Jan 2015
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Mar 28, 2015, 6:46 pm
#593
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Look down near the computers. That is where the oatmeal and bagels were the other morning I was there.
Mar 28, 2015, 6:51 pm
#594
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: SFO
Programs: WFBF
Posts: 963
Look at us... begging for scraps!
At some point, one of the world's largest airlines should start to think about dedicated international lounges with proper food and beverages.
In the larger airports with multiple lounges it would not be that hard to take one lounge and make it an international lounge. USdbaAA could group international departures in that area when possible. Other airports, you could simple split off part of a lounge or offer food coupons.
If you want to play with the big global airlines, you need to act like a big global airline.
At some point, one of the world's largest airlines should start to think about dedicated international lounges with proper food and beverages.
In the larger airports with multiple lounges it would not be that hard to take one lounge and make it an international lounge. USdbaAA could group international departures in that area when possible. Other airports, you could simple split off part of a lounge or offer food coupons.
If you want to play with the big global airlines, you need to act like a big global airline.
So then we'd have someone with your argument saying "well, my international flight obviously deserves to be close to the fancy lounge, and your flight doesn't", and there'd be no improvement over the current situation.
Mar 29, 2015, 4:00 am
#595
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Global
Posts: 5,992
That's not always possible; widebody-capable gates aren't always just plunked right next to each other in a single concourse. At CLT, for example, the nicest Club location is the one between C and D concourses, but at the height of the summer seasonal Europe flying, there are departing A330s parked way down at the end of B since all the widebody gates in D are spoken for.
So then we'd have someone with your argument saying "well, my international flight obviously deserves to be close to the fancy lounge, and your flight doesn't", and there'd be no improvement over the current situation.
So then we'd have someone with your argument saying "well, my international flight obviously deserves to be close to the fancy lounge, and your flight doesn't", and there'd be no improvement over the current situation.
The walk from C/D club to the end of B is 10-15 minutes max - an easy walk for international lounge. In many international airports overseas, the walk can be 20 minutes or more.
It is not going to be perfect. But, we have nothing now. So any improvement is a step up.
Mar 29, 2015, 9:49 pm
#596
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: DCA
Programs: AA Executive Platinum
Posts: 2,085
Look at us... begging for scraps!
At some point, one of the world's largest airlines should start to think about dedicated international lounges with proper food and beverages.
In the larger airports with multiple lounges it would not be that hard to take one lounge and make it an international lounge. USdbaAA could group international departures in that area when possible. Other airports, you could simple split off part of a lounge or offer food coupons.
If you want to play with the big global airlines, you need to act like a big global airline.
At some point, one of the world's largest airlines should start to think about dedicated international lounges with proper food and beverages.
In the larger airports with multiple lounges it would not be that hard to take one lounge and make it an international lounge. USdbaAA could group international departures in that area when possible. Other airports, you could simple split off part of a lounge or offer food coupons.
If you want to play with the big global airlines, you need to act like a big global airline.
Mar 30, 2015, 1:30 pm
#597
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Global
Posts: 5,992
You mean like the dedicated Envoy lounge that for years US used to run in PHL? That is the perfect example, where all international flights were consolidated to terminal A, and the lounge was easily accessible to all A gates. The Envoy lounge was hands-down the best lounge for business class travelers out of any US-based carrier. It's a shame that it was converted in 2011 to a regular club.
