Jun 4, 2014, 8:51 pm
Last edit by: JDiver
Admirals Club Annual and Citi Executive Card Memberships
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One Day Passes
and
One Day Passes
Link to Admirals Club membership page (including rates, etc.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP (including Citi® AAdvantage Executive World Elite MasterCard®)
1. The most economical way to gain full Club membership is with the Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World EliteTM MasterCard® ($450 annual fee). See Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World EliteTM MasterCard®. Also see Link to Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World EliteTM MasterCard® Terms and Conditions.
Authorized cardholders are entitled to access Domestic and international Admirals Club locations as well (not Alaska or Qantas Clubs, etc.) and may guest Immediate family (spouse, domestic partner and/or children under 18) or up to 2 guests.
2. Annual membership can be purchased. The rate depends on your status. See the page linked to above to determine your fee in US Dollars or AA miles (you can also use Business Extra Points from the Business Extra account). If you have not held membership, there is also a $50.00 initiation fee. See link
3. "Household" memberships are also sold for spouses, people who are spousal equivalents and registered domestic partners.
4. Where members can go
- Domestic and international Admirals Club locations
- All Alaska Airlines Lounges (when departing on flights marketed and operated by American, Alaska Airlines or Virgin America)
- All Qantas Clubs (when departing on same-day flights operated by Qantas, or operated by American out of Auckland, New Zealand or Sydney, Australia)
- Select partner lounges operated by third parties (on same-day flights operated by American)
6. If members have airside access and are not flying AA, they may access the Admirals Club. If they do not have airside access, they no longer can get a gate pass through the Club or from ticket agents. See below.
Thirty day memberships are no longer available as of 25 Jul 2016.
WHAT IS AVAILABLE IN Admirals Club lounges?
Welcome to the Admirals Club! (link)
What's complimentary:
- Wi-Fi
- House wine, beer and spirits
- Light snacks as well as coffee, specialty coffee drinks, tea and soft drinks (now expanded to oatmeal and baked goods mornings, soups, guacamole to order afternoons)
- Personal use computers with Internet access*
- Cyber-cafes*
- Power outlets to help you stay connected
- Work areas with access to copiers and printers
- Shower suites*
- Children’s play areas*
- Personal travel assistance with your reservations
- As well as other amenities including:
- Premium brand spirits available for purchase in all U.S. locations**
- Food for purchase** in most U.S. locations (menus may vary by location)
- Conference rooms* (discounted member rates and catering available)
- Admirals Club lounge
**Complimentary in international club locations
Link to Admirals Club Drinks /Spirits Offerings & Policies (link)
ONE DAY PASS
American Airlines also sells a One Day Pass for $59, usable by one person (non-transferable and non-refundable) good for any Clubs* the individual may have access to during their travel day (and if traveling overnight the first Club in the point of arrival the following day if the member can access a inside or Club location).
*one day pass holders may be denied access for capacity reasons at Clubs under refurbishment.
NOTE: The sale of One Day Passes is generally suspended at Admirals Clubs under active refurbishment.
One Day Pass does not offer any membership privileges, and allows no (adult) guest privileges, although up to 3 children under the age of 18 years of age may be admitted at no additional charge with adult One-Day Pass visitor. Those One Day Pass holders purchasing a full Admirals Club membership within 30 days will get a $59 credit applied to their membership fee.
One day pass links no longer work; one day passes may no longer be purchased on line. Purchase one day passes at airport Clubs not under refurbishment.
Notes: *Please note Admirals Club lounges in Canada, Europe, Asia, Central and South America located beyond passport control may not be accessible due to airport imposed restrictions. These include: BOG, CCS, CDG, GIG, GRU, LHR, MEX, NRT, SCL, YYZ.
● Admirals Club has reciprocity agreements for access under specified conditions to Alaska Airlines Board Room, Qantas Club, and some individual lounges (e.g. DUB, DUS, FRA, MXP, ZRH etc. Please use the Lounge Dashboard "sticky" thread to easily find the threads discussing these other airline lounge access requirements and to the master threads pertaining to specific lounges. (These do not apply to One Dap Pass holders.)
● Note: Members are able to contact Admirals Club Member Services (see below) 24 hours in advance even when not flying and request gate passes for themselves and others meeting at an Admirals Club for business purposes:
[quote]VISITING THE Admirals Club WHEN NOT FLYING
Members not flying can access Clubs when they have airside access and the airport doesn’t restrict lounge access to departing passengers.
Members can not secure a gate pass from a ticket agent.
Members can not secure a gate pass with merely "declared business purpose" for themselves and others any longer (14 Sep 2016).
Members and non-members can schedule and attend business meetings in the Admirals Club® or Executive Center without traveling if they have rented a conference room in a Club with such and are registered on the daily meeting list. See below.
This requires arrangements at least 24 hours in advance.
FAQ link including a Club access.
Q. I am a member and would like to meet someone at the airport, but I'm not flying today. Can I get through Security to get to the Admirals Club lounge?
A: No. Only those registered in advance and attending a conference in a rented conference room may have access. Casual access / walking up to the ticket counter to request a gate pass is not permitted; please do not put employees in an uncomfortable position by asking.
To do so you must :
- Present a valid government I.D.
- Have your name on the daily meeting list
- Admirals Club number/AAdvantage® number
- Legal name as it appears on government issued identification for each individual
- Birth dates, including year, for each individual (maximum of two guests allowed for non-conference room meeting)*
- Location, date and time of non-conference room meeting
*(Times corrected to current service center hours)
Q. CAN I PUR HASE A FULLY REFUNDABLE AA TICKET FOR ACCESS?
It's honestly not a good idea, as this practice is specifically prohibited by American Airlines' Conditions of Carriage (Link):
American specifically prohibits practices commonly known as:
...Fraudulent, fictitious and abusive bookings: Fraudulent, fictitious and/or abusive bookings are prohibited. These types of bookings are defined as ... or to gain access to airport facilities....
...Fraudulent, fictitious and abusive bookings: Fraudulent, fictitious and/or abusive bookings are prohibited. These types of bookings are defined as ... or to gain access to airport facilities....
CONTACTING Admirals Club
Have questions or comments about our Admirals Club lounges? Need information about locations, membership or club amenities?
Send us an email
Visit our web page
Call us
Within the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico: 800-237-7971
Other locations: 817-963-6100; 817-963-6015 (Fax)
Monday - Friday 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. (CT)
Send us a letter
Admirals Club
4333 Amon Carter Blvd.
MD 5307
Fort Worth, TX 76155
Executive Card - additional information: As one Club employee posted on millionmilesecrets:
"* Here are the rules…I work at the Club
1. Only the primary card holder is a member. Note the word member... The member is allowed to bring in 2 guests Or immediate family which cannot exceed 2 people over 18 and all children under 18. For example John cannot bring in his wife, his 2 daughters and their husbands. He can bring in 2. If his daughters are under 18 they do not count toward the guest count of 2...
NOTE: Please read this wiki thoroughly to see the recent changes allowing access to authorized users / secondary or ancillary card holders.
2. Our computers tell us if one is an authorized user. (Your AAdvantage number and if you are a cardholder in good standing - jd.)
3. Choice of airline doesn’t matter (as long as you have airside access). You can fly anyone and access the Club. We might not be able to help you with your ticketing but you can come in to charge your phone or computer… or even use ours, all the while enjoying a complimentary glass of wine or well drink".
1. Only the primary card holder is a member. Note the word member... The member is allowed to bring in 2 guests Or immediate family which cannot exceed 2 people over 18 and all children under 18. For example John cannot bring in his wife, his 2 daughters and their husbands. He can bring in 2. If his daughters are under 18 they do not count toward the guest count of 2...
NOTE: Please read this wiki thoroughly to see the recent changes allowing access to authorized users / secondary or ancillary card holders.
2. Our computers tell us if one is an authorized user. (Your AAdvantage number and if you are a cardholder in good standing - jd.)
3. Choice of airline doesn’t matter (as long as you have airside access). You can fly anyone and access the Club. We might not be able to help you with your ticketing but you can come in to charge your phone or computer… or even use ours, all the while enjoying a complimentary glass of wine or well drink".
"House Rules" link to updated Club Terms and Conditions, including house rules.
HOUSE RULES
- During your visit to an Admirals Club lounge, American requires that your attire and conduct are consistent with a professional environment.
- American asks that you maintain a quiet environment within each Admirals Club lounge and to step outside with any crying or disruptive children or guests.
- As a courtesy to other guests, please wear headphones when using personal devises such as MP3 players, video games, or DVD players, and refrain from using the speaker feature on any personal devise, including cellular telephones.
- Smoking cigarettes, pipes or cigars (including electronic products), chewing tobacco, and the use of smokeless tobacco are prohibited inside Admirals Club lounges.
- American reserves the right to refuse to serve alcoholic beverages to any guest who appears to be intoxicated or is otherwise unruly.
- Complimentary food, alcoholic beverages and periodicals provided by Admirals Club are for consumption and use inside the Admirals Club only and may not be removed.
- Airport luggage carts are not permitted inside Admirals Club lounges.
- Service animals are welcome in Admirals Club lounges. Quiet pets accompanying guests onboard the aircraft are also permitted, provided they remain in their carry-on kennels.
- Families with small children and nursing mothers may use family rooms in Admirals Club lounges, where available.
- Any conduct that is deemed by American to be inappropriate, undignified, disruptive, abusive or violent is prohibited, and American reserves the right to remove any member or visitor for such conduct, or for failing to comply with membership terms and conditions.
Older posts have archived. Link to archive thread.
Update: 24 Jan 2018 by JDiver
ARCHIVE: Admirals Club membership inc. Citi AAdvantage Executive card, 1 Day Pass
Dec 5, 2011, 6:26 pm
#16
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: SFO, CLT
Programs: AA Bonsai EXP (2.9 MM), AS MVPG
Posts: 1,394
Dec 5, 2011, 8:47 pm
#17
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 116
Citi "black card"....I like that. Sounds cooler than world elite.
Dec 5, 2011, 10:40 pm
#18
Ambassador: Japan Airlines
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: LAX
Programs: JAL Mileage Bank, JMB Diamond, oneworld Emerald, Bonvoy Platinum
Posts: 16,394
AA isn't the only carrier that incorporates a credit card with a lounge access card or even a elite status into one single card.
JAL has been doing this for years with their own credit cards which acts as JGC cards which grants them lounge access as well.
AC agents here in the US or other OW lounge dragons across the world are very well used to seeing JGC credit cards as a lounge entry card from JAL elites.
I don't see why not a CitiExec Card that acts as an AC card would be any different than that.
JAL has been doing this for years with their own credit cards which acts as JGC cards which grants them lounge access as well.
AC agents here in the US or other OW lounge dragons across the world are very well used to seeing JGC credit cards as a lounge entry card from JAL elites.
I don't see why not a CitiExec Card that acts as an AC card would be any different than that.
Last edited by JALPak; Dec 5, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Dec 5, 2011, 11:05 pm
#19
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: TUS
Programs: AA Plt, HH Diamond, IHG Plt
Posts: 268
Mod , Thanks for changing the title and that was my question about the new card.
Dec 24, 2011, 6:58 am
#20
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: AA PLT 2.7 MM, DL GLD, UA Prem, BW Diamond, PC PLT, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,285
Citi Executive AAdvantage® World Elite MasterCard® Admirals admit issues
Beware AA Citi Exec AA World Elite MC EMV cards missing AC logo refused entry at MIA!
Be warned if you are getting one of the new cards with the EMV chip. The back of the card is now missing the AC logo. I was refused entry at the MIA AC due to this. The attendant kept pushing a color laminated picture of the card with the logo on the back at me saying I did not understand and that I had to have the card as pictured. I explained to her that the front of the card matched all the huge posters they had displayed in the club and it clearly had the full name of the card written on the front. She refused to budge. Fortunately I still have the old card at home and will now carry both as a precaution until they get this sorted out.
Just a word to the wise. I called citi and complained about this as well. Citi said they would take note and look into it further.
Be warned if you are getting one of the new cards with the EMV chip. The back of the card is now missing the AC logo. I was refused entry at the MIA AC due to this. The attendant kept pushing a color laminated picture of the card with the logo on the back at me saying I did not understand and that I had to have the card as pictured. I explained to her that the front of the card matched all the huge posters they had displayed in the club and it clearly had the full name of the card written on the front. She refused to budge. Fortunately I still have the old card at home and will now carry both as a precaution until they get this sorted out.
Just a word to the wise. I called citi and complained about this as well. Citi said they would take note and look into it further.
Last edited by Microwave; Nov 14, 2014 at 3:58 am Reason: Removed bolding
Dec 24, 2011, 11:59 am
#21
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: AA PLT 2.7 MM, DL GLD, UA Prem, BW Diamond, PC PLT, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,285
Dec 24, 2011, 12:06 pm
#22
Join Date: Nov 2009
Programs: AA EXP - 2MM +, CO, US, UA,SPG, Hertz Presidents Club
Posts: 233
I hope that you got the agent's name & reported it to Citi & AA. Typical of MIA. worst staff aattitude in the system. I'd ask for a statement credit as compensation.
Dec 24, 2011, 12:09 pm
#23
Join Date: Apr 2011
Programs: AA PLT Pro (2MM), HH DIA, IHG PLT
Posts: 496
I learned in an recent pass through DFW that the AAngel has been told to swipe the card 2-3 times for it to register properly. Did they swipe your card through their terminal?
Dec 24, 2011, 12:12 pm
#24
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 44,573
Sounds like the agent was actually just doing her job and seems unreasonable to use that to insult Miami staff
Reporting that the card layout has changed and ensuring that they know to update the info to lounges is def needed and perhaps a claim for any 1 day pass costs incurred
Dec 24, 2011, 12:28 pm
#25
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: AA PLT 2.7 MM, DL GLD, UA Prem, BW Diamond, PC PLT, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,285
If the card does not match the details that the agent has been given to identify the credit card that allows access, then it is not the agents fault but AA/Citibank's surely; going to report that the agent for just following procedure that was given to follow ?
Sounds like the agent was actually just doing her job and seems unreasonable to use that to insult Miami staff
Reporting that the card layout has changed and ensuring that they know to update the info to lounges is def needed and perhaps a claim for any 1 day pass costs incurred
Sounds like the agent was actually just doing her job and seems unreasonable to use that to insult Miami staff
Reporting that the card layout has changed and ensuring that they know to update the info to lounges is def needed and perhaps a claim for any 1 day pass costs incurred
Everywhere with the card front. The name is clearly visible
And matches the name on their laminated card. It was lazy on
Their part to refuse to look up any info or call a supervisor to
Research it further.
Dec 24, 2011, 12:30 pm
#26
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: AA PLT 2.7 MM, DL GLD, UA Prem, BW Diamond, PC PLT, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,285
As a member I am entitled to admittance and there are huge posters
Everywhere with the card front. The name is clearly visible
And matches the name on their laminated card. It was lazy on
Their part to refuse to look up any info or call a supervisor to
Research it further.
Everywhere with the card front. The name is clearly visible
And matches the name on their laminated card. It was lazy on
Their part to refuse to look up any info or call a supervisor to
Research it further.
Talk to them.
Ac cs was closed
Dec 24, 2011, 12:30 pm
#27
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: POS, MAD
Programs: AA EXP 5.07MM; Marriott Lifetime Pt; Hyatt Diam; Avis
Posts: 170
it's a shame that MIA gets a bad rap in terms of bad service and shoddy behaviors... there's a lot of hub-legacy to bank on in MIA that AA has not fully taken advantage. PanAm, National, Eastern to name a few... it's like there's this sense of entitlement from the majority of AA employees I come into contact. BehAAviors are lackluster at best... permiating all the way into the Miami-Dade staff too - case in point, inter-terminal TrAAin stops working at midnight and in my red-eye flights arriving into D49, the wait is over 10 mins most of the time... the only saving grace is the TSA pilot program that AA has going for some EXPs
Dec 24, 2011, 12:32 pm
#28
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Hotlanta.
Programs: I've gone underground!
Posts: 4,601
Has anyone emailed AA?
Dec 24, 2011, 12:32 pm
#29
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: AA PLT 2.7 MM, DL GLD, UA Prem, BW Diamond, PC PLT, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,285
Shoving the laminated sheet at me. To which I kept
Insisting that it is the same card with the same front.
Dec 24, 2011, 12:34 pm
#30
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: AA PLT 2.7 MM, DL GLD, UA Prem, BW Diamond, PC PLT, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,285