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oneworld and American Airlines Lounge Access Based on oneworld Status
Relax in more premium lounges around the world
If your oneworld® frequent flyer tier status is Emerald or Sapphire, or you are traveling in a First or Business Class cabin on any oneworld member airline, you can access more than 600 airport lounges throughout the world.
This means you can relax or catch up with work in comfort and style before departure, regardless of which oneworld member airline you choose to fly with.
To be eligible, you must be departing on a flight that is both marketed and operated by a oneworld member airline.
oneworld lounge access for frequent flyers by tier status
Enjoy exclusive access to premium airport lounges around the world with oneworld Emerald or Sapphire frequent flyer tier status. Members of oneworld airline frequent flyer programmes with the equivalent of oneworld Emerald or Sapphire tier status can use lounges offered by oneworld airlines when departing on any flight marketed and operated by any oneworld member airline, regardless of cabin class being flown (exceptions are noted below).
The following exceptions apply:
If your oneworld® frequent flyer tier status is Emerald or Sapphire, or you are traveling in a First or Business Class cabin on any oneworld member airline, you can access more than 600 airport lounges throughout the world.
This means you can relax or catch up with work in comfort and style before departure, regardless of which oneworld member airline you choose to fly with.
To be eligible, you must be departing on a flight that is both marketed and operated by a oneworld member airline.
- Some lounges may get busy at peak times, and access to them may be restricted as a result.
- Lounges operated by third parties are identified in the lounge finder tool (above). Access to these lounges is restricted to eligible customers when travelling on specific oneworld airlines as shown in the lounge finder tool.
- Arrivals lounges are excluded.
- Spa and Pre-Flight Dining facilities are excluded.
- British Airways Concorde lounges are excluded.
- Other exceptions may apply (see below).
oneworld lounge access for frequent flyers by tier status
Enjoy exclusive access to premium airport lounges around the world with oneworld Emerald or Sapphire frequent flyer tier status. Members of oneworld airline frequent flyer programmes with the equivalent of oneworld Emerald or Sapphire tier status can use lounges offered by oneworld airlines when departing on any flight marketed and operated by any oneworld member airline, regardless of cabin class being flown (exceptions are noted below).
- Emerald tier frequent flyers can use First Class, Business Class or frequent flyer lounges.
- Sapphire tier frequent flyers are welcome in Business Class* or frequent flyer lounges. (*does not include Qantas Domestic Business Lounges)
- Emerald and Sapphire members may invite one guest to join them in the lounge. The guest must also be travelling on a flight operated and marketed by a oneworld carrier.
- You must be prepared to show your boarding pass and frequent flyer membership card, with oneworld Emerald or Sapphire tier status, to access a lounge.
The following exceptions apply:
- First and Business Class customers who do not hold Emerald or Sapphire tier status are not eligible to access American Airlines or US Airways lounges when travelling on solely domestic flights within the U.S. or between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico [except Mexico City], the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Caribbean; customers travelling in First or Business class on U.S. transcontinental flights between JFK-LAX, JFK-SFO and MIA-LAX (and vice-versa) are eligible for lounge access.
- Guests are not permitted at Qatar Airways Al Safwa and Al Mourjan lounges at Hamad International Airport in Doha or Qatar Airways Premium Lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 4.
oneworld and AA Lounge Access Based on oneworld Status
Jan 16, 2018, 3:31 pm
#136
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Austin
Programs: AA EXP +2MM- LT PLT! HH Diamond
Posts: 6,086
For the first time, and likely last time, I made ExPlat for 2018 and am traveling through HKG with a 3.5 hour layover with my wife. We have friends that will meet us for our second leg and we would like to try to get them access to a Bus lounge. I"m Exp Plat (sapphire) and my wife is Emerald, so we each qualify for an entry plus a guest in the Business class CS lounge. That said, I really want to try the cabanas in the CX WING first lounge in HKG in which I can bring my wife as a guest. Can you tell me if this plan will work for our friends.
First 2 hours, go to the WING for First Cabanas with my wife as my guest and then, depart and go to the Pier Business lounge where we each can bring a guest to get our friends in.
Thanks for all the helpful advice, I have learned so much for FT forums.
First 2 hours, go to the WING for First Cabanas with my wife as my guest and then, depart and go to the Pier Business lounge where we each can bring a guest to get our friends in.
Thanks for all the helpful advice, I have learned so much for FT forums.
My caution is to have a low expectation to use one of the 5 cabanas within the 2 hour period before meeting with your friends unless you get there the very moment they open. Personally prefer the Pier F lounge to the Wing, but this is a purely personal opinion.
Jan 17, 2018, 10:25 am
#138
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Bay Area California
Posts: 395
hey y'all -
Traveling SFO-LAX-LIM in a couple of weeks - SFO-LAX is on VX and LAX-LIM on LP (separate tickets... long story...) - given I made AA Plat in 2018 - do i qualify for access to the AA lounge @sfo since I have an international same day (south america) segment/connection on a oneworld partner? Should be allowed access at the oneworld lounge at LAX, but i am not sure about SFO.
AA & VX share the same terminal at SFO so access to the lounge would be very convenient.
Many Thanks
--HAF
Traveling SFO-LAX-LIM in a couple of weeks - SFO-LAX is on VX and LAX-LIM on LP (separate tickets... long story...) - given I made AA Plat in 2018 - do i qualify for access to the AA lounge @sfo since I have an international same day (south america) segment/connection on a oneworld partner? Should be allowed access at the oneworld lounge at LAX, but i am not sure about SFO.
AA & VX share the same terminal at SFO so access to the lounge would be very convenient.
Many Thanks
--HAF
Jan 17, 2018, 10:53 am
#139
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Austin
Programs: AA EXP +2MM- LT PLT! HH Diamond
Posts: 6,086
hey y'all -
Traveling SFO-LAX-LIM in a couple of weeks - SFO-LAX is on VX and LAX-LIM on LP (separate tickets... long story...) - given I made AA Plat in 2018 - do i qualify for access to the AA lounge @sfo since I have an international same day (south america) segment/connection on a oneworld partner? Should be allowed access at the oneworld lounge at LAX, but i am not sure about SFO.
AA & VX share the same terminal at SFO so access to the lounge would be very convenient.
Many Thanks
--HAF
Traveling SFO-LAX-LIM in a couple of weeks - SFO-LAX is on VX and LAX-LIM on LP (separate tickets... long story...) - given I made AA Plat in 2018 - do i qualify for access to the AA lounge @sfo since I have an international same day (south america) segment/connection on a oneworld partner? Should be allowed access at the oneworld lounge at LAX, but i am not sure about SFO.
AA & VX share the same terminal at SFO so access to the lounge would be very convenient.
Many Thanks
--HAF
No issues accessing either the AA Flagship Lounge and/or the OW Business Lounge in LAX.
Jan 17, 2018, 11:35 am
#140
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Maître-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
hey y'all -
Traveling SFO-LAX-LIM in a couple of weeks - SFO-LAX is on VX and LAX-LIM on LP (separate tickets... long story...) - given I made AA Plat in 2018 - do i qualify for access to the AA lounge @sfo since I have an international same day (south america) segment/connection on a oneworld partner? Should be allowed access at the oneworld lounge at LAX, but i am not sure about SFO.
AA & VX share the same terminal at SFO so access to the lounge would be very convenient.
Many Thanks
--HAF
Traveling SFO-LAX-LIM in a couple of weeks - SFO-LAX is on VX and LAX-LIM on LP (separate tickets... long story...) - given I made AA Plat in 2018 - do i qualify for access to the AA lounge @sfo since I have an international same day (south america) segment/connection on a oneworld partner? Should be allowed access at the oneworld lounge at LAX, but i am not sure about SFO.
AA & VX share the same terminal at SFO so access to the lounge would be very convenient.
Many Thanks
--HAF
You do have a qualifying international flight on a oneworld flight on the same day, so you will be welcomed at the oneworld (operated by Qantas) Business Lounge in LAX.
Jun 29, 2018, 4:47 am
#141
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Munich / London
Programs: BAEC Gold, M&M Frequent Flyer
Posts: 156
Guesting in JFK - One World flights, different terminals (T7 / T8)
Hello All,
I have a question about guesting into the Flagship Lounge at JFK T8 or BA Lounge at T7 as an alternative.
I am spending a few days in New York with a friend and while we are on different flights, we are leaving on the same night (within one hour of each other). I am on a BA flight to LHR, leaving from T7. I am OneWorld Emerald travelling in First. My friend is travelling on CX to Vancouver, leaving from T8. She has no status and travels Economy.
I have read up that I should be able to guest her into any One World lounge based on my status even though we are not on the same flight.
Does anyone here know whether I can guest her into the BA Lounge at T7 if her flights leaves from T8 or do we need to depart from the same terminal (albeit on different flights)?
On a side note, I wouldn't mind using the Flagship Lounge at T8 as the showers in the BA Lounge are being refurbished when I'm there, but could I use the Lounge at T8 and then go across to T7? I assume that I would need to go landside and go through Security again, correct?
Thank you very much for any advice regulars have.
I have a question about guesting into the Flagship Lounge at JFK T8 or BA Lounge at T7 as an alternative.
I am spending a few days in New York with a friend and while we are on different flights, we are leaving on the same night (within one hour of each other). I am on a BA flight to LHR, leaving from T7. I am OneWorld Emerald travelling in First. My friend is travelling on CX to Vancouver, leaving from T8. She has no status and travels Economy.
I have read up that I should be able to guest her into any One World lounge based on my status even though we are not on the same flight.
Does anyone here know whether I can guest her into the BA Lounge at T7 if her flights leaves from T8 or do we need to depart from the same terminal (albeit on different flights)?
On a side note, I wouldn't mind using the Flagship Lounge at T8 as the showers in the BA Lounge are being refurbished when I'm there, but could I use the Lounge at T8 and then go across to T7? I assume that I would need to go landside and go through Security again, correct?
Thank you very much for any advice regulars have.
Last edited by Inselhuepfer; Jun 29, 2018 at 5:10 am Reason: Re-posing my original question - part-answered
Jun 29, 2018, 5:11 am
#142
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: RDU <|> MMX
Programs: AA EXP 2MM, SK EBS
Posts: 12,443
Hello All,
I have a question about guesting into the Flagship Lounge at JFK T8.
I am spending a few days in New York with a friend and while we are on different flights, we are leaving on the same night (within one hour of each other). I am on a BA flight to LHR, leaving from T7. I am OneWorld Emerald travelling in First. My friend is travelling on CX to Vancouver, leaving from T8. She has no status and travels Economy.
Does anyone here know whether I could guest her into the Flagship Lounge at JFK T8? I realise I'd forego the Concorde Room, but I assume that she couldn't get into T7 to join me in the BA Lounge, correct?
I know that BA allows one guest for Golds and they don't have to be on the same flight but they need to travel on a One World partner. Does AA have the same rules?
Thank you very much for any advice regulars have.
I have a question about guesting into the Flagship Lounge at JFK T8.
I am spending a few days in New York with a friend and while we are on different flights, we are leaving on the same night (within one hour of each other). I am on a BA flight to LHR, leaving from T7. I am OneWorld Emerald travelling in First. My friend is travelling on CX to Vancouver, leaving from T8. She has no status and travels Economy.
Does anyone here know whether I could guest her into the Flagship Lounge at JFK T8? I realise I'd forego the Concorde Room, but I assume that she couldn't get into T7 to join me in the BA Lounge, correct?
I know that BA allows one guest for Golds and they don't have to be on the same flight but they need to travel on a One World partner. Does AA have the same rules?
Thank you very much for any advice regulars have.
Jul 3, 2018, 4:35 am
#143
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Munich / London
Programs: BAEC Gold, M&M Frequent Flyer
Posts: 156
A belated thank you very much for the quick response, JJeffrey! I am re-thinking this whole enterprise, it just doesn't seem worth it, in particular as I have to get on a train to change terminals. But it's good to know if it ever comes up again.
Nov 27, 2018, 1:28 pm
#145
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: RDU <|> MMX
Programs: AA EXP 2MM, SK EBS
Posts: 12,443
Yes by the rules, assuming you're talking about a non-AA oneworld emerald, but expect to be given some looks and/or have the BA lounge dragons refuse entry since your flight isn't from that terminal. Why would you be using the BA lounge in T7 instead of the AA Flagship Lounge in T8, where your JFK-LAX flight will depart?
May 8, 2019, 6:46 pm
#147
Suspended
Join Date: Nov 1999
Posts: 24,153
Its been over a decade since I last flew on AA TATL
I have an upcoming Y tkt that goes JFK-CLT-TATL I know as a LT Plat I can enter the Lounge in CLT, but can I @ JFK as well? Its all 1 tkt(PNR) I know with UA I have access as long as my Intl segment is the same day, but no idea what AAs policy is
I have an upcoming Y tkt that goes JFK-CLT-TATL I know as a LT Plat I can enter the Lounge in CLT, but can I @ JFK as well? Its all 1 tkt(PNR) I know with UA I have access as long as my Intl segment is the same day, but no idea what AAs policy is
May 9, 2019, 3:30 am
#149
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Maître-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
Its been over a decade since I last flew on AA TATL
I have an upcoming Y tkt that goes JFK-CLT-TATL I know as a LT Plat I can enter the Lounge in CLT, but can I @ JFK as well? Its all 1 tkt(PNR) I know with UA I have access as long as my Intl segment is the same day, but no idea what AAs policy is
I have an upcoming Y tkt that goes JFK-CLT-TATL I know as a LT Plat I can enter the Lounge in CLT, but can I @ JFK as well? Its all 1 tkt(PNR) I know with UA I have access as long as my Intl segment is the same day, but no idea what AAs policy is
May 9, 2019, 4:31 am
#150
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Austin
Programs: AA EXP +2MM- LT PLT! HH Diamond
Posts: 6,086
Its been over a decade since I last flew on AA TATL
I have an upcoming Y tkt that goes JFK-CLT-TATL I know as a LT Plat I can enter the Lounge in CLT, but can I @ JFK as well? Its all 1 tkt(PNR) I know with UA I have access as long as my Intl segment is the same day, but no idea what AAs policy is
I have an upcoming Y tkt that goes JFK-CLT-TATL I know as a LT Plat I can enter the Lounge in CLT, but can I @ JFK as well? Its all 1 tkt(PNR) I know with UA I have access as long as my Intl segment is the same day, but no idea what AAs policy is