xliioper

Both BA and CX have lounges at YVR.

controller1

There is a BA lounge and a LeAnfore lounge at FCO Rome as OW lounges.

dkc192

Right, but they are not accessible to transborder passengers.

eponymous_coward

AA has 6 flights a day out of YVR, and it's not an international location that gets you free lounge access. Not much of a surprise to not invest in a tiny station.

NavSTL

Not to sidetrack, but: I wouldn't say the Prestige is washed up. Mine has already paid for itself twice over this year with the fourth-night-free benefit and MUCH more generous purchase protection than any other card in class (like when I straight-up lost my brand new prescription Ray-Bans and had the full amount credited back in two weeks, with no more hassle than sending the receipt and my good word). ThankYou points aren't worth as much as they could be, true, but if used wisely the card's still a solid investment. AC access isn't everything (and, heck, for those living overseas, it really isn't anything—PLT does the job on international trips).

Reetmafreen

T mobile works fine up there. If you have a post paid plan and sign up for international access. Calls, text and roaming data are included in your plan at no additional cost. Same goes for Mexico too.

muishkin

Nobody mentioned SLC yet? I mean it sucks that there is no shower capable AC when you are flying red-eye out if SLC immediately aftet an entire day at Snowbird and Alta.

pauleeepaul

Several = 2.

teemuflyer

Not sure why the quotes for "international"??

captaink

Two more than Delta, by that metric.

If you want to get picky, sure, you can't access any of AA's euro partner lounges if you have a membership, but aren't flying AA. I don't think that edge case really applies in a discussion about airports where AA flyers don't have access to a lounge, despite a relatively high # of flights or international business class service.

N1120A

The T5 lounge is going into the nice former Delta space, so it should be nice.

I believe the GSO lounge was built by US with the idea that they were sharing with UA. Still, given all the traffic AA has through there, it makes sense to keep.

It actually stayed open for a bit after the merger. That lounge was awesome, with absolutely lovely ladies staffing the desk.

Closing GSO would seem to be counter productive.

Location.

A ton of people used the Prestige to get in, like they did the AMEX Plat before.

I really don't see how it would benefit AA to have a lounge at YVR. As was mentioned, they have very few flights there.

Yup. Also, T-Mobile gives you full speed data in Canada and Mexico, as opposed to a throttle.

LovePrunes

There is a lounge in Greensboro because because it's a legacy airport for Piedmont Airlines, which was bought by USAir. Winston-Salem's Smith Reynolds Airport, INT, was the original headquarters for Piedmont, and is just about 15 miles from GSO. FYI. Piedmont's "Presidential Suites" as the clubs were known, were started in 1982 when it opened them at 16 airports. If you had to pick the top 16 airports that the mid-Atlantic based Piedmont was serving in the early 80's, GSO was easily one of them. I assume there was also one at INT but I don't know. Thus the presence of the club lounge at GSO.

Eventually by January 2000 all passenger flights for the city moved from INT to GSO. At it's peak in the early 1980s' INT had nonstop flights to New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Washington DC, direct service to Denver, and puddle jumper flights to literally every Piedmont city in VA/NC/SC. Nonstop flights to probably 20 - 30 cities, including INT-GSO! CLT eventually became the place they built a nearby hub in 1981 after airline deregulation in the 1970s, and CLT as a hub far exceeded service at GSO or INT. Piedmont's other hubs at BWI and DAY were in place by 1983,

So the club in GSO has nothing to do with United. Even after Piedmont was merged into USAir, the city of Winston-Salem was home for many years to the largest reservation center and HQ for the frequent flyer program before it was merged into AAdvantage. INT was the heavy maintenance base for Piedmont as well.

Wikipedia has good info here about INT.

TSparky

I often arrive at LAX an hour early because of traffic planning. I have been stuck on the 405 in stop-and-go traffic for 10 miles on my way to LAX. On Sunday morning. If I miss my flight, it often means I miss a day of work because there is no space for 24 hours.

MiamiAirport Formerly NY George

Now that the ACs have moved beyond just muffins in the morning and pretzels at night I can actually have a meal in the ACs. Sometimes its nice just to relax an hour before flight. As far as the future, maybe a new AC here or there (LAS, MSP, DTW) but that's about it.

Reetmafreen

I drove up to LAX on Friday night from San Diego to catch a flight on United (first flight on United since US Airways exited Star Alliance, but only because UA is the only US airline with scheduled service to my intended destination and with the AAdvantage changes, I'm going the free agent route, so no guilt there). With it being a holiday weekend I departed 5.5 hrs before my scheduled departure, but traffic was almost non existent, so I was dropping off the rental about 1hr and 50 mins after I left the house. In fact the worst traffic I saw was from the Avis lot to T7! After checking in, my wife and I headed off to the Red Carpet Club with 3 hrs to wait. I have no status with United/SA and I only have AC membership, but as my final destination was international, even though it was just Mexico, as I was flying 1st, that unlocked access to the United Club. (Try doing that with AA)

All I have to say is the the AC club in T4 should be embarrassed at the state of that club when compared to the United Red Carpet Club! Talk about night and day! If it had been a little warmer that night, I would have hung out on the little terrace overlooking the apron and would have been in aviation heaven.