SFO - MEX: Best routing option for AA Flagship Dining
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Your profile shows that you are AA PL so you while your itinerary doesn't permit access to Flagship Dining at LAX, if you are traveling to Mexico City then you actually qualify for access to the Flagship Lounge at LAX and even the temporary Premium Lounge if connecting via DFW in two ways:
- Your PL status, regardless of cabin, to MEX (from the AA site):
Qualifying AAdvantage Executive Platinum, Platinum Pro and Platinum
Get access if youre departing on or connecting to a qualifying international flight marketed and operated by American or a oneworld airline (regardless of cabin). - Regardless of status, by flying in a premium cabin to MEX:
Get access if youre traveling in First or Business on a qualifying international or transcontinental flight marketed and operated by American or a oneworld airline.
Qualifying international flights
Flights between the U.S. and:
Mexico City (MEX)
#47
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Weeeeeeellllll that might be a bit of a stretch. I highly doubt that passersby could care less about who comes in or out and even so who in their right mind would care?
People walking by are wondering must you be famous and/or rich is about as real as my push for official recognition of terminal swagger which surprisingly has still not found acceptance in the venerated halls of the medical community. Real class has nothing to do with any imaginary status granted by blindly spending on some airline or the location of a seat on a plane.
Now, holding a 77W past D0 for a single pax or tarmac transfers in an Escalade are quite a bit more interesting .
People walking by are wondering must you be famous and/or rich is about as real as my push for official recognition of terminal swagger which surprisingly has still not found acceptance in the venerated halls of the medical community. Real class has nothing to do with any imaginary status granted by blindly spending on some airline or the location of a seat on a plane.
Now, holding a 77W past D0 for a single pax or tarmac transfers in an Escalade are quite a bit more interesting .
To some degree, I think bypassers DO care about those coming and going into lounges. Well, at least enough do that it appears that people are always trying to enter and hold up the line when Ive entered at SFO lately.
Then when theyre turned away they inevitably start looking at the queued people as they walk away. Sometimes I wonder if I tell the agents Id like to guess that person in, would that be accepted.
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To some degree, I think bypassers DO care about those coming and going into lounges. Well, at least enough do that it appears that people are always trying to enter and hold up the line when Ive entered at SFO lately.
Then when theyre turned away they inevitably start looking at the queued people as they walk away. Sometimes I wonder if I tell the agents Id like to guess that person in, would that be accepted.
There are some airports (LAX T4, CLT B/C, LGA) where the ACs are a godsend from the crowded, cramped and usually dirty gate areas.
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Ok.. the time has come for me... Anyone else off to DFW from SFO (AA 1198) and/or MEX (AA 2233). Looking for a fellow FT member to meet/greet along the way. PM me if interested. Will be arriving term A at DFW and departing term C if AC access is desired too.
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I don't think this is what OP was referring to. I assume they meant Flagship First Dining, not the "buffet" in the FL
Currently this is only in LAX , MIA and JFK... Not "Dallas"
https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/...rst-dining.jsp
Currently this is only in LAX , MIA and JFK... Not "Dallas"
https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/...rst-dining.jsp
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Wait... is the holdup on the Flagship Lounge at DFW like the rumored holdup at PHL with the fact that the lounge will be in a different county issue? My immediate thoughts are that since USAirways took over American, they'd be more concerned/dedicated with having Flagship Lounges at PHL, CLT and PHX prior to the launching at other sites.
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Wait... is the holdup on the Flagship Lounge at DFW like the rumored holdup at PHL with the fact that the lounge will be in a different county issue? My immediate thoughts are that since USAirways took over American, they'd be more concerned/dedicated with having Flagship Lounges at PHL, CLT and PHX prior to the launching at other sites.
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Showers in PHL and CLT make sense because presumably there are a number of red-eyes arriving in the morning from the west coast, and a shower on arrival is necessary for a business traveler who wants to go straight to work.
That said, I generally don't do domestic red-eyes - I think the only time I've ever taken (or even wanted) a shower in a US airport was at LAX on on HKG-LAX-JFK.