ARCHIVE: 2020 Admirals Club / Lounges As Of Reopening 22 Jun 2020; Openings, etc.
Jul 3, 2020, 7:21 pm
#106
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Vail, CO
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Any word on changes to LAX with our new "temporary" restrictions around bars again? Id think since they sell a good amount of food the AC would be exempt but who knows
Jul 4, 2020, 6:11 am
#107
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 4,115
PHL they offer to bring you coffee and soda, but ask that you go to the bar for alcohol. Bar offerings were normal, credit cards accepted normally. Drinks served in plastic cups though.
Jul 4, 2020, 8:14 am
#108
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Thanks! So customers cannot approach the coffee station at all, right? I ask because sometimes I just want a few splashes of coffee in my cup to stay hot and keep refilling it as needed. Might be annoying for the server to keep coming over to check, but I guess that's the world we live in now.
Jul 4, 2020, 12:13 pm
#109
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 4,115
Thanks! So customers cannot approach the coffee station at all, right? I ask because sometimes I just want a few splashes of coffee in my cup to stay hot and keep refilling it as needed. Might be annoying for the server to keep coming over to check, but I guess that's the world we live in now.
Jul 6, 2020, 7:00 pm
#113
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: TLV now - formerly LAS
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DFW A now has grab and go oranges and bananas in bowls by the bar and elsewhere. There is no hand sanitizer by the fruit so be careful as others may have contaminated it.
Jul 6, 2020, 7:43 pm
#114
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: MSY
Programs: BA GfL
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Jul 7, 2020, 3:46 am
#115
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: British Columbia
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I would be worried about any contaminants transferred to your hand(s) that will remain there long after the banana is eaten. Don't forget to wash your hands, otherwise a sudden itchy nose or a rub of an eye is all it takes. Most lounges I have been in wrap the fresh fruit, however even wrapped fresh fruit isn't risk free. Low risk, yes! Risk free, no!
James
Jul 7, 2020, 6:48 am
#116
Join Date: Apr 2003
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I would be worried about any contaminants transferred to your hand(s) that will remain there long after the banana is eaten. Don't forget to wash your hands, otherwise a sudden itchy nose or a rub of an eye is all it takes. Most lounges I have been in wrap the fresh fruit, however even wrapped fresh fruit isn't risk free. Low risk, yes! Risk free, no!
Jul 7, 2020, 9:26 am
#117
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Jul 7, 2020, 9:26 am
#118
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Wrapped fruit is exactly as risky (i.e., near zero) as unwrapped fruit, because presumably the same hands would be touching the wrapping. Plastic wrap does not have magic virus-killing qualities (and probably allows virus particles to last longer than they would on the skin of a banana). Yes, wash your hands after eating either one.
Lounges are reopening but I wouldn't expect a pre COVID-19 experience for at least another year. There could even be further closures even if AA remains solvent.
James
Jul 7, 2020, 10:53 am
#119
Join Date: Feb 2015
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Posts: 338
At CLT on Sunday, the AC food offering consisted of a bag with small round plastic containers of nuts, fruit-flavored candy, and samples of legacy AC items consisting of the miscellaneous carbohydrates mix that used to be in the large clear containers, two small yellow cheese cubes and a pack of two Carr's crackers. A downgrade of a downgrade, but at least it was something, and the AC was very clean and not that crowded.
Jul 9, 2020, 6:32 am
#120
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: San Francisco
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Which Club is open at CLT? I was there yesterday and noted that the one located before D and E gates was closed. Maybe I walked past the entrance on the C terminal as I now see that that's the AC that was open. The entrance/exit for D/E maybe just closed. Wish there was a sign posted there if that was the case.
Using the App wasn't helpful as I was at least expecting it to indicate which one was open perhaps. Instead, I had to keep closing/opening it as the AC locations "disappeared from the app. I took that as a hint and just exited the airport. I will be in PHL tomorrow and maybe I'll have better luck when I depart.
Using the App wasn't helpful as I was at least expecting it to indicate which one was open perhaps. Instead, I had to keep closing/opening it as the AC locations "disappeared from the app. I took that as a hint and just exited the airport. I will be in PHL tomorrow and maybe I'll have better luck when I depart.
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