Arranguez

I wonder how many people try the fully flex ticket "cheat". It would be nice if the lounge staff had this sort of thing come up on their screens when the cancellation happened so they could tannoy the person(s) and have a polite word about leaving should the person have entered a lounge. Probably impractical and too confrontational - not to mention an awful lot of effort on both sides of the equation!

Tobias-UK

That plan, I'm afraid, could cause the perpetrator to fall foul of the Fraud Act 2006.

shorthauldad

No-one actually does it, it gets mentioned here every so often purely to wind people up...

See what I mean?

steve170461

just reporting in from the BA F lounge in T3.

stifle

Can we please not kick that debate off again?

Flying Winemaker

So as well as excluding people who are entitled, they are letting in people who are not! (Gold card holder but not on a oneworld flight. Open Doors was enhanced away ages ago.)

No disrespect to steve170461, in fact he should be thanked for exposing yet again the dysfunctional state of lounge access rule application.

xenole

Probably in here somewhere, but a question regarding Concorde Room access.

If I fly First from HKG-LHR, I can use CR Arrivals.
If I were to tag on say a same day LHR-MAN domestic flight, would this get me access to the CR as I had come in on a First ticket?

Added: Seems f\ine from Page24.

One other thing.
If I were to go to CR arrivals, can I get to the CR proper from there or so I have to go groundside, re-clear security and get in that way?

nh1980

Yes, arriving on a F flight should get you equivalent lounge access for your connection. By CR arrivals I assume you mean the small waiter service dining room for F pax/CCR in the Arrivals lounge? That is landside so yes you would have to go out and come back in via Departures and security etc. I would just stay airside personally and go to the CCR proper unless of course you really want to see it and tick it off the list

continentalclub

Concorde Room Arrivals is landside; it's part of the overall Arrivals Lounge set-up.

If you're connecting onward from T5, there's no obvious reason why you would use a landside lounge - or at least there's no obvious reason why you would go landside just to use a lounge (unless you want a bath rather than a shower).

Whether you head landside or not, you will have to re-clear UK security though.

And depending on queues it can actually, on occasion, be quicker for F passengers to go landside and then head through South Security and the white door to the CR, than to go through airside Flight Connections (which is at the North end of T5) and then walk back to the CR.

NeverFirst

Now, before anyone says "of course not unless you're arriving from a long-haul Club or First", this page says (or suggests) otherwise;

http://www.britishairways.com/travel...s/public/en_en

Has this changed, or does it mean that an AA Sapphire member gets in but a BA Sapphire member doesn't (which is strange).

Thoughts?

nh1980

That is really strange wording! Not only does it suggest that (a) any oneworld Sapphire can access the lounge but (from the previous sentence) excludes BA's own Silvers. (b) it also seems to get rid of the longhaul requirement i.e. anyone doing a random MAN-LHR trip can pop into the lounge!

Must be a mistake, there isn't really capacity for more people to access this I think. Well there is but would make it crowded...

paulwuk

Interesting. Means an AA platinum gets access arriving off a flight from Brussels or Manchester?

(meanwhile those long haul routes in t1 have no such luck)

nw6338

Hi,

I will be arriving into London from JFK on a First ticket using Avios. I am connecting on a separate, new reservation to Athens due to no reward availability. Since I am arriving from a first class flight on the same day, will I have concorde room access even though I would now be traveling on a separate reservation?

I have to pay cash for the flight from London to Athens-- is it worth it to pay for club on this short flight (3.5 hrs) ?? If I only pay for economy will I have any sort of lounge access at Heathrow after arriving in First?


Thanks,

malkie

You'll have CCR access before heading to Athens.
Just keep your F boarding pass

3.5 hours is enough (in my opinion) for a bit of extra space.

David-A

Assuming the First class flight is operated by British Airways, yes you should be allowed into the the CCR. Do keep your boarding pass from your inbound flight to show for access.

That is the longer end of the shorthual, generally speaking I would have said NO, keep your money.
However it depends upon what the price difference is, given that it is the longer end. Additionally it might well depend upon whether you want/need the higher Tier Points from that flight in your current membership year if chasing/retaining status.

If you arrive same day on BA F, you should have CCR access.
If you arrive same day on another OneWorld airlines F class, you should have access to the BA F lounge.

Keep your boarding pass from the inbound flight to show, given you are not on the same booking.

Make sure you get your luggage through checked to ATH from JFK. As you are on separate bookings the checking people won't see the onward flight, have details of your booking and they will through check the bag to ATH.