BA Lounge Confusion
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To give a sensible anwer to the OP's question:
Galleries Club & Terraces - Buisness class lounges, access for business class travellers, BA silver card holders, ane oneworld sapphire
Galleries First - first class lounges, access for first class travellers, BA gold card holders, ane oneworld emeralds
The Concorde Room - first class lounge, access only for first class travellers on BA metal and BA CCR card holders, not a oneworld lounge so no access with a oneworld emerald card
The level of provision in each lounge increases as you go up the scale.
Galleries Club & Terraces - Buisness class lounges, access for business class travellers, BA silver card holders, ane oneworld sapphire
Galleries First - first class lounges, access for first class travellers, BA gold card holders, ane oneworld emeralds
The Concorde Room - first class lounge, access only for first class travellers on BA metal and BA CCR card holders, not a oneworld lounge so no access with a oneworld emerald card
The level of provision in each lounge increases as you go up the scale.
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Thank you for your reply. I suppose they don't have Concorde Room and Galleries First in the same airports? Nor Galleries Business and Terraces Business? They have so many different branded lounges, it just seems rather confusing and curious to me that BA would have such a branding mess like this.
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Funny though, so, at LHR AND JFK, BA F pax could use either CCR or GF but why use GF when CCR is more exclusive? So I expect then that GF at both LHR and JFK are filled with F pax traveling on other carriers but are allowed access? Seems like they should get rid of GF at these places, unless of course, GF offers amenities the CCR doesn't. Otherwise, seems like BA is just operating a lounge for other airlines F pax at LHR and JFK, in addition to their own, exclusive lounge. Or are these GF lounges in London and New York for the business class pax as well?
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Ah, I see. got it. Thank you clearing it up for me. Much appreciated. ^
Funny though, so, at LHR AND JFK, BA F pax could use either CCR or GF but why use GF when CCR is more exclusive? So I expect then that GF at both LHR and JFK are filled with F pax tarvelling on other carriers but are allowed access? Seems like they should get rid of GF at these places, unless of course, GF offers amenities the CCR doesn't. Otherwise, seems like BA is just operating a lounge for other airlines F pax at LHR and JFK, in addition to their own, exclusive lounge. Or are these GF lounges in London and New York for the business class pax as well?
Funny though, so, at LHR AND JFK, BA F pax could use either CCR or GF but why use GF when CCR is more exclusive? So I expect then that GF at both LHR and JFK are filled with F pax tarvelling on other carriers but are allowed access? Seems like they should get rid of GF at these places, unless of course, GF offers amenities the CCR doesn't. Otherwise, seems like BA is just operating a lounge for other airlines F pax at LHR and JFK, in addition to their own, exclusive lounge. Or are these GF lounges in London and New York for the business class pax as well?
The Galleries First lounges can also be used by BA Gold Card holders and Oneworld Emerald card holders ( in any cabin) when flying a Oneworld airline
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The latest lounges are branded simply as 'British Airways Lounge'.
BA appear to have dropped the Galleries brand for their new lounges.
BA appear to have dropped the Galleries brand for their new lounges.
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This is the same principle as all oneworld lounges where there are multiple oneworld airlines in the same terminal eg. BA pays CX a fee for each of their passengers who use their lounges at HKG.