UKtravelbear

There is a flyer talk BA board meet up thread but overt requests for lounge guesting are frowned upon.

Am sure your mother will enjoy the Club lounge though given your early flight time you won’t have a lot of time what ever lounge you access.

Sisyphus1carus

:-)
Yeah I remembered she's not 73 until a few days into the break !!
Thanks for the reply.
Didn't realise the lounge only opened at 5am along with bag drop so won:t have really any time in any lounge !!

McG

I passed through the TP threshold for Silver overnight.
The BA website shows Bronze but Silver achieved. The BA app shows Bronze but only 3 of 4 qualifying flights - I believe this is a bug in the app as I have flown 16 sectors with BA or on a BA codeshare.

I have a flight later tonight from LGW. Will I be able to access the lounge?

BertieBadger

So, this gets asked in some variation or another quite frequently. The timescale is usually that your TPs will post after a couple of days, and the app/website will say "[next level] achieved" but still shows the current level. It will usually take one more day for the status change to fully reflect in the app & website. You may want to try logging out and in again to see if it helps, but it probably won't update until tomorrow.

Now, formally, you're not Silver until BA says you are - and that's when their systems update to reflect that fact. Until that point, you have no formal entitlement to lounge usage purely based on status.

In practice however, many people have reported success by the procedure of showing the earned TPs to the lounge guardians and politely requesting access on the basis that the system simply hasn't updated yet. Acceptance is by no means universal - but anecdotally I've seen more reports of success than failure and I would think LGW is more likely to have a positive outcome as well. If you are unfortunately refused you should of course accept it with good grace, since as noted, the entitlement doesn't exist until the system fully updates.

Bigdanm

We are travelling DUB-LHR-MIA on Avios reward flights. DUB-LHR is in EuroTraveller with LHR-MIA in Club World.

I read that access is granted to lounges on short haul segments when connecting to a qualifying Long Haul flight in Club,

Will I therefore be granted access to the lounge in DUB given it is not a BA operated lounge ?

george77300

I am BA Gold so on my Iberia Express, booked as a BA codeshare (BA7289), I should get access to the First class lounge I assume even though I2 is technically not Oneworld?

Secondly I have a friend on the same flight, separate booking and no status. He is booked as an Iberia codeshare (IB3717), not I2. So as his flight number is IB (not I2) can I take him as a guest into the F lounge?

Thanks.

Lefly

For what I know there should be no problem with lounge access and guesting in this case.

KARFA

I2 are a oneworld affiliate (like KA is) so normal lounge access would apply.

zkzkz

I lost my BA Silver but managed to swing AA platinum (sapphire) through a status challenge.

Right now I have my seats selected for my next trip as a sapphire using my AA number.

But I think I'll earn a lot more miles with BA so I'm thinking of switching The FF number to BA.

I shouldn't expect any problem at the lounge if my boarding pass is my BA blue but I have the card for my AA account should I?

wilsnunn

When somebody has been guested into the lounge can they then enter on their own accord later on? i.e. if I guest somebody in and then my flight leaves, they leave the lounge to do something but then head back afterwards, will they be allowed in given that they have already been in earlier on that day?

wilsnunn

Pretty sure there will not be any issues with this. I have not done it personally but have seen mention of it here before a few times.

veeRob

I think the answer is yes, but the charts are so confused I figured I'd ask.

Flying out of JFK in a couple of weeks with a friend who's AA Executive Platinum (Emerald) and we're flying US domestic in business. AA won't give us lounge access, but if I'm reading the rules correctly, we would be able to access the BA First Lounge in T7 assuming TSA would let us through? We have a ton of time to kill, that's why I asked.

Thanks in advance for clarification, apologies if this has been covered and I missed it.

Vasco Pridat

yes. good idea.

gotta realize .. BA does not have TSA pre. you gotta take out everything from the bag. just leave the shoes on :-)

you can still use the first and C line

Tobias-UK

Which airline are you flying on?

veeRob

Great tip, thank you. Maybe we'll lighten our loads by checking a bag at T8 before going through security at T7, hmmm...

AA.