BA SFO Lounge - Made to go to the China Airlines lounge
Apr 16, 2019, 6:07 pm
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BA SFO Lounge - Made to go to the China Airlines lounge
Just currently got to SFO and have been told by BA that i must use the Air China lounge even though there is a Cathy lounge (who did turn me away when I went to enter as I thought that the women at check in got it wrong.) Does anyone know why they are using a Skyteam lounge instead of a Oneworld? I am currently guessing it is due to BA's love of cutting costs at any given oppotunity.
Apr 16, 2019, 6:34 pm
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Indeed, but I do not understand why I am being put in a Skyteam lounge when there is a oneworld (Cathy) down the corridor even though the Oneworld site clearly states that I can use the Cathy lounge
Apr 16, 2019, 7:47 pm
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For the record, Air China is Star Alliance, not Skyteam (China Airlines, from Taiwan, is Skyteam as are China Eastern, and historically China Southern).
Apr 17, 2019, 2:30 am
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That is the current policy - OWE and OWS to Cathay, every other passenger eligible for lounge access uses the China Airlines lounge. The gatekeeper at the CA lounge wouldn't even let me in, even though I was flying Club World.
Apr 17, 2019, 8:59 am
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Anyway, for capacity reasons and the current arrangement they have with China Airlines, I think they're doing an OK job of splitting traffic between the two lounges, and this will be the reason for denied entry - more control over who goes to which.
However, that was a 777. In May I'll be doing the 286 on an A380 with more than twice the capacity. I cannot imagine how that will work to be honest, given how full the lounges were with a 777.
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Apr 17, 2019, 9:05 am
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Apr 17, 2019, 9:46 am
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I'm Silver, was flying CW, but as it was the a380 I'm guessing the lounges would have been pretty busy (priority queue to board was bad enough)
Apr 18, 2019, 2:56 pm
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Just currently got to SFO and have been told by BA that i must use the Air China lounge even though there is a Cathy lounge (who did turn me away when I went to enter as I thought that the women at check in got it wrong.) Does anyone know why they are using a Skyteam lounge instead of a Oneworld? I am currently guessing it is due to BA's love of cutting costs at any given oppotunity.
Apr 18, 2019, 4:34 pm
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Just currently got to SFO and have been told by BA that i must use the Air China lounge even though there is a Cathy lounge (who did turn me away when I went to enter as I thought that the women at check in got it wrong.) Does anyone know why they are using a Skyteam lounge instead of a Oneworld? I am currently guessing it is due to BA's love of cutting costs at any given oppotunity.
Apr 18, 2019, 9:10 pm
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As has been eluded to above, my experience has been CW is Air China lounge, F or Gold is Cathay lounge. In the case of the latter, they rather amusingly welcome you in by saying, "please enjoy our lounge - but don't eat the noodles, BA haven't paid for them"