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BA lounges : COVID-19 closures and reopenings

Old Jul 3, 2020, 10:51 am
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List of Lounges Currently OPEN to BA Passengers (open wiki for details)

This wiki includes details of open lounges accessible to premium (F/J or Gold/Silver) passengers travelling on BA operated services, either within the terminal BA depart from or accessible via airside transfer.

Other lounges may be accessible for passengers willing to transfer landside to other terminals or concourses, although this is generally not recommended due to time constraints as a result of needing to re-clear security. Additionally, some airports may offer pay-in lounges which are not otherwise accessible by BA premium passengers (either temporarily or permanently).

Most open lounges are operating with a limited food and beverage service, and other services may be unavailable or modified.

For opening hours, please check the oneworld lounge listing at https://www.oneworld.com/airport-lounges?location= which is now being regularly updated.

If your airport isn't listed below, this probably means there is no lounge available for BA premium passengers (either temporarily or permanently) - please check the oneworld listing for the most up-to-date information.

British Airways Lounges
Aberdeen British Airways Lounge
Boston British Airways Lounge (First Dining is unverified)
Cape Town British Airways Lounge
Chicago British Airways Lounge (First lounge is permanently closed)
Dubai British Airways Lounge (BA First passengers and oneworld Emerald members on BA flights only, The Bar is unverified)
Edinburgh British Airways Lounge
Geneva British Airways Lounge
Glasgow British Airways Lounge
Johannesburg British Airways Lounge (First Dining is unverified)
New York JFK British Airways/American Airlines Greenwich Lounge, Soho Lounge, Chelsea Lounge
New York Newark British Airways Lounge (First Dining is unverified)
Lagos British Airways Lounge
London Gatwick British Airways First Lounge, Club Lounge
London Heathrow Terminal 3 British Airways Galleries First, Galleries Club

London Heathrow Terminal 5 British Airways Concorde Room, Galleries First, Galleries Club South, Galleries Club North, Galleries Club T5B, Galleries Arrivals
Milan Linate British Airways Lounge
Philadelphia British Airways Lounge (First lounge and First Dining are unverified)
Rome British Airways Lounge
San Francisco British Airways Lounge (First Dining is "accessible". See post 4222: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/34492191-post4222.html)
Seattle British Airways Lounge (First lounge is unverified)
Singapore British Airways Lounge (The Bar is unverified)
Washington British Airways Lounge (First Dining is unverified)

Note that the BA-operated lounges at AMS, BHD, BRU, IAH, NCL, MAN and YVR have all closed permanently during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alternative oneworld or third party lounges are listed below. Note that the Elemis Travel Spas at LHR and JFK have been permanently closed.

Non-BA oneworld Lounges
Amman Royal Jordanian Crown Lounge
Atlanta
American Airlines Admirals Club North Terminal (AirTrain ride required)
Austin American Airlines Admirals Club
Bangkok Japan Airlines Sakura Lounge
Dallas American Airlines Admirals Club (multiple locations)
Denver American Airlines Admirals Club
Doha Qatar Airways Silver Lounge (BA Silver / OW Sapphire travelling in Y)
Doha Qatar Airways Al Mourjan Business Lounge (J class pax only - temporarily accepting BA Gold / OW Emerald in Y or W)
Doha Qatar Airways Al Safwa First Lounge (F class pax only)
Frankfurt Japan Airlines Sakura Lounge
Hong Kong Cathay Pacific The Wing, First (accepting F/J passengers and Gold/Silver cardholders)
Houston Terminal A American Airlines Admirals Club (airside transfer via AirTrain available to/from BA gates in Terminal D)
London Heathrow Terminal 3 Cathay Pacific Business and First Class lounges (open 05:30 to 17:30 Mon-Sat, 07:00 to 17:30 Sun)
London Heathrow Terminal 3 The Qantas International London Lounge (open daily 06:00 to 14:00)
Los Angeles Terminal 4 American Airlines Admirals Club & Flagship Lounge (airside walk to/from BA gates in TBIT)
Los Angeles Terminal 6 Alaska Lounge (airside walk to/from BA gates in TBIT)
Los Angeles Tom Bradley International Terminal OneWorld Lounge/Qantas Business & First Class Lounge
Madrid Iberia Premium Lounge Dalí / Iberia Premium Lounge Velázquez
Mexico City American Airlines Admirals Club
Miami American Airlines Admirals Club (multiple locations)
Miami American Airlines Flagship Lounge / Flagship First Dining Gate D30 ( Flagship First Dining only available to departing BA First Class passengers )
Nashville American Airlines Admirals Club
Paris Charles de Gaulle Terminal 2A American Airlines Admirals Club
Phoenix American Airlines Admirals Club (multiple locations)
Philadelphia Concourse B/C American Airlines Admirals Club (airside walk to/from BA gates in Concourse A)
San Francisco Terminal 1 American Airlines Admirals Club (airside walk to/from BA gates in International Terminal)
San Francisco Terminal 2 Alaska Lounge (airside walk to/from BA gates in International Terminal)
Sao Paulo Terminal 3 American Airlines Admirals Club
Singapore Qantas International Business Lounge

Seattle Alaska Lounge (airside transfer via AirTrain available to/from BA gates in Concourse S)
Tampa American Airlines Admirals Club
Tokyo Haneda Japan Airlines First Class Lounge (accepting F/J passengers and Gold/Silver cardholders)

The AA forum has further details of open Admirals Club lounges: Link

Third Party Lounges with active BA contracts
Accra Adinkra Lounge
Amsterdam Aspire Lounge
Athens Skyserv Aristotle Onassis Lounge
Antigua Executive Lounge
Atlanta The Club at ATL
Barcelona AENA Joan Miro Lounge
Bahrain The Pearl Lounge
Basel EuroAirport Skyview Lounge
Belfast Aspire Lounge
Berlin Lounge Tempelhof
Bologna Marconi Business Lounge
Bordeaux Salon des Vignobles

Bridgetown Airlines Executive Lounge / IAM Jet Centre
Brussels Diamond Lounge Pier B
Copenhagen Eventyr Lounge

DalamanCIP Lounge
Dallas The Club at DFW
Delhi Plaza Premium Lounge
Doha Oryx Lounge
Dubai Terminal 1 Marhaba Lounge
(BA Club World passengers and oneworld Sapphire members on BA flights only)
Dublin Dublin Airport Executive Lounge (reduced hours - 04:00-18.30 only, see here for latest details)
Düsseldorf Open Sky Lounge (Terminal C)
Faro ANA Lounge (non-Schengen only)
Florence Aeroporti VIP Club
Gibraltar Calpe Lounge
Grenada IAM Jet Centre

Hamburg Hamburg Airport Lounge
Hong Kong Plaza Premium Lounge
Houston HAS Executive Club

Ibiza VIP Sala Lounge
Istanbul IGA Lounge
Inverness Aspire Lounge
(open part-time, see post 3357)
Jersey Executive Lounge
Johannesburg Shongololo Lounge
Keflavík Saga Lounge
Krakow Business Lounge
Kingston Club Kingston
Larnaca Aspire Aphrodite Lounge
Las Vegas The Lounge at LAS (T3)
Lisbon ANA Lounge
Ljubljana Business Lounge
Lyons Salon Mont Blanc

Malaga Sala VIP Lounge
Male Leeli Lounge
Malta La Valette Club
Manchester T3 The Escape Lounge
Marseille Salon Cezanne Non-Schegen Lounge opposite gate 10

Milan Malpensa Montale Non-Schengen Lounge
Montreal National Bank Lounge
Moscow DME Domodedovo Airport Business Lounge
Mumbai MALS Premium Lounge
MunichAirport Lounge World
Nairobi TAV Lounge

Nassau The Lignum Club Lounge
Newcastle Aspire Lounge

Nice Infinity Lounge
Nuremberg Dürer Lounge
Oslo OSL Lounge
Palma Sala VIP Lounge
Phoenix Escape Lounge

Port Louis ATOL Lounge
Prague MasterCard Lounge
Rio de Janiero Plaza Premium
Riyadh Premier Lounge
Rotterdam Prima Vista Lounge
San Diego Aspire Lounge
(Sun, Mon, Wed, Fri departures only)
Sao Paulo LATAM VIP Lounge
Sofia Preslav Lounge

Southampton Spitfire Lounge
Split Business Lounge

St. Lucia (UVF) Iyanola Lounge
Stockholm (ARN) Norrsken Lounge

Tenerife Sala VIP Lounge
Tel Aviv Dan Lounge
Thessaloniki Manolis Andronikos Skyserv Lounge
Toronto Plaza Premium Lounge

Toulouse La Croix du Sud Lounge
Valencia Sala VIP Joan Olivert
Vancouver Plaza Premium Lounge
Warsaw Bolero Lounge

Zagreb Primeclass
Zurich Aspire Lounge
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BA lounges : COVID-19 closures and reopenings

Old Jul 28, 2021, 9:02 am
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Originally Posted by ianwall
Is Galleries Club South still operating reduced hours? I'm traveling Weds early evening and hoping only GF will be available.
For reference GC south was open until 5pm [Weds]. Reasonably impressed with the food selection, but a bit wasteful that the only way to get any crisps currently is to order the sandwich and crisps combo from the kids menu!




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Old Jul 28, 2021, 3:08 pm
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Originally Posted by ianwall
For reference GC south was open until 5pm [Weds]. Reasonably impressed with the food selection, but a bit wasteful that the only way to get any crisps currently is to order the sandwich and crisps combo from the kids menu!
You can just ask a member of staff for a packet of crisps.
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Old Jul 28, 2021, 5:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Genius1
You can just ask a member of staff for a packet of crisps.
Indeed by the time I got to Heathrow on the same night to catch the 2105 to Edinburgh only the First Class Lounge was open.

I asked for and was given two packets of Tyrells Crisps (didn't ask for two !!)

Also had "Pie and Mash" quite nice if a little spartan - more like a starter.

Copious Cognacs were a wonderful accompaniment.
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Old Jul 29, 2021, 12:41 pm
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I asked last week in GC south for a packet of crisps and was told they don't do them any longer. Not sure if this is a permanent enhancement or purely to stop folk rummaging around amongst during Covid. They are available in GF though but only seemed to be ready salted when I was there.
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Old Jul 29, 2021, 2:21 pm
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Originally Posted by beamac
I asked last week in GC south for a packet of crisps and was told they don't do them any longer. Not sure if this is a permanent enhancement or purely to stop folk rummaging around amongst during Covid. They are available in GF though but only seemed to be ready salted when I was there.
Yes, I was told the ONLY way to get crisps in GC was to order the kids Sandwich + Crisps combo from the menu. They were cheese flavour.
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Old Jul 30, 2021, 6:16 am
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Somebody posted on a Facebook group that the CCT terrace has been extended across to the CCR terrace today as T5 and the lounges are very busy. I did note how busy the CCT was on Sunday during the morning rush with a mixture of BA and AA pax awaiting departures. I wonder if the CCR might open in August even if it was from 7am until 2pm to handle that rush?

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Old Jul 30, 2021, 6:36 am
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Originally Posted by Pilot37
Somebody posted on a Facebook group that the CCT terrace has been extended across to the CCR terrace today as T5 and the lounges are very busy. I did note how busy the CCT was on Sunday during the morning rush with a mixture of BA and AA pax awaiting departures. I wonder if the CCR might open in August even if it was from 7am until 2pm to handle that rush?

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will be there tomorrow morning. Did people walk the outside path?
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Old Jul 30, 2021, 6:38 am
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Originally Posted by KSVVZ2015
will be there tomorrow morning. Did people walk the outside path?
That must be the only way to access it if the CCR entrance is still blocked off, I'm just reporting what somebody who is there now has posted, so any further insight from people visiting over the next few days would be very welcome.

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Old Jul 30, 2021, 7:55 am
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Originally Posted by green_tie
Does anyone think there’s any hope of the LHR arrivals lounge reopening soon? I assume not unless the number of passengers arriving on flights from the US increases? All being well we’ve got an overnight flight back from Barbados in early October, and I’d really like to shower and change before completing the journey home…
I'm hoping that now the UK is open ( from Aug 2nd) for US visitors the arrivals lounge will soon be re-opened.
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Old Jul 30, 2021, 12:02 pm
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Looks Like JFK reopening

We are pleased to inform you that our lounge at New York JFK will reopen this Sunday August 1st . We are reopening the Club space only at this stage and the First lounge and Concorde Room will remain closed.

'Your Menu' will be available throughout the lounge in exactly the same way it is in LHR meaning customers can order via the app and have their food and drinks brought straight to their seat.
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Old Jul 31, 2021, 12:35 am
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Originally Posted by Pilot37
That must be the only way to access it if the CCR entrance is still blocked off, I'm just reporting what somebody who is there now has posted, so any further insight from people visiting over the next few days would be very welcome.

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apparently that’s how it worked yesterday, so using the walkway between the two terraces.

back to normal today.
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Old Jul 31, 2021, 3:31 am
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CCT normal today as posted. Not overly crowded. Inside was rammed. Service was terribly slow and confused. 35 minutes to get a croissant and coffee. Longer for our other items. Our full order was never properly served. They clearly had no proper way to tell the severs where food was supposed to go on the terrace so people ended up with everyone else’s food. And given the delay most we’re happy to take it. Incredibly poor showing from BA which is becoming a common theme this year across just about every metric.
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Old Jul 31, 2021, 3:39 am
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So the tables in the CCT do have numbers (like in the GF) and did originally have stickers on them but these were removed fairly soon after it opened last year.

Usually the person bringing in the order will know which tables are which, or if not will ask the staff member serving in the cct or go and ask at the table they think it belongs to. I must admit I haven’t experienced any long waits over the last year even when busy, and I can’t remember a time when my order was wrong or incomplete - but I will add that I am usually on my own and my orders normally comprise one drink and one dish so easy to remember I guess.

I personally think the lounges at LHR have been a positive over the last year, but as someone who travelled a lot domestically I would also add the lack of anything at the domestic stations until very recently has been poor.
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Old Jul 31, 2021, 3:44 am
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Not sure if has been mentioned before but the usual MXP lounge is now closed to BA passengers. Not sure when it was effective from but both the check-in agent and the lady on the reception desk said, "BA have not renewed their contract"

Is this a general trend as upthread it is mentioned that quite a few European airports are saying the same regarding non-contract renewal by BA. Would have thought Milan would be considered quite a key business destination for BA too

It must be a fairly recent development because I used the MXP lounge only 3 weeks ago on July 6th with no issues.
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Old Jul 31, 2021, 9:23 am
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We did have 1 class Aug 5 flt BA/AA code share op by BA LAX -LHR flight but a short while back the first flight was chged to AA operated by AA, (still codeshare, but...) with the 2nd leg going on BA operated, J class only to ATH bec 1st wasn't offered. So, which LHR lounge will I be entitled to since now I am actually AA 1st leg? Should I show my BA (codeshare) ticket in the hopes of getting into 1 class Concorde? I realize I will prob have to chg terminals to get to T 5 (for 2nd leg). Terminal chg for AA arrival is planned to be T3 at the moment. God only knows if that will be true next week.
Thought I had this all figured out until the changes this flight has made. Not to mention the cancellation...part of life rt now.
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