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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 Oct 9, 2020, 8:40 am
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Originally Posted by ISTFlyer
Boston, San Fransisco, Austin, Nashville, Orlando, and Houston AA Admirals Club's have re-opened and are added to the WIKI.
yes! I did BOS the other day before my BA flight as the BA lounge was closed, and the Air France priority pass was closed despite it saying it has reopened in the website. The AA lounge was empty (maybe 6 people) and well done. It is so nice for it to be back open
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Old Oct 9, 2020, 7:49 pm
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Originally Posted by Tobias-UK
The CCT has been full a few times in recent weeks, but at other times there have been just a handful of people. Yesterday for a while there was just my wife and I. There is a belief amongst the staff that as the CCT is becoming busier there is a chance the CCR might open this side of Christmas, especially so if First travel begins to increase.
As an AA Concierge Key, it's my understanding we get access to Concorde Room. Is that correct? I am flying in business DFW-LHR-ZAG and have a seven hour connection. Are there any showers open these days? Worth hanging around the Concorde Room/Terrace or splitting time between it and the F lounge, which I know well. I might check out the third party Priority Pass lounge, too, but I have a feeling it might be closed.

With my luck, the BA dragons will deny me access to Concorde Room/Terrace because I am inbound on AA and outbound on BA on same ticket. It should work on my way back though. Or is service in both exactly the same these days?
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Old Oct 9, 2020, 8:32 pm
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Originally Posted by SkyTeam777
As an AA Concierge Key, it's my understanding we get access to Concorde Room. Is that correct? I am flying in business DFW-LHR-ZAG and have a seven hour connection. Are there any showers open these days? Worth hanging around the Concorde Room/Terrace or splitting time between it and the F lounge, which I know well. I might check out the third party Priority Pass lounge, too, but I have a feeling it might be closed.

With my luck, the BA dragons will deny me access to Concorde Room/Terrace because I am inbound on AA and outbound on BA on same ticket. It should work on my way back though. Or is service in both exactly the same these days?
The Concorde Room remains closed. Showers in the South Lounge Complex which includes the First Lounge and the Concorde Room Terrace are open. I believe the North lounge showers are open also although the North lounge closes in the afternoon. As AA is operating out of T5, as a CK you are supposed to be admitted to the Concorde Room Terrace at this time. I'm not sure why you would want to visit the Plaza Premium lounge if you have access to the BA lounges unless you just want to go on a walkabout.
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Old Oct 10, 2020, 2:40 am
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Generally, I think BA is doing a great job with the new lounge set up at LHR in the circumstances, but just want to flag that if you arrive at LHR desperate for caffeine, you may want to drop by Pret / a coffee shop before the lounge!

A glass of champagne gets delivered within about 60 seconds of ordering it, but this is now the third weekend in a row where I’ve ordered a cappuccino at the same time as my food, all the food has been delivered, I’ve eaten it, the empty plates have been cleared away, but the coffee is still yet to appear...
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Old Oct 10, 2020, 2:45 am
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Originally Posted by lost_in_translation
Generally, I think BA is doing a great job with the new lounge set up at LHR in the circumstances, but just want to flag that if you arrive at LHR desperate for caffeine, you may want to drop by Pret / a coffee shop before the lounge!

A glass of champagne gets delivered within about 60 seconds of ordering it, but this is now the third weekend in a row where I’ve ordered a cappuccino at the same time as my food, all the food has been delivered, I’ve eaten it, the empty plates have been cleared away, but the coffee is still yet to appear...
Same experience on the coffees Friday before last in the CCT. But the champagne is of course more important so not an issue
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Old Oct 10, 2020, 2:49 am
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Originally Posted by ENTP
Same experience on the coffees Friday before last in the CCT. But the champagne is of course more important so not an issue
I think about 10am is normally where my need for champagne surpasses my need for caffeine, so right now I’m still struggling
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Old Oct 10, 2020, 4:25 am
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Originally Posted by lost_in_translation
A glass of champagne gets delivered within about 60 seconds of ordering it, but this is now the third weekend in a row where I’ve ordered a cappuccino at the same time as my food, all the food has been delivered, I’ve eaten it, the empty plates have been cleared away, but the coffee is still yet to appear...
Oh well, I’ll just have to order the champagne then 😁
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Old Oct 10, 2020, 11:16 am
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Originally Posted by peter.r.erskine
If anyone is in Heathrow tomorrow, I'll be in Galleries South from about 3pm onwards! Hopefully I can get moved to GF at some point before my flight at 6pm!
Did you end up getting moved?
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Old Oct 10, 2020, 11:25 am
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Did you end up getting moved?
I ended up going to the Galleries First desk at around 4pm when I arrived at LHR and asking if it was okay for me come straight in there instead of having to go to upstairs and then move in an hour and they had no problem with it at all! Pleasantly surprised so would say it’s worth asking! Did notice GF get noticeably more busy around 5pm.
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I’ve updated the entry for BOS to indicate that there isn’t an airside transfer but there are landside transfers on foot and by bus both of which I have done several times before.

Please correct me if I’m wrong. I didn’t think Terminals B to C to E were connected airside yet).
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Old Oct 10, 2020, 10:25 pm
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Originally Posted by Simon Schus
I’ve updated the entry for BOS to indicate that there isn’t an airside transfer but there are landside transfers on foot and by bus both of which I have done several times before.

Please correct me if I’m wrong. I didn’t think Terminals B to C to E were connected airside yet).
Thanks for correcting me,
According to the official BOS website, only Terminals C and E are connected.

Connecting Flights at Boston Logan International Airport
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Old Oct 11, 2020, 12:42 am
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Originally Posted by peter.r.erskine
I ended up going to the Galleries First desk at around 4pm when I arrived at LHR and asking if it was okay for me come straight in there instead of having to go to upstairs and then move in an hour and they had no problem with it at all! Pleasantly surprised so would say it’s worth asking! Did notice GF get noticeably more busy around 5pm.
Thanks for the info, we are flying on Wednesday for a 6.20 flight, i will make the same request too, hopefully we will get lucky too.
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Old Oct 11, 2020, 3:48 am
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Originally Posted by SkyTeam777
I might check out the third party Priority Pass lounge, too, but I have a feeling it might be closed.
The PP lounge is club aspire which isn’t worth checking out at all

Premium Plaza available if you are an Amex Platinum cardholder and is Ok but the BA First and CCT lounges are better
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Old Oct 11, 2020, 9:53 am
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Anyone know if the lounge at JER stays open until the 20.50 last BA flight off the day?
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Originally Posted by TGLoyalty
The PP lounge is club aspire which isn’t worth checking out at all

Premium Plaza available if you are an Amex Platinum cardholder and is Ok but the BA First and CCT lounges are better
Do you have to pay for wine at Club Aspire? Just checked them out online!
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