Citi Prestige : Admirals Club access benefit
Jan 9, 2015, 9:34 am
#76
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: NYC
Posts: 8,498
Yeah, it's certainly not a slam dunk to be able to get in on a codeshare. But if I have any US flights I'm definitely going to try to ticket them as AA and bring documentation to that effect.
Another technicality: it doesn't say whose boarding pass it has to be. So if I'm traveling solo on another airline leaving from the vicinity of an AA club, I might swing by an AA gate and find some AA passenger who wants to join me in the lounge in exchange for showing his/her board pass. Of course that's a VERY literal reading of the rules and probably not the intent (and the AAngels' computers may not grant me automatic access if I hand them my card and some random dude's board pass). So I'd be polite about it and prepared to accept defeat. But still. Fun with loopholes!
Another technicality: it doesn't say whose boarding pass it has to be. So if I'm traveling solo on another airline leaving from the vicinity of an AA club, I might swing by an AA gate and find some AA passenger who wants to join me in the lounge in exchange for showing his/her board pass. Of course that's a VERY literal reading of the rules and probably not the intent (and the AAngels' computers may not grant me automatic access if I hand them my card and some random dude's board pass). So I'd be polite about it and prepared to accept defeat. But still. Fun with loopholes!
Jan 9, 2015, 9:40 am
#77
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: NYC/LA
Programs: DL Plat, AA Plat Pro, Marriott Titanium, IHG Diamond Amb
Posts: 7,486
Jan 9, 2015, 10:17 am
#78
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: BTV
Programs: AA EXP, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 486
The problems with this is that I find AA often charge several hundred dollars more for a US code-share flight :/ Hopefully the prices will normalize as the merger proceeds.
Jan 11, 2015, 8:17 pm
#79
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: NYC
Posts: 8,498
Jan 11, 2015, 8:38 pm
#80
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: NYC/LA
Programs: DL Plat, AA Plat Pro, Marriott Titanium, IHG Diamond Amb
Posts: 7,486
"Benefit applies to Citi Prestige® primary cardmembers who are 18 years of age or older and are traveling on American, American Eagle Airlines, Inc. or an American Connection carrier flight number only."
Jan 12, 2015, 7:46 am
#81
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: NYC
Posts: 8,498
Ah, good catch. I missed that.
Jan 26, 2015, 11:40 pm
#82
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montebello, CA, USA
Posts: 2,365
I have had the card a couple of months and have entered clubs 13 times (DFW, BOS, PHL, DCA) and have never been asked for a boarding pass. I have been asked for ID once.
On this last trip, I did try to enter with my BP (which was AA) just to see if my access was linked to my AAdvantage number, but that did not work.
So my experience is showing the card is enough. The bigger issue is having the agents figure out where the dumb mag stripe is on the card.
On this last trip, I did try to enter with my BP (which was AA) just to see if my access was linked to my AAdvantage number, but that did not work.
So my experience is showing the card is enough. The bigger issue is having the agents figure out where the dumb mag stripe is on the card.
Jan 27, 2015, 11:58 am
#83
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 23
I have flown US and used the card to access Admirals clubs multiple times. They usually don't even ask to see a boarding pass, and since all the US Clubs have been rebranded as Admirals Clubs, they are ok with it if you show a US BP in my experience.
Jan 27, 2015, 9:01 pm
#84
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
Programs: Milege+, SkyMiles, AAdvantage, HHonors Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,685
Glad to hear this. I occasionally fly to PHL on US, as AA does not fly from my closest airport.
Feb 2, 2015, 6:22 am
#86
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: DFW,OVB (Russia)
Programs: AA HH Gold SPG Gold BA
Posts: 1,823
Feb 2, 2015, 7:46 am
#87
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: DFW
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold, Admirals Club, Global Entry
Posts: 1,141
These last few posts are really helpful to me since I'm thinking of switching out my Citi Exec card for the Prestige and I do have a couple of US itineraries coming up. The whole US vs. AA thing should be gone in the next year or so, but in the meantime all the little glitches are really annoying.
Feb 2, 2015, 8:04 am
#88
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: NYC/LA
Programs: DL Plat, AA Plat Pro, Marriott Titanium, IHG Diamond Amb
Posts: 7,486
That's interesting. I'd become used to handing over my boarding pass b/c that's what I always did with my Amex Plat... and I am positive that each time I've used the ACs, they've not only swiped my card, but also scanned my BP. I'll try just the card this week.
Feb 4, 2015, 10:40 am
#89
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: BTV
Programs: AA EXP, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 486
This is why I switched. Citi Prestige should get the job done for AC, and you get priority pass. Better lounge access for most.