In the AS Forum, they were mentioning how AS BR members now have full access to the CO PC.

I called the PC Service Center, and they said this policy is reciprocal. CO PC Members now have access to any AS BR. The only requirement: a BP for an AS -or- CO flight!

I even called an AS BR directly, and they were aware of this new policy. This is excellent news, as it lets us use the club in places like LAX T3 and even SFO if the PC is too crowded! ^

Where is it in SFO? Airside or Landside?

Airside, on your way to CO.

http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/Air...des_SFO.asp#BR

Granted there is a WC, with poor hours, in PDX - but with a AS BR that opens early I can get a full night of drinking in + crawling through the airport and take it easy before that early 6am departure back to IAH!

My experience is that long before it was the official rules AS would let you enter with CO or AS boarding pass. Staff are incredibly polite, and if I recall correctly, had free internet terminals in most of the clubs.

Very pleasant experience, and glad to hear of the change.

The BR in Seattle is very nice.

J.Edward: What airline are you a pilot for????????????????

That's actually vcool. The PC is nice enough, but the fact that its landside makes it almost useless on highvolume days. How big is the BR? I wonder if they'll just wind up combining them a la the PC/WC at ORD

Reciprocal access == a revenue event for each airline's club.

Three weeks ago I tried to get into the SFO Boardroom.
No-go, Mr. Billiken.


This is great news!!!!!

CO PC Brethren - please be sure to sample the excellent key lime yogurt, carrot and celery sticks at SEA Boardroom. A culinary experience not to be missed!

Wife and I were admitted using PC Membership Card to AS BR in Vancouver on Aug 8 with an AS BP for YVR-ANC and again on Aug 16 with a CO BP for YVR-EWR. The BR staff on both occasions could not have been more hospitable (unlike the majority of sour-pusses in the EWR PCs).

Nice. Thanks for posting channa.

Request for update:

- is this arrangement still in place (despite the fact that some AS Boardrooms are still not on the CO PC webpage listing)?

- which is the best club at SFO if all three (DL, CO, AS) are accessible?

The interest is in an upcoming trip where I'd like to get into the AS clubs at SFO (on an AA coded, AS operated flight) and at YVR (departing on UA, ugh...). Anybody tried either of these?

Yes, it is still in place.

The pclub has more varied booze, and free wireless, I think the AS is 'cool' looking and has better snacks, as well as being airside.

FWIW, the AS BR at YVR wouldn't let me in this morning (traveling on UA with a CO PC membership card). I even persuaded the attendant to call her head office and look up her folder of admission rules, but all of these options insisted that PC cardholders were to be admitted only when departing on CO/AS coded flights. So no dice. Either it's different in Canada, or YVR doesn't see many PC members (there's only one daily IAH flight at the moment), or the rules are not as claimed above. I'll call the PC service center to clarify some time soon.

OTOH, the SFO BR let me in without checking anything but the PC card. There's definitely some club arbitrage to do at SFO: internet access at the PC outside security if you have time, then through security and use the BR for any extra time you may have at that point (and they have better snacks and cappuccino).

Edited 1/23/06: I notice nobody above claims that a non-AS or CO BP will work. The only people who told me this were the SFO PC staff. They were wrong.