Another example of how FT is an invaluable tool. I had Lifetime Clipper Club with Pan Am, when Pan Am went bust I was living abroad and not in a place that had abundant DL flights (or any for that matter) for a few years. I was never informed in any way about any extension of my Lifetime status from either Delta or UA (you may recall that UA took over Pan Am's LHR hub and flights minus Miami). It was not until maybe 10 years later when reading FT that I even became aware that there was a possibility that still having Lifetime CRC or SkyClub existed. In short I have asked Delta several times to re-instate my Lifetime membership several times over the last 17 years, and each time I am basically told either that, "Records no longer exist" or that, "It has been too long". The funny thing is that while I was Platinum or then Diamond for about 20 years, it was not that important to me, because I had the access anyway.............oh well..............

Are we sure DL took over Pan Am memberships and kept them as LT?

According to many posts/members from the early 00's they did...............

Links to some of the threads:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delt...embership.html

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delt...embership.html

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delt...embership.html

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delt...embership.html

Thank you. I knew that it had been brought up, never knew if it was actually the case.

Addendum to my earlier posts. A couple of years ago when going through various boxes of my mother's things, I actually found not only my lifetime card, my "Worldcard" (that was the Pan Am Mastercard back then)as well as my Clipper Club tags as well as Lifetime Card.............I contacted Delta again and......no dice..........

On Monday I will fly through MSY with my wife and in-laws. My wife and I are flying AS to SFO, and my in-laws are flying AA MSY-ORD-CWA. I'm a lifetime SkyClubs member who also has an American Express Platinum. My mother in law has a Delta credit card.

Any life advice in terms of whether all four of us will be allowed in (the language is member + 2 guests), and what we'll have to pay for the extra guest? Not sure if they will charge more/less for customers not flying Delta.

You have a few issues. First you can only use 1 card and your Lifetime Card is the one you want to use since none of you are flying DL. You should be able to bring yourself and 2 guests. Be sure to have the physical card or the phone app to show the Lifetime membership. Your AMEX Plat is useless since it's a second card. If you wife had one, it would still be useless because no one is flying DL. Your mother-in-laws DL card is useless since she isn't flying DL. You could ask about paying for 1 person but the odds are that you'll get turned down.

I think they're going to be very rigid in terms of the rules, especially since it;s a new Club which is physically accessible to all passengers.

Since MSY has such a high percentage of O/D traffic the CSR's are very used to politely turning people away.

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I feel they should grant your request for sheer persistence :) Keep trying!

We will see. Both groups are flying on segments not offered on DL (I.e. MSY-ord in AA F and msy-sfo in AS y+.) so might get some leeway there. Will be interesting to see.

Be sure to print a physical printout of the new LT terms that state you're still allowed in when NOT flying DL. I've had some uncomfortable interactions at both SEA and SAN having to fight for admittance when I was flying AS and trying to get in with my LT app virtual card.

https://www.delta.com/us/en/delta-sky-club/access

Mine cancelled when they changed the name from Crown Room to Sky Club. The fine print said only to Crown Room

As others have said, I don't believe the LT CR card is valid

there was usually a poker game going on too - at least in Shreveport

"all" rules were broken for FCs as well as you could upgrade as many friends as they had seats. Got mine after working at the Dallas crash many years ago