steveben53

My wife has been in Florida for a week. Unfortunately she found out that her mother had suffered a heart attack in Vermont and she had to make an urgent flight from MCO to BOS. She was actually planning on flying up in a couple of weeks and already had a first class ticket on Delta so she simply changed the dates. So far no problem.

Yesterday, prior to taking the flight she went to the Delta Lounge in MCO only to be denied entry because she did not have status with Delta, despite holding a ticket in F.

My question is, is this common with Delta. Whenever I have flown with Emirates for example, if I hold a Business Class ticket I always have access to the lounge, despite being a humble lowest tier member in Emirates Skywards program

Mr. Tickets

Domestic first class does not get lounge access (unless you have access via some other means like certain credit cards or actually have paid for lounge access through a membership)

hi55us

It has absolutely nothing to do with her loyalty status, the fact of the matter is Domestic First Class (from like MCO-BOS) doesn't include lounge access. A lot of people pickup the Delta Reserve Credit Card or the American Express Platnium card (both of which carry $450+ annual fees) for lounge access. Unless you are flying long-haul Delta 1(Business Class) you don't get free lounge access on Delta.

DCAproducer

As others have stated, domestic first class tickets and non-DeltaOne international tickets do not get lounge access.
Delta has a tool on their website that lets you determine if you have access:
https://www.delta.com/skyclub/skyclu...Request.action
See the selections on the left.

steveben53

i never realised that - is it common for airlines flying domestic routes in the USA not to allow lounge access to First and Business Class passengers ?

xliioper

If they are on purely domestic F itin's, yes. AA and UA have the exact same policy. Only AS allows access to their lounges on paid F itin's (however, complimentary upgrades aren't included). DL does have a handful of domestic transcon routes with Delta One service that allows access. But any domestic routes outside of these does not include it.

steveben53

I always though the purchase of a business or first class ticket automatically entitled you to lounge access - oh well live and learn