How do most SkyClub visitors get access?
Dec 29, 2018, 1:01 pm
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Just a small clarification - the Amex Platinum grants you Sky Club *access*, not Sky Club *membership*. It's a small distinction that is meaningless most of the time, but during times of capacity control, those Amex Platinum users are more likely to be denied access than folks with an actual membership.
Or will status matter? I don't see DL having a policy to deny SC access to DMs with Reserve or AmEx Plat cards now that DMs no longer automatically get SC memberships, and few DMs having such credit card(s) will nevertheless pick SC as a choice benefit just to avoid the chance of being denied entry due to hopefully rare extreme overcrowding.
Dec 29, 2018, 2:00 pm
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You guys, they just raised the price by $100 a year ago---that was nearly a 25% hike in the annual fee. At $550 a year, or $725 with additional cardholders, it's one of the more expensive cards you can have, setting aside Centurion which is just not an option for the vast majority of people. The idea of restricting Sky Club access in anyway is not going to work, it's just such an important benefit of the card. MAYBE if Amex really builds out a strong network of Centurion clubs this could work one day, but there would have to be many more clubs and they'd need to be not only in Delta heavy airports but in those particular terminals.
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Dec 29, 2018, 2:15 pm
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Just a small clarification - the Amex Platinum grants you Sky Club *access*, not Sky Club *membership*. It's a small distinction that is meaningless most of the time, but during times of capacity control, those Amex Platinum users are more likely to be denied access than folks with an actual membership.
Dec 29, 2018, 5:14 pm
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Just a small clarification - the Amex Platinum grants you Sky Club *access*, not Sky Club *membership*. It's a small distinction that is meaningless most of the time, but during times of capacity control, those Amex Platinum users are more likely to be denied access than folks with an actual membership.
Dec 29, 2018, 5:14 pm
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Dec 29, 2018, 8:04 pm
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Which is funny, since I'm always yearning for th
e good old days. When you got C+ at ticketing, when you could seat your whole family, when you could fly TPAC in first for under 100K, all that...
At least Amex and Reserve entry to SC isn't like PP.
Dec 30, 2018, 5:55 am
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Dec 30, 2018, 4:20 pm
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This is one of those FT statements that drive me nuts. Why does someone else’s benefit mean you get less? Maybe the real issue is that DL doesn’t have enough club space to satisfy all of its customers? How many lounges for AA, UA, and DL have been built and expanded since the massive industry consolidation? ATL is busier than ever, yet space hasn’t kept up with the increase in passengers and flights.
Dec 30, 2018, 9:18 pm
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I don't really see that happening. It would cut a large part of the value prop of the card for me, and would require Amex building Centurion Lounges in Delta dominated airports, which for the most part they aren't doing, my guess is by design. I was rather surprised they picked JFK T4 for one of the upcoming lounges since there is already a large SC there, but I guess they think there are enough non-DL flying users to make sense of it.
Based off my purely anecdotal evidence of when I'm checking in, most people seem to get in simply with a scan of a boarding pass, implying a SC membership or Reserve card.
Based off my purely anecdotal evidence of when I'm checking in, most people seem to get in simply with a scan of a boarding pass, implying a SC membership or Reserve card.
Jim.
Dec 31, 2018, 8:15 am
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This is one of those FT statements that drive me nuts. Why does someone else’s benefit mean you get less? Maybe the real issue is that DL doesn’t have enough club space to satisfy all of its customers? How many lounges for AA, UA, and DL have been built and expanded since the massive industry consolidation? ATL is busier than ever, yet space hasn’t kept up with the increase in passengers and flights.
Dec 31, 2018, 8:48 am
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Same thing happened to me in the ATL B Club. I pulled my Amex card out, and the agent said "No need, it is linked in your account"
Dec 31, 2018, 10:11 am
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In fact...how are they making the connection for primary cardmembers? I guess if they're scraping the account connection from the MR transfer function?
Dec 31, 2018, 10:16 am
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It must either be a matter of having used your AmEx card in the past to enter a SC or having it listed as a payment method in your DL FF account. Using the card to pay for the current ticket you're flying should also work, but simply having used the card in the past for some DL transaction shouldn't be enough since AFAIK AmEx doesn't allow merchants to retain such information.
Dec 31, 2018, 10:27 am
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It must either be a matter of having used your AmEx card in the past to enter a SC or having it listed as a payment method in your DL FF account. Using the card to pay for the current ticket you're flying should also work, but simply having used the card in the past for some DL transaction shouldn't be enough since AFAIK AmEx doesn't allow merchants to retain such information.
Delta and Amex are in bed together. I have not checked, but I'm guessing that in the T&C's of the Amex Plat card that cardholders have agreed to such information sharing. I'm actually glad to know about this in case--in case I don't have a card on me for some reason.