May 30, 2016, 6:01 am
Last edit by: MatthewLAX
Original discussion: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/etihad-airways-etihad-guest/1624033-f-lounge-auh3-open-still-waiting-2016-a.html
Review with 100+ photos - link (blog)
Review with 100+ photos - link (blog)
F lounge in AUH opened 30MAY2016
Dec 24, 2016, 1:09 pm
#346
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Dec 24, 2016, 2:03 pm
#347
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True, but if you don't know that EAP is a specific group, you are quite likely just to google "Etihad airline partners" and might very easily land on Etihad Guest airline partners page, which is broader than the consortium mentioned above.
Dec 25, 2016, 5:28 am
#348
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True, but that will be made clear to you at the airport. How many AA ExPlat passengers are gonna end up on an EY flight in Y or J expecting use of the F lounge - my guess is not many......and for those few is the fact they can't use the F lounge really enough to drive them away from that EY flight? All seems a little crazy to me. EY is not the one who advertises F lounge for AA passengers, they advertise it for only their own small "mini alliance". One World is a different story. They allow F lounge use if your an EPLAT in ONE WORLD lounges only (Etihad is not one world)
Dec 27, 2016, 1:44 pm
#349
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True, but that will be made clear to you at the airport. How many AA ExPlat passengers are gonna end up on an EY flight in Y or J expecting use of the F lounge - my guess is not many......and for those few is the fact they can't use the F lounge really enough to drive them away from that EY flight? All seems a little crazy to me. EY is not the one who advertises F lounge for AA passengers, they advertise it for only their own small "mini alliance". One World is a different story. They allow F lounge use if your an EPLAT in ONE WORLD lounges only (Etihad is not one world)
Being OW Emerald I know enough about lounge access in the alliance - you don't need to explain it to me. My question was specific to AA-EY partnership.
Access to lounges for partner's elites is not unheard of in the industry. A very recent example: EK lounge access for AS elites.
Dec 28, 2016, 12:37 am
#350
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Dec 28, 2016, 1:13 am
#351
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Technically (as I found out the hard way), Virgin Australia isn't an "Etihad Airways partner airline", whereas the others mentioned are. This is why VA's platinum member are mentioned separately on the website as being eligible to access the lounge.
Dec 28, 2016, 4:38 am
#352
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Yes, sorry ........
. I pretty much stick with EK but take the EY JFK flight a few times a year cuz the apartments are a nice change. But EY seems to confuse everyone, not just you. There is no rhyme or reason to how EY operates it's so called alliance or the partner recognition people RIGHTLY expect but don't get. It makes no sense IMO anyway. Out of all the airlines that are part of EYs little group, EY is the sole carrier to even have a first class so offering F lounge to AB or AZ passengers does not make a lot of sense to me, especially since from what I've heard EYs partners all but ignore EY plats
. I pretty much stick with EK but take the EY JFK flight a few times a year cuz the apartments are a nice change. But EY seems to confuse everyone, not just you. There is no rhyme or reason to how EY operates it's so called alliance or the partner recognition people RIGHTLY expect but don't get. It makes no sense IMO anyway. Out of all the airlines that are part of EYs little group, EY is the sole carrier to even have a first class so offering F lounge to AB or AZ passengers does not make a lot of sense to me, especially since from what I've heard EYs partners all but ignore EY plats
Jan 1, 2017, 8:58 pm
#356
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Shave OR "haircut" - not too sure if I want to trust the guy with the haircut though. It's a 20-minute "haircut" (more like you select the number on the shaver [0, 1, 2 etc.] and then he'll shave your sides with that number you selected). If you want to trim your top using scissors, it'll be about $20 USD.
Jan 9, 2017, 9:18 pm
#357
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Boarding time starts very early for EY, about an hour from departure time. The lounge staff would inform you and make sure that you won't be late, so I'm afraid you'd have a very limited time to spend. Since many EY flights to India would leave from Terminal 1 and the F Lounge is located at Terminal 3, that'll add some additional walking time (but no worries, they are connected and only takes around 10 minutes).
Once your flight from LAX arrives, I suggest you to walk fast to the lounge to maximize your experience there.
Once your flight from LAX arrives, I suggest you to walk fast to the lounge to maximize your experience there.
So ironic to have the bottleneck at security be the bigger risk than to what they are trying to prevent.
Last edited by beachfan; Jan 10, 2017 at 7:38 am
Jan 10, 2017, 1:07 am
#358
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Turns out that neither LAX-AUH-MUM (with the TATL slightly late) nor the DEL-AUH-LAX (on time) gave me anything more than a chance for a brisk walk to my next gate to get just 5 minutes at the proximate lounge to my gate (neither being the F lounch). The return especially was chaotic (DEL-AUH-transfer anywhere). Stairs full of people, halls full of people,I had a car transfer on the tarmac, and would have missed my flight if I hadn't just ducked under a cordon and get behind someone at a screening station (must have been well more than an hour wait).
So ironic to have the bottleneck at security be the bigger risk than to what they are trying to prevent.
So ironic to have the bottleneck at security be the bigger risk than to what they are trying to prevent.