Lounge Access Question LAX
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 79
Lounge Access Question LAX
Hello everyone,
My wife and I will be traveling PPT-LAX-PHL-TPA this week and are wondering about lounge access.
The entire route is booked on one ticket, Air Tahiti in business, then US airways in two cabin first.
I have been trying to figure out if we would have lounge access at LAX during our 5 hour layover. Being that our long haul international is not OneWorld, but is an AA/US code share, will we have lounge access at LAX?
I have been reading the definitions for Admirals Club access, and it seems that we don't quite fit in anywhere.
Thanks for the help, and sorry if this is the wrong forum!
My wife and I will be traveling PPT-LAX-PHL-TPA this week and are wondering about lounge access.
The entire route is booked on one ticket, Air Tahiti in business, then US airways in two cabin first.
I have been trying to figure out if we would have lounge access at LAX during our 5 hour layover. Being that our long haul international is not OneWorld, but is an AA/US code share, will we have lounge access at LAX?
I have been reading the definitions for Admirals Club access, and it seems that we don't quite fit in anywhere.
Thanks for the help, and sorry if this is the wrong forum!
#2
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No. Your international flight must be marketed and operated by oneworld airlines to be entitled to lounge access for your connecting domestic flights.
oneworld lounge access for First Class or Business Class customers
Indulge yourself before departure in a wider range of airport lounges when you fly First Class or Business Class with any oneworld member airline.
Customers flying First or Business Class have access to the equivalent class of lounge regardless of their frequent flyer status. First Class passengers may use a Business Class or frequent flyer lounge if a First Class lounge is not available.
First Class passengers may invite one guest to join them in the lounge. The guest must also be travelling on a flight operated and marketed by a oneworld airline.
Connecting between oneworld marketed and operated flights:
First and Business Class customers connecting on the same day of travel, or before 6am the following day, can access the lounge when travelling between an international long haul (a oneworld international long haul flight is defined as an international flight marketed and operated by any oneworld carrier with a scheduled flight time longer than 5 hours) and an international short haul or domestic flight (and vice-versa).
Lounge access will be determined on the international long haul ticketed flight (either First of Business Class) regardless of the ticketed class of travel on the international short haul or domestic flight.
You must be prepared to show your boarding pass or itinerary showing travel in First or Business class on the international long haul flight, in order to access the lounge before your international short haul or domestic flight.
The following exceptions apply:
First and Business Class customers who do not hold Emerald or Sapphire tier status are not eligible to access American Airlines or US Airways lounges when travelling on solely domestic flights within the U.S. or between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico [except Mexico City], the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Caribbean; customers travelling in First or Business class on U.S. transcontinental flights between JFK-LAX, JFK-SFO and MIA-LAX (and vice-versa) are eligible for lounge access.
Guests are not permitted at Qatar Airways Al Safwa and Al Mourjan lounges at Hamad International Airport in Doha or Qatar Airways Premium Lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 4.
TAM First Class Lounge in Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport is excluded, other than for customers travelling in First Class on TAM and oneworld member operated flights.
Indulge yourself before departure in a wider range of airport lounges when you fly First Class or Business Class with any oneworld member airline.
Customers flying First or Business Class have access to the equivalent class of lounge regardless of their frequent flyer status. First Class passengers may use a Business Class or frequent flyer lounge if a First Class lounge is not available.
First Class passengers may invite one guest to join them in the lounge. The guest must also be travelling on a flight operated and marketed by a oneworld airline.
Connecting between oneworld marketed and operated flights:
First and Business Class customers connecting on the same day of travel, or before 6am the following day, can access the lounge when travelling between an international long haul (a oneworld international long haul flight is defined as an international flight marketed and operated by any oneworld carrier with a scheduled flight time longer than 5 hours) and an international short haul or domestic flight (and vice-versa).
Lounge access will be determined on the international long haul ticketed flight (either First of Business Class) regardless of the ticketed class of travel on the international short haul or domestic flight.
You must be prepared to show your boarding pass or itinerary showing travel in First or Business class on the international long haul flight, in order to access the lounge before your international short haul or domestic flight.
The following exceptions apply:
First and Business Class customers who do not hold Emerald or Sapphire tier status are not eligible to access American Airlines or US Airways lounges when travelling on solely domestic flights within the U.S. or between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico [except Mexico City], the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Caribbean; customers travelling in First or Business class on U.S. transcontinental flights between JFK-LAX, JFK-SFO and MIA-LAX (and vice-versa) are eligible for lounge access.
Guests are not permitted at Qatar Airways Al Safwa and Al Mourjan lounges at Hamad International Airport in Doha or Qatar Airways Premium Lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 4.
TAM First Class Lounge in Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport is excluded, other than for customers travelling in First Class on TAM and oneworld member operated flights.
#3
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 10
Hi folks,
we will be on BA business class LHR-LAX with a same day connection on AA first class to OGG.
BA will arrive at TBIT, AA will go from T4. I know I will have to collect bags and recheck them. As our layover is a bit over 4hours...which lounge can we go to or which would you suggest to go in order to spend some time?
Thanks in adavance for your help.
Cheers,
Robinho
we will be on BA business class LHR-LAX with a same day connection on AA first class to OGG.
BA will arrive at TBIT, AA will go from T4. I know I will have to collect bags and recheck them. As our layover is a bit over 4hours...which lounge can we go to or which would you suggest to go in order to spend some time?
Thanks in adavance for your help.
Cheers,
Robinho
#4
formerly gemini573




Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: LAX, HKG, and BKK
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Hi folks,
we will be on BA business class LHR-LAX with a same day connection on AA first class to OGG.
BA will arrive at TBIT, AA will go from T4. I know I will have to collect bags and recheck them. As our layover is a bit over 4hours...which lounge can we go to or which would you suggest to go in order to spend some time?
Thanks in adavance for your help.
Cheers,
Robinho
we will be on BA business class LHR-LAX with a same day connection on AA first class to OGG.
BA will arrive at TBIT, AA will go from T4. I know I will have to collect bags and recheck them. As our layover is a bit over 4hours...which lounge can we go to or which would you suggest to go in order to spend some time?
Thanks in adavance for your help.
Cheers,
Robinho
#5
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 10
No way that we - after rechecking our bags - walk to TBIT and spend time there in any of the Oneworld Lounges?
#6
formerly gemini573




Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: LAX, HKG, and BKK
Programs: CX Emerald, WOH Globalist, Marriott Platinum, AA Lifetime Platinum, Virtuoso, Prive, STEPS, STARS
Posts: 2,233
I know that you're able to visit different terminals as long as you have a boarding pass. I'm not sure what their admittance policy is if you're flying out AA and wanting to use the oneworld lounge.



