OW Lounge information
 

Am I missing something or is there no comprehensive lounge info on the OW website? If not, has anyone compiled any accurate info? I don't fly the OW carriers much (and in fact am not a member of any of their programs), but fly them from time to time as many are partners with Alaska. (I know my status doesn't get me anywhere, but on the partners, it is usually in a premium cabin.)

Try the OW airline sites
 

The BA website has a complete list of lounges that can be used by BA Exec Members. I imagine this would be the same for OW premium passengers.

http://www.britishairways.com/travel...urn&sec=atairp

Click on the 250 lounges worldwide link.

That was a good idea and it is 90%+ accurate. Some of the BA lounges are contract lounges, thus not available to OW passengers -- for example Paris CDG. Unfortunately that list doesn't indicate this condition, but you will find out at the relevant airport. As the situation with Paris illustrates, some high-profile places have less lounge access than you would expect.

There was a wonderful site called the Lounge Project that had enormous lists of lounges, facilities, admit policies, etc. - from all over the world. It went dead around 2 months ago; maybe it will return someday.

Thanks for the info. I have a feeling this gives me "90%" :) of the info I'll need. Most of my OW flying is on Lan. If anyone knows (Darren, you are nominated as "most likely to know"), if flying in LA F, and the OW partner lounge has an F and a regular lounge (such as BA F, or AA Flagship), does the LA F ticket get you in the better lounge? - Remember, no OW status.

Oneworld honours international F tickets unlike some other alliances, and you do get F lounge access on the partner lounges with an F ticket (capacity permitting -- used at some BA lounges to keep the non-BA flying riff raff out).

As #6 said, you should, yes. Most are pretty good about it but you will have some that will want to shoo you over to whatever lounge you're "supposed" to be using. But, yes, a F ticket should get you into whatever Oneworld lounge you want with one exception which is third party lounges. Here is an example. You're flying on airline A which has its own dedicated, non-third party lounge. Airline B also flies out but uses a third party contract lounge. You will not be able to use the airline B contract lounge with an F ticket on airline A. Hope that makes sense.

I had an odd lounge experience in Mexico City. IB gives lounge passes to the Frequencia Lounge (on 3rd floor), not the AA lounge (on 2nd floor). Same with LAN. I did go look around the AA lounge, but thought that the Frequencia lounge was much nicer. The AA lounge had a sign at the bar that said in effect that gratuities were not included with drink coupons.

Doesn't seem strange to me, just terribly unprofessional. Presumably, most of the IB pax in MEX will either be Mexican or Spanish, neither of which have a culture of tipping. Many or most of the AA pax will be from the US where tipping is very common. I am certainly not going to get into the merits of a tip based society since it tends to bring the passion out of people, but, imo, it is very inappropriate and unprofessional to have a sign like that whether you believe in tipping or not.