SFO lounge: CX or AA?
Sep 1, 2010 | 7:53 am
#17
Join Date: Sep 2003
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I am flying DFW-SFO-SYD, first leg on AA, second on Qantas. Picked SFO over LAX as I can get a first class seat for a business ticket as they don't sell first class now.
Ticketed in Business, Qantas Platinum / OW Emerald.
On the Qantas web site they say to use the JAL lounge and it is open from 19:00 to 23:30.
My AA flight arrives at 17:30. I noticed that there is a BA flight that leaves at 18:55, which means the BA lounge will be opened. So should I stay in the AA lounge after getting off the domestic flight, or head over to the International Terminal and hang out in the BA lounge until I get chucked out then go to the JAL lounge?
Ticketed in Business, Qantas Platinum / OW Emerald.
On the Qantas web site they say to use the JAL lounge and it is open from 19:00 to 23:30.
My AA flight arrives at 17:30. I noticed that there is a BA flight that leaves at 18:55, which means the BA lounge will be opened. So should I stay in the AA lounge after getting off the domestic flight, or head over to the International Terminal and hang out in the BA lounge until I get chucked out then go to the JAL lounge?
Once the BA flight departs, the Lounge is likely to remain Open because of the Mid-Night CX flight to HKG
Sep 1, 2010 | 9:20 pm
#18
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: BNE Aust
Programs: SQ *G, QF S, Hilton Gold, SPG Gold, Accor Advantage Platinum
Posts: 685
Here is the answer from last Saturday (lucky it was Saturday and not Monday.)
Flew DFW-SFO on AA, SFO-SYD on QF.
Received all my boarding passes at check in. The flight DFW-SFO was a Qantas codeshare.
Got to the security gate at the international terminal around 6pm. Got told that my AA issued boarding pass is no good, I can't get through security without a Qantas issued boading pass, and they wouldn't let me through.
They blamed Qantas for the rule, that Qantas will only allow their own paper/stock to be used.
Waiting an hour, twenty minutes at the Qantas Check-in desk for them to be finally opened (roughly 7:20pm) and then got my AA issued boarding passes swapped over to Qantas ones.
Went through security to the BA lounge, which was open. On the boarding pass it states to use BA lounge. And they pulled the plane up to the gate attached to the lounge, so we could board direct from the lounge.
I noticed some CX customers in the lounge, as well as a CX uniformed attendant, so this is the lounge that they use as well.
So in future, if I travelled via SFO again, would try and get into AA lounge until around 7:30/7:45 then move over to the international terminal to get the QF boarding pass.
Flew DFW-SFO on AA, SFO-SYD on QF.
Received all my boarding passes at check in. The flight DFW-SFO was a Qantas codeshare.
Got to the security gate at the international terminal around 6pm. Got told that my AA issued boarding pass is no good, I can't get through security without a Qantas issued boading pass, and they wouldn't let me through.
They blamed Qantas for the rule, that Qantas will only allow their own paper/stock to be used.
Waiting an hour, twenty minutes at the Qantas Check-in desk for them to be finally opened (roughly 7:20pm) and then got my AA issued boarding passes swapped over to Qantas ones.
Went through security to the BA lounge, which was open. On the boarding pass it states to use BA lounge. And they pulled the plane up to the gate attached to the lounge, so we could board direct from the lounge.
I noticed some CX customers in the lounge, as well as a CX uniformed attendant, so this is the lounge that they use as well.
So in future, if I travelled via SFO again, would try and get into AA lounge until around 7:30/7:45 then move over to the international terminal to get the QF boarding pass.
Last edited by Gotta Requalify; Sep 1, 2010 at 9:30 pm