Poor LHR T3 lounge experience
Nov 19, 2010, 10:36 am
#16
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Crikey. On my reading of your post, none of you should have got in at all. You were flying with TG and had no BA status.
Airport Lounges are not a benevolent home for waifs and strays (or people who find the airline lounge to which they have access is not to their taste).
If I rocked up at the QF Lounge in Sydney flying Emirates and waving my BA Gold Card I'd expect, quite rightly, to be told that I could not come in.
Airport Lounges are not a benevolent home for waifs and strays (or people who find the airline lounge to which they have access is not to their taste).
If I rocked up at the QF Lounge in Sydney flying Emirates and waving my BA Gold Card I'd expect, quite rightly, to be told that I could not come in.
If an airline does lots of favours it dilutes the offering for other regular pax.
Also as a Star Alliance F pax, you would have had other options to choose from in T3.
Nov 19, 2010, 12:52 pm
#17
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To be fair anytime access on WP only applies to QF or QF-jointly op lounges and only for access to the J section (according to T&Cs) though I've found the lounge receptionists more than happy to grant access above these privileges when flying non-OW metal ex SIN at off-peak times.
Nov 19, 2010, 5:15 pm
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Nov 20, 2010, 12:53 am
#19
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Unless you had assumed (as I did incorrectly) that you were allowed access.
Last edited by astonmartinv8; Nov 20, 2010 at 12:58 am
Nov 20, 2010, 12:55 am
#20
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I agree with your first comment. In this case though, as my wife and elderly father had been granted access, I think there may have been special circumstances.
Next time I'll research matters a little better.
Nov 20, 2010, 12:57 am
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Quite and thanks, it isn't that clear (perhaps unless you are well read on lounge rules / ownership in every airport, which I admit I am not) that there is a difference between the BA lounge and "shared" OW lounges.
Nov 22, 2010, 6:22 am
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