AA Executive Platinum Status: Functional Uses For Domestic US?
Oct 21, 2019, 10:24 am
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AA Executive Platinum Status: Functional Uses For Domestic US?
I have been trying to understand how my emerald one world status is functionally helpful when flying AA domestically? I have an AA Club membership. I have been turned away at Quantas and BA clubs and the perks seem to come with being ExPlat. Any help or insight appreciated.
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Oct 21, 2019, 10:32 am
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I have been trying to understand how my emerald one world status is functionally helpful when flying AA domestically? I have an AA Club membership. I have been turned away at Quantas and BA clubs and the perks seem to come with being premierEX. Any help or insight appreciated.
As an AA EXP, you do get access to priority check-in, priority security, priority boarding, greater baggage allowances, and of course unlimited domestic upgrades when available.
It's unclear what you mean by how your "oneworld emerald status is functionally helpful" or "premierEX" ?
What are Executive Platinum / EP / EXP benefits? Are they worth it? (master thd)
Oct 21, 2019, 11:16 am
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I have been trying to understand how my emerald one world status is functionally helpful when flying AA domestically? I have an AA Club membership. I have been turned away at Quantas and BA clubs and the perks seem to come with being premierEX. Any help or insight appreciated.
QF & BA lounges at what airports?
https://www.oneworld.com/travel-benefits#lounge-access
AA Club membership is different again
And Qantas does not have
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Oct 21, 2019, 12:24 pm
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OP's signature indicates EXP, but again it's unclear what kind of Emerald benefits they are talking about. If I had to guess they just want to gripe about EXP's not getting lounge access on domestic flights, which is the only real Emerald benefit that an EXP flying domestically cannot take advantage of.
Oct 21, 2019, 12:24 pm
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Oct 21, 2019, 12:29 pm
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"premex" isn't a thing. you're "Executive Platinum" with AA. Here are your benefits:
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...=elitebenefits
It's up to you to decide if they're worth it. oneWorld lounge access on north american itineraries is not a benefit.
Oct 21, 2019, 12:30 pm
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The OP has an AC membership, which includes certain lounges with OW partners. Additionally, as an EXP flying Internationally the OP would get OW F lounge (or J lounge when no F lounge available) entry.
As others have noted his EXP status would carry over for items such as checked baggage allowance, priority boarding and check in. Possibly QF and BA lounges (not OW) not part of the AC Reciprocal AC lounge agreement is what the OP is referring to?
As others have noted his EXP status would carry over for items such as checked baggage allowance, priority boarding and check in. Possibly QF and BA lounges (not OW) not part of the AC Reciprocal AC lounge agreement is what the OP is referring to?
Oct 21, 2019, 12:56 pm
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I have been trying to understand how my emerald one world status is functionally helpful when flying AA domestically? I have an AA Club membership. I have been turned away at Quantas and BA clubs and the perks seem to come with being premierEX. Any help or insight appreciated.
Oct 21, 2019, 1:16 pm
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i think the main question is why? If all other OWE get this perk why don’t AA FF?
Oct 21, 2019, 1:33 pm
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The same is the case in Australia with the Qantas lounges. Both countries with many domestic lounges to support vs.most other OW carrier countries.
Oct 21, 2019, 1:35 pm
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Probably both to protect the revenue stream from Admirals Club memberships, and to avoid the sheer human volume that would suck up every cubic inch of Admirals Club space, especially at hub airports, if all EXPs, PPros, and Plats were allowed access on every itinerary within NA.
Oct 21, 2019, 1:39 pm
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And lounge access is a benefit for oneworld Emerald and Sapphire, so letting every EXP, PLT Pro, and PLT into clubs on every domestic itinerary would be complete overcrowded chaos. None of the legacy carriers have the lounge infrastructure for that. Not to mention they're certainly not going to give up all the revenue they receive from lounge memberships.
Oct 21, 2019, 2:22 pm
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Because AA, along with DL & UA, have long established paid lounge membership programs. Just one of those things that's different in the US (and Australia) vs. rest of world.
And lounge access is a benefit for oneworld Emerald and Sapphire, so letting every EXP, PLT Pro, and PLT into clubs on every domestic itinerary would be complete overcrowded chaos. None of the legacy carriers have the lounge infrastructure for that. Not to mention they're certainly not going to give up all the revenue they receive from lounge memberships.
And lounge access is a benefit for oneworld Emerald and Sapphire, so letting every EXP, PLT Pro, and PLT into clubs on every domestic itinerary would be complete overcrowded chaos. None of the legacy carriers have the lounge infrastructure for that. Not to mention they're certainly not going to give up all the revenue they receive from lounge memberships.