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Old Nov 20, 2006 | 2:28 pm
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Priority Pass Program,Anyone have any experience using it?

I did a search for it and didn't come up with anything except mentions of its existence.
I was thinking about joining the Red Carpet Club with United, but the PP program might be better money spent , even if it's a little more expensive for me. (They do have cheaper memberships , but that wouldn't be what I would get)
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Old Nov 20, 2006 | 2:43 pm
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Try a search on PriorityPass (no space between the 2 words).
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Old Nov 20, 2006 | 6:02 pm
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It was an ok program. I don't think I'd sign up for it again though. Although they had lounges in many of the airports I went through. However more often then not the lounge was in a different concourse/terminal/pier then I was flying out of and could not access it due to how security was setup.
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Old Nov 20, 2006 | 6:09 pm
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I disagree...I have the unlimited membership thru the Chairman card and it is excellent...

If you are not loyal to one airline and are not elite and do not fly C/F, then this is a good program especially if you are willing to cough up the money for RCC membership....

true...sometime the lounge is in a different terminal, but .....who cares

Since most of my flights are intl...I have layover of 2hr+ -- which is more than enough time to walk to the next ternimal, enter the lounge and relax and then go back....no biggie....
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Old Nov 20, 2006 | 6:38 pm
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Originally Posted by anaggie
true...sometime the lounge is in a different terminal, but .....who cares

Since most of my flights are intl...I have layover of 2hr+ -- which is more than enough time to walk to the next ternimal, enter the lounge and relax and then go back....no biggie....
It can be a huge issue if you have to go through "Security" to get to the lounge in the other terminal, then go through "Security" again to get to your flight. (Think LHR. You couldn't risk it on a 2-hour layover.) Having said that, I used a lot of the 10 entries under the plan I chose during times I was stuck in O'Hare while waiting for delayed flights back home to MCI. It was not a big deal to go from the DL Crown Room to my flight on AA since they were both airside in the same section of the terminal.

I'm about to sign up for a 4th year. It's been well worth it to me. I'll be Platinum on AA next year and the company that acquired my employer allows Business Class travel on transatlantics (a wonderful change), so I'll be able to get lounge access more often when I fly internationally- but I still like having PriorityPass for domestic flights.

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Old Nov 20, 2006 | 7:00 pm
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PM me and I ll be happy to send anyone the full memebers only pdf listing of lounges in order to help make an informed choice about joining, the website is vague as to which lounges are actually used
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Old Nov 20, 2006 | 9:03 pm
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Best thing to do is to look out for the PP logo on lounges nearby the gates you usually use. (Though some lounges seem not to publicise their acceptance of PP.) See if it would work for the way you travel.

I had PP for 4 years. There always seemed to be one near enough for me without security being a problem - though most of my travel is in Europe and Asia. (Got on with it OK in the US.) Often they have multiple lounges in airports such as LHR. You can even do a "lounge crawl" if you're not charged per visit.

PP seems expensive if you sign up directly. Best to get it "bundled" with something. For 2 year I had a UK Amex Plat card without ever charging anything to it. I just had it because of the bundled PP and travel insurance. Someone from PP told me that getting the unlimited free visit version directly was relatively expensive because people signing up in such a way are bound to use it alot. When its free with another card, many cardmembers never use it at all, or perhaps just once or twice. So PP offer a good deal to their credit card partner. I think at the time I got the Amex plat which included PP, it was only GBP30 a year more than getting PP by itself.
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Old Nov 21, 2006 | 7:04 am
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I have the 10 visit card and that suits me fine for the amount of traveling I do. That is one huge advantage over joining a specific airline club. You can get the lower visit membership, if you don't travel as much as others A custom membership.

Also, they have updated the website now so you can see specific clubs without being a member, and they added a blackberry client so you can look up clubs while on the road. Very handy.
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Old Nov 21, 2006 | 9:49 am
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I have the 10 visit card and that suits me fine for the amount of traveling I do. That is one huge advantage over joining a specific airline club. You can get the lower visit membership, if you don't travel as much as others A custom membership.
That's what I like- some of my travel is predictable (nearly always have to connect in ORD) and some is in and out of places where I can't always count on a single Club (PC, Crown Room, whatever) having a lounge there. We've used PriorityPass in a lot of corners of Europe- always fun to see different lounges.

You should check the list, though- last I looked, some major hubs (CLT, SLC, CVG, for example), didn't have any places on the list. Depending on your travel patterns, that could be a problem. The good news is that when the updated Lounge list e-mails come around, they seem to be adding more than they're deleting.
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Old Nov 22, 2006 | 6:18 am
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I've been very happy with PP (supplied with UK Amex) but, as has been suggested many times before, take a look at your travel patterns and which airlines (and more importantly, which terminals) they fly from. Quite often, PP is available at a given airport but not in the terminal you fly out of, and moving between terminals is often not allowed.

Also, bear in mind that not all PP lounges are particularly good. Ok, if you're in the US then you're in US standard lounges (i.e. cash bars) but even around the world, things are variable.

Obviously, having access to a lounge, even with a cash bar and, if you're lucky, a couple of booze vouchers is preferable to no lounge access at all.
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