San Francisco United Airlines First Class Lounge access policy
Oct 29, 2008, 11:26 am
#17
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Can you please clarify, with a physical description, exactly where the lounge your were trying to access in SFO is located?
Oct 29, 2008, 11:49 am
#18
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You can pull it off at (occaisionly) some stations (lhr for me), but i have NEVER been able to at FRA RCC arrival. They are a tough crowd. Ok though because you can just go to the LH lounge, i just like the h2o kit they give you at the FRA arrival 
Oct 29, 2008, 12:00 pm
#19
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Same day *A international F ticket gets you into the IFL so long as you are in transit to a connecting *A flight.
Oct 29, 2008, 12:07 pm
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When I came back from LHR in F and was transiting to LAS, they gladly let me in. While I was there, a passenger just arrived on a LH flight in F and was going onward. No issue whatsoever.
Edited to add: This was actually at ORD. But the point of this is that it is allowed and should not matter what IFL it is in the system.
When I came back from LHR in F and was transiting to LAS, they gladly let me in. While I was there, a passenger just arrived on a LH flight in F and was going onward. No issue whatsoever.
Edited to add: This was actually at ORD. But the point of this is that it is allowed and should not matter what IFL it is in the system.
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Oct 29, 2008, 12:52 pm
#23
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With all of these byzantine rules I'm surprised that anybody can actually use these lounges. 
Oct 29, 2008, 1:58 pm
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Where is the SFO IFL? In the international terminal or terminal 3? If international terminal, how does a passenger arriving from overseas and connecting to, say, PHX gain access the IFL?
Oct 29, 2008, 2:05 pm
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Generally speaking, they don't, because TSA won't let them through.
So I fail to understand whether it was TSA that denied the OP, or the people at the UA IFL?
If he actually got through TSA and to the IFL, he should have probably been let in on the basis of an LH same-day F boarding pass, but isn't there a rule that lounges are departure lounges?
So I fail to understand whether it was TSA that denied the OP, or the people at the UA IFL?
If he actually got through TSA and to the IFL, he should have probably been let in on the basis of an LH same-day F boarding pass, but isn't there a rule that lounges are departure lounges?
Oct 29, 2008, 2:29 pm
#27
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My 2 cents
As far as i remember, you can't access SFO UA First Class Lounge on arrival unless your in transit for another international flight.
There is United Arrivals SuiteSM in United domestic terminal, but it's open until 12:30PM and i assume your flight had arrived later that day. Your only option was, in my opinion, regular RCC, but there is no shower.
There is United Arrivals SuiteSM in United domestic terminal, but it's open until 12:30PM and i assume your flight had arrived later that day. Your only option was, in my opinion, regular RCC, but there is no shower.
Oct 29, 2008, 2:37 pm
#28
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Generally speaking, they don't, because TSA won't let them through.
So I fail to understand whether it was TSA that denied the OP, or the people at the UA IFL?
If he actually got through TSA and to the IFL, he should have probably been let in on the basis of an LH same-day F boarding pass, but isn't there a rule that lounges are departure lounges?
So I fail to understand whether it was TSA that denied the OP, or the people at the UA IFL?
If he actually got through TSA and to the IFL, he should have probably been let in on the basis of an LH same-day F boarding pass, but isn't there a rule that lounges are departure lounges?
Oct 29, 2008, 2:41 pm
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Oct 29, 2008, 2:42 pm
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