Do you get BA lounge access flying BA codeshares on Vueling, Aer Lingus, Flybe or airBaltic?

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• TripRep says:

  2 Jan2 January 09:15

  I bet Rob has already done a similar article on Virgin using Delta and vice versa?

  • Rob says:

    2 Jan2 January 12:02

    Virgin is a lot simpler – Virgin / Delta effectively operate as one airline and I’m not sure there are many (any?) other examples of Virgin codeshares operating out of terminals where Virgin has a dedicated lounge.

• Alan says:

  2 Jan2 January 09:19

  OK I’ll give it a go!

  Yes
  In that case no
  Yes but you might have to argue your case
  No

  • Stu N says:

    2 Jan2 January 09:51

    Agreed – but on (2) you might be lucky at EDI if you’re on an evening flight to LHR for an early morning long haul.

    • Alan says:

      2 Jan2 January 10:28

      Agreed, the staff are very nice at that lounge and imagine they’d consider it 🙂

• Liz says:

  2 Jan2 January 09:30

  The only time we have ever been in the BA lounge in Edinburgh was before BA introduced CE on the domestic flights. We were booked long haul CW from LHR and were allowed in to the lounge with the economy domestic connection. When you are booking CW long haul now you automatically get booked in to CE for domestic leg anyway. We are lowly blues!

  • Stu N says:

    2 Jan2 January 09:46

    You used to get lounge access on full fare economy tickets – was called “Business UK” or something like that. Occasionally useful for last minute work trips. One anomaly was that connections to WT+ and above always booked into “Y” fare bucket so while not proper full fare tickets, you would still get into the lounge before your domestic sector but not the long haul. I suspect that since introduction of Club Europe this doesn’t work any more.

    As you say you’d normally get into lounge via CE now, but if you are on an economy ticket connecting to a CW or First on the same day (most likely a redemption with no CE availability for the domestic, or traveling on separate tickets), you should get lounge access anyway under OneWorld rules.

• Ralphy says:

  2 Jan2 January 09:39

  Booked a business class flight with Latam, LHR-MAD-SCL, all codeshares for BA to Madrid and Iberia to Santiago.

  When the ticket came through, the first leg with BA is economy (although the baggage allowance is 3 x 23kg). The second leg is Iberia Business Class, same baggage allowance.

  My question is, can my wife use the BA lounge for the first leg of the journey?

  Thanks in advance for all answers.

  • Stu N says:

    2 Jan2 January 09:48

    Yes, as long as the connection is same-day. OneWorld rules permit lounge access if you’re flying OneWorld economy and connecting onto a OneWorld long haul business flight.

    • Neily says:

      2 Jan2 January 14:54

      With variations. Eg no status passenger on Iberia Express economy booked on IB code connecting to IB J on one ticket , LGW BA lounge staff refused entry as the flight was operated by Iberia express and not part on one world.

• Alex Sm says:

  2 Jan2 January 10:07

  The rule of thumb is that with partner/codeshare airlines/airports lounge benefits are one notch down compared to ‘home’ airline or base. In my experience, it is more of less an industry standard globally.

  A couple of examples:

  – my boss and I were flying BA from London to Madrid and back. He had BA Gold, I had Bronze. In London I was allowed to go through Fast track security with him, but not in Madrid. The exact quote from a member of staff there: “Iberia – yes, Britis Airways – no”.

  – my partner and I were flying a complicated route from London to Singapore via Abu Dhabi and Mumbai on EY-ticketed flight with the last leg operated by 9W (Jet Airways). He had EY Gold and I had Silver. We were allowed into EY lounges at LHR and AUH while ar BOM only he was allowed (no guests).

  All these and Rob’s examples just confirm the rule of thumb. But you can still benefit from minor variations but in the end of the day you are still at mercy of a watchdog at the entrance to a specific lounge.

• Craig says:

  2 Jan2 January 10:19

  OT: Reward Seat release at T-355, by my reckoning 23rd Dec should be released but availability is only showing until the 22nd? Is this something to do with the time seats are released?

  • Alex Sm says:

    2 Jan2 January 18:45

    The word has it that they update the fares once a week on Tuesdays (US time) – which was yesterday, so perhaps this explains it?

• James67 says:

  2 Jan2 January 12:01

  OT

  If I book and pay for a rental car on the supplementary card of my wifes Platinum Amex, do I have full insurance cover across the UAE or just inside Europe?

  • Alan says:

    2 Jan2 January 12:06

    Amex car hire cover is worldwide and doesn’t require payment to be on the Plat card (although I still tend to use it myself in case of any issues I just feel it might be easier having the charge on the Amex card)

• Jtz says:

  2 Jan2 January 12:40

  OT finally got plat, but it doesn’t show my MR balance, anyone know why?
  Thanks

  • Anna says:

    2 Jan2 January 16:51

    Wait a couple of days, it can come and go.

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