Hey all,
I will be travelling BNE-LAX-YUL on Dec 24th with a short 2h15min layover. As a Canadian expat, I've done this route several times before, but only recently have achieved Qantas SG status, so I thought I'd ask the true experts (the AFF community of course) for some tips!
QF 15 (Y class, have requested J upgrade with points) lands at LAX's Tom Bradley terminal, which of course has the Oneworld business lounge, but since my next flight is Air Canada 782 (Y class, it's a short flight!), I'll have to make my way to Terminal 6 pretty much immediately (Air Canada got shafted to Terminal 6 a while back)
I've done this same route earlier this year, but ran into two issues that I don't believe I had run into before:
1) Luggage collection and re-check
- I needed to leave the sterile area to collect my luggage and then immediately re-check it upon leaving TB. I would've sworn in the past that my luggage was previously checked through, but maybe that has changed with AC moving to T6?
2) T6 is hot garbage for lounges
- it's a pretty lame terminal (compared to the recently renovated TB) and doesn't have a Oneworld carrier lounge
- There's a AC lounge ("Maple Leaf Lounge", very patriotic) but I don't have access to that
- Las time some hurried google-fu led to me figuring out QF gold somehow gave me access to Air Alaska's lunge which was OK but not spectacular
TL,DR:
-QF gold flying Y on QF15 and AC782
-transiting ~2hours at LAX: landing at TB and departing T6
-do I really have to collect and recheck my luggage at TB? And leave sterile area?
-what are my lounge options at T6?
I will be travelling BNE-LAX-YUL on Dec 24th with a short 2h15min layover. As a Canadian expat, I've done this route several times before, but only recently have achieved Qantas SG status, so I thought I'd ask the true experts (the AFF community of course) for some tips!
QF 15 (Y class, have requested J upgrade with points) lands at LAX's Tom Bradley terminal, which of course has the Oneworld business lounge, but since my next flight is Air Canada 782 (Y class, it's a short flight!), I'll have to make my way to Terminal 6 pretty much immediately (Air Canada got shafted to Terminal 6 a while back)
I've done this same route earlier this year, but ran into two issues that I don't believe I had run into before:
1) Luggage collection and re-check
- I needed to leave the sterile area to collect my luggage and then immediately re-check it upon leaving TB. I would've sworn in the past that my luggage was previously checked through, but maybe that has changed with AC moving to T6?
2) T6 is hot garbage for lounges
- it's a pretty lame terminal (compared to the recently renovated TB) and doesn't have a Oneworld carrier lounge
- There's a AC lounge ("Maple Leaf Lounge", very patriotic) but I don't have access to that
- Las time some hurried google-fu led to me figuring out QF gold somehow gave me access to Air Alaska's lunge which was OK but not spectacular
TL,DR:
-QF gold flying Y on QF15 and AC782
-transiting ~2hours at LAX: landing at TB and departing T6
-do I really have to collect and recheck my luggage at TB? And leave sterile area?
-what are my lounge options at T6?
