I was on the AA overnight flight to DFW from ANC on the 4th. As AA doesn't have a lounge in ANC (with 3 flights daily on a seasonal basis), I went to the AS lounge. First time I've been to an AS lounge as they weren't part of oneworld during my last trip.
I had a J seat and oneworld emerald via QF.
Normally, for a domestic 2 class service, AA/AS doesn't allow access to the lounges (other then paid lounge membership), however with status via a non North American oneworld member, I had access.
The lounge agent scanned my boarding pass, but the status didn't come up in their system (even though it was printed on the boarding pass) and confirmed status in the QF app.
She saw that I was connecting onto Canada and looked through the oneworld lounge rules getting confused.
The agent then said that she was leaning towards letting me in, but wanted to check with her boss first. Couldn't find the boss (with 5 seconds of glancing around the corner), then let me in anyway.
I guess the AS staff are still trying to wrap their heads around the oneworld rules?