lounges at JFK

[nat000]

Hi. Can someone please advise me if we can use the BA lounge at JFK if we have an outgoing international flight on American Airlines in business class. We both have Qantas Club membership, 1 silver. Or do we have to use the Admirals club ?
thankyou

 

[notzac]

To the best of my knowledge, you would need to use the Admirals Club - access to the BA Terraces lounge when on a non-BA flight would only be possible with oneworld status.

 

[serfty]

AA fly out of T8 - the BA lounge is in T7 so you would have no access to that anyway.

You would have access to one of the two AC's in terminal 8 - make sure they give you drink vouchers.

 

[nat000]

no worries, thanks for the drink voucher tip.

 

[docjames]

And the barstaff get a bit shirty when you dont tip them for serving the drink you've just "paid" for with the voucher.

 

[drron]

And the barstaff get a bit shirty when you dont tip them for serving the drink you've just "paid" for with the voucher.

Quite a quaint custom isnt it!Especially if it is early morning and you just want to pick up a couple of bottles of water that would cost you 20 cents each in Walmart :shock:

 

[Evan]

This is why the flagship lounges are nice serve your own drinks.

 

[nat000]

flagship lounge ! what do i need to do to get in there ?

 

[simongr]

Oneworld Emerald or a First Class Int'l or full fare ticket.

 

[nat000]

I guess we will just be sticking with our free drink vouchers in the admirals club then.

 

[serfty]

I guess we will just be sticking with our free drink vouchers in the admirals club then.

They only give out one or two at a time. Of course, once you have used up your initial allocation of drink vouchers, you can go back and request more.

 

[nat000]

we'll do that then. we have a 9pm flight out of jfk to rio. can anyone suggest what time we would need to leave manhattan (near times square) to get to the airport and do all the check-in, security and enough time for 2 drinks (or more) in the club.

 

[serfty]

Boarding will commence ~8:30pm.

There's not a lot to eat in the A/C's.

Assuming you are cabbing it, either have an early dinner in town before heading to the airport no (depart Manhattan later than 6:30) or have a bite at the airport after checking in - leave Manhattan no later than 5:30 in that case.

I personally would do this much earlier - I can happily hang out at an airport/AC for 2+ hours.

 

[nat000]

just checked the flight and it departs at 9.45pm. so i'll add 45mins to your suggested times. i think to be safe i might plan to get to the airport (by cab) by 7pm at the latest. then we don't have to stress if check-in and security takes a while. can have a few drinks (with voucher) and a shower before our overnight flight.
is there such a thing as peak traffic times in NYC or is it always peak? we are travelling on a thursday.

 

[dragonman]

just checked the flight and it departs at 9.45pm. so i'll add 45mins to your suggested times. i think to be safe i might plan to get to the airport (by cab) by 7pm at the latest. then we don't have to stress if check-in and security takes a while. can have a few drinks (with voucher) and a shower before our overnight flight.
is there such a thing as peak traffic times in NYC or is it always peak? we are travelling on a thursday.

Well its busy most of the time but less so on weekends. There is a subway option the JFK express - its good takes about 40mins to times square IIRC.

 

[nat000]

that's cool, i'll check that out. cheaper than a cab ! ta