Qantas Club / Business Lounges vs Admirals Lounges / Flagship Lounges

[TonyHancock]

It's 12 actual lounges

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInformation/airportAmenities/AdmiralsLocations.jsp

All the others are done via an arrangement (eg the AA club at SEA is actually an Alaska Airlines lounge).
Very annoyingly I was turned away at SEA last year only holding a QP membership, despite access to AC supposedly a QP benefit.

You need to read Mr Ewing's post and mine just above it.

There are four at DFW alone - not that I spent 8 hours lounge hopping - and they are all pretty ordinary.

 

[harvyk]

You need to read Mr Ewing's post and mine just above it.

There are four at DFW alone - not that I spent 8 hours lounge hopping - and they are all pretty ordinary.

I count 2 or more lounges in the one physical location as 1 lounge, yes there might be multiple physical lounge locations at 1 airport, but that doesn't help me if I'm at an airport which does not have a lounge available (or if I am only a QP member whom can't access AC partner lounges). Yes I might have multiple options at multi-lounge airports, but that is still a max of 12 locations where I can actually access an AC.

When you compare that to say QF whom have a QF owned and operated lounge in most major domestic airports that they operate from, it's a little slack IMHO.
(Yes I'm bitter that as a QP only member I won't have access to AC partner lounges despite AC access as a published benefit)

 

[TonyHancock]

I count 2 or more lounges in the one physical location as 1 lounge, yes there might be multiple physical lounge locations at 1 airport, but that doesn't help me if I'm at an airport which does not have a lounge available (or if I am only a QP member whom can't access AC partner lounges). Yes I might have multiple options at multi-lounge airports, but that is still a max of 12 locations where I can actually access an AC.

When you compare that to say QF whom have a QF owned and operated lounge in most major domestic airports that they operate from, it's a little slack IMHO.
(Yes I'm bitter that as a QP only member I won't have access to AC partner lounges despite AC access as a published benefit)

AA has Admirals Clubs at:

ATL, AUS, BOS, CLT, ORD, DFW, DEN, GSO, BDL, LAX, MIA, BNA, JFK, LGA, EWR, SNA, PHL, PHX, PIT, RDU, SAN, SFO, STL, TPA and DCA that I know of, plus it has shared lounges with AS which I have not listed.

 

[TonyHancock]

The page the OP and your good self linked to lists 12 "Featured clubs", you need to scroll down and select the location you are looking for from the drop down box then hit go.



I am in no way disagreeing with the quality of the lounges, and to a certain extent agree that they are not as widespread as they might be, I am just trying to correct some misinformation.

 

[Princess Fiona]

The page the OP and your good self linked to lists 12 "Featured clubs", you need to scroll down and select the location you are looking for from the drop down box then hit go.

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I am in no way disagreeing with the quality of the lounges, and to a certain extent agree that they are not as widespread as they might be, I am just trying to correct some misinformation.

I counted 26 in the US on AA.com. My arithmetic could be wonky though.
All the US Airways clubs are now AA so the number is definitely bigger than 11 or 12.

 

[harvyk]

The page the OP and your good self linked to lists 12 "Featured clubs", you need to scroll down and select the location you are looking for from the drop down box then hit go.

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I am in no way disagreeing with the quality of the lounges, and to a certain extent agree that they are not as widespread as they might be, I am just trying to correct some misinformation.

Yeah just spotted that drop down, at first it looked like it was the associated lounges (eg the QP's here in AU and the AS lounges in the US) but you're right, there is a few AA lounges in there.

 

[dacom]

AT SEA AA uses the two AS lounges. The list in the link consists of AA "Featured" Lounges, you need to use the drop down box to select the airport. As Mr Ewing says there are close to 50 AA lounges including partners like AS.

SLC is not really surprising as AA has less than 5% market share there. It is predominantly a DL hub, over 70% market share.

thanks for the update, i did not know I can access AS lounges. I would have missed out. thanks

 

[SpudOz]

It's 12 actual lounges

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInformation/airportAmenities/AdmiralsLocations.jsp

All the others are done via an arrangement (eg the AA club at SEA is actually an Alaska Airlines lounge).
Very annoyingly I was turned away at SEA last year only holding a QP membership, despite access to AC supposedly a QP benefit.

Husband & I were both turned away from the AS lounge at SEA a couple of years ago. Naively we thought we could get access as we were flying AA and the other half was platinum at the time.

 

[dacom]

The same here, got turned away from the AS lounge in SEA even with a first class AA flight tickets, tried the BA lounge as a one world emerald still got turned away. This was one way to killing time. Ended up in a nice bar having an Alaskan beer.