The Oberoi Lounge at BOM

[day-heg]

Hi all!
I'm flying with EY to the UK and India later this year in Y.

As a Velocity Gold (maybe Platinum by then - 1100ish SCs YTD), do you think I'll be able to get access to the Oberoi Lounge that EY use at Mumbai Airport? Or is this just for Etihad Guest high level members and J/F pax?

I'ts not an EY run Lounge (I think it's Jet Airways). Is the high status of a partner airlone (ie DJ) on a non-codeshare flight too tenuous a link to a third party lounge?
Lounge agent distrection? Being India... maybe a few hundred Rs pushed in the right direction...?

Opinion & advice gratefully received.
Cheers,
D-H.

 

[BVT]

Hi all!
I'm flying with EY to the UK and India later this year in Y.

As a Velocity Gold (maybe Platinum by then - 1100ish SCs YTD), do you think I'll be able to get access to the Oberoi Lounge that EY use at Mumbai Airport? Or is this just for Etihad Guest high level members and J/F pax?

I'ts not an EY run Lounge (I think it's Jet Airways). Is the high status of a partner airlone (ie DJ) on a non-codeshare flight too tenuous a link to a third party lounge?
Lounge agent distrection? Being India... maybe a few hundred Rs pushed in the right direction...?

Opinion & advice gratefully received.
Cheers,
D-H.

Good luck!

I had trouble accessing this Lounge recently when travelling in J. Apparently, it is one of those Lounges where you need to have an invitation that ought to be handed over at check in; in my case no invitation was given.

The Lounge dragon was all set to deny me access and even claimed that an upgrade to J was not sufficient to grant access. Oh, the indignity; I was on a paid J ticket!

It was an OK Lounge, after all that. But BOM was not too bad outside of the Loounge. When I was there it was relatively quiet.

The dragon also tried to get me to use my last Priority Pass voucher!