BA or Equivalent Lounges

[silverfoxcc]

Flying LHR-GVA in a few days. Have a 4 hr stop over between flights. The flight i am next on is a budget airline

Could i still relax in the lounge AFTER the BA flight or do my perks stop as soon as i land in GVA?

[BerksBoy]

try your charms at the BA lounge.... but imagine your chance are slim as technically you are on the ticket of the lowco

[Boz123]

Nope. The BA lounge at GVA are particularly hard-nosed.

[QuartzDad]

Both the Horizon and Skyview lounges appear to accept pay-per-visit visitors.

https://www.executivelounges.com/airport-lounges/g...
https://www.loungebuddy.co.uk/GVA/dnata-skyview-lo...

If you have Priority Pass there are three lounge options.

[silverfoxcc]

Thanks looks like slumming it for a couple of hours then

[DavieBNL]

Tried it once at CDG in similar circumstance and was very politely told where to go!

[Turfy]

Hi OP, small thread hijack but still slightly on the topic

I was looking into lounges only yesterday - it's a minefield out there.

Can someone in the know point me towards the best lounge access method, please? Is it a private membership somewhere, a credit card which allows access or other? Something like this...?

https://www.prioritypass.com/en/members-benefits

I fly 3-4 time a month maybe once is long-haul.

Thanks all

Edited by Turfy on Saturday 18th May 15:01

[anonymous-user]

Turfy said:

I fly 3-4 time a month maybe once is long-haul.

Can you consolidate more of your flying onto one main carrier? With that frequency of flying, you should easily get to a threshold equivalent to BA silver with either BA or one of its competitors, which gives lounge access regardless of the class of travel.

[mikef]

Turfy said:

Hi OP, small thread hijack but still slightly on the topic

I was looking into lounges only yesterday - it's a minefield out there.

Can someone in the know point me towards the best lounge access method, please? Is it a private membership somewhere, a credit card which allows access or other? Something like this...?

https://www.prioritypass.com/en/members-benefits

I fly 3-4 time a month maybe once is long-haul.

Thanks all

I’d definitely go for priority pass if flying more than once a month, especially if some of that is in the back of the plane

The standard of lounges it gets you in to can vary (PP are basically brokering excess lounge capacity) but on the whole it admits you somewhere decent to wait for a flight with a few drinks and Wi-Fi

[schmalex]

brickwall said:

EddieSteadyGo said:

Turfy said:

I fly 3-4 time a month maybe once is long-haul.

Can you consolidate more of your flying onto one main carrier? With that frequency of flying, you should easily get to a threshold equivalent to BA silver with either BA or one of its competitors, which gives lounge access regardless of the class of travel.

Indeed, even assuming it's all economy, you'd be racking up well over 50 Tier Points a month on BA, which would see you into Silver status.

As said, the best way is to keep the spend with an alliance to move through the status tiers. BA Silver is pretty simple to achieve at 4 flights and 600 tier points (you can accelerate attaining these if you fly someone like Qatar as each sector counts as a full long haul for the points).

If you are flying Star Alliance, Turkish have pretty much the easiest way to move through the status tiers.

Once you have decent status with an airline in an alliance, request a status match by another airline in a different alliance

I have Emirates Platinum, BA Gold and Turkish Gold. I’m about to stop flying with Emirates as I receive no fringe benefits (such as lounge access / priority security when travelling in economy) by remaining loyal to them.

[anonymous-user]

schmalex said:

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I have Emirates Platinum, BA Gold and Turkish Gold.

That's a lot of flying!

[schmalex]

Sadly, yes!!

In my previous role, I covered “emerging markets” (Asia, Africa, ME, LatAm), so was constantly back and forth.

Having changed employer at the start of the year, I now just cover Asia, buy generally end up going out there once or twice a month.

I have missed so many weekends with my family over the past few years that I now try to leave late Sunday evening and be back at home for 11pm Friday. It makes a run to somewhere like Sydney pretty short as you only get 2 1/2 days with the clients before leaving again on the Thursday evening / early Friday morning.

It doesn’t matter how close you are to front of the plane, it can still be bloody knackering!

Edited by schmalex on Saturday 18th May 18:31

[anonymous-user]

schmalex said:

It doesn’t matter how close you are to front of the plane, it can still be bloody knackering!

+1

I'm just about to tick into gold with BA, but flying is still (mostly) a chore.

[4Q]

anonymous said:

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My Natwest premier account gets me a dragon pass which I use a couple of times a week at various airports. As its a joint account both my wife and I get access too and they never seem to charge when I bring a guest in even though it says I will be. Usually a choice of lounges at major airports too.

[mikef]

anonymous said:

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That’s how I get my Priority Pass card now. Previously had it as a company perk then paid the annual subscription for a couple of years, it’s now part of a few premium account packages like Amex Platinum

[//j17]

silverfoxcc said:

Flying LHR-GVA in a few days. Have a 4 hr stop over between flights. The flight i am next on is a budget airline

Could i still relax in the lounge AFTER the BA flight or do my perks stop as soon as i land in GVA?

Perks stop when you land I'm afraid.

That said you're not missing much being unable to access the BA lounge at GVA - in the arse end of nowhere, rather pants food, and are completely random about which flights they announce and which they don't.

Four hours isn't long anyway so I'd say just get a coffee and a snack then head upstairs, following the lunch signs - lots of public seating up there, unlike downstairs but nobody seems to know about them.

[Puggit]

As an aside, when flying BA in to Glasgow or Edinburgh on a day trip, if you land really early and don't need to head in to town yet, your return nicely gets you in to the lounge

This works because arrivals are just dumped in to the main terminals, mixing with departing passengers.