Tag Archives: lounge access

The Priority Pass Select card is free with the American Express Platinum Card and allows you into even more lounges than the Platinum Card alone. The only difficulty with the card is that it only includes ONE person.  Guests cost an extra amount of money. This is why I paid …

Over four weeks ago, my husband got his status packet for his Silver Preferred Status.  I eagerly awaited my packet for Chairman’s Preferred, but didn’t get anything for a few days.  When I finally phoned up US Airways, they just confirmed that mine wasn’t lost in the mail. Why would …

I was just chatting with the US Airways Club bartender at DCA and she let me know that they’ve quietly rolled out complimentary liquor in the lounge, matching their policies to American’s clubs. I’ve wondered if American’s clubs were going to drop their level of service to meet US Airways, …

The LoungeBuddy team has been busy this week!  Not only are they giving away a trip to Hong Kong on Cathay, they have also released their long-awaited Android version. LoungeBuddy is a cool app where you can enter in all your lounge memberships, what elite status you have, and what …

I’ve been trying to use a lot of lounges I get with my Priority Pass Select membership with my American Express Platinum card.  In a nutshell, the card once provided American Airlines and US Airways lounge access to its card holders.  Now the card, with a hefty yearly fee of …

American Express Platinum Card holders lost access to the US Airways (and American) Clubs after March.  Bloggers pointed out that the Priority Pass Select Card that comes with the Am Ex Platinum can still get you into the clubs (just with no guests). Unfortunately, that won’t be the case. From …

I’ve heard of people getting refundable tickets so they can use their lounge access, but I’ve never heard of someone getting a refundable first-class ticket to get lounge access for an entire year. Lounges in the United States tend to require some sort of membership or credit card, but in …

An app is out there that will keep track of exactly what lounges you can get into at different airports. When you are the member of lots of airline programs, hold different memberships, and carry different credit cards, it becomes difficult to remember the rules for each card and what …

The Airspace Lounge at BWI is a great place to relax I rarely fly out of Baltimore-Washington Airport–it’s hard to get to, and because of potential travel snafus, you should really pad your time on the way there. But there aren’t any airline lounges at BWI.  So I’ve spent my …

The lovely ladies of Heels First sent old Perry Platypus on a Super Top Secret mission to check out the new American Express Centurion Lounge that just opened this week at the Dallas/Ft Worth International airport. It is located in the international terminal at DFW close to gate D14 by …