CX F lounge access in transit

[clarmich]

My wife and I are flying through HK in June. We are flying PEK-HKG in F on a paid fare, connecting HKG-ADL in J on QF classic award. I'm SG, my wife a "shameful bronze" as she calls it. We have two reservations - one for us both PEk-HKG the otehr for us both HKG-ADL. CX flights all the way. So my question is, given we arrive in F and depart in J - albeit on different PNRs - will we be permitted F lounge access in HK or "only" J lounge access?

 

[djfuzz]

Someone can correct me but I had this very question not so long ago and I believe the answer was that F lounge access is available where pax arrive on F on CX or OW carriers and are connecting on a CX or OW flight. Have a similar thing coming up soon.

 

[clarmich]

Thanks djfuzz. I'm hopeful.

 

[JohnK]

I do not think you are entitled to F lounge access as your next flight is in business.

Perhaps I am wrong but look at a similar scenario and I think you know the answer already. You arrive in business class on one PNR and depart in economy on another PNR and you do not have any status. Do you get lounge access as an arriving business class customer?

 

[djfuzz]

I do not think you are entitled to F lounge access as your next flight is in business.

Perhaps I am wrong but look at a similar scenario and I think you know the answer already. You arrive in business class on one PNR and depart in economy on another PNR and you do not have any status. Do you get lounge access as an arriving business class customer?

CX deal with this differently at HKG from memory, given the fact that they do not have an F product on short-haul and certain long-haul flights, from what I've gathered from their lounge access page as well as the CX forum on FT. However, if anyone does have a definitive answer to this, happy to defer.

[Edit] Here's the relevant FT- granted of course, that's by no means as definitive as anything else. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/15321382-post11.html

 

[JohnK]

CX deal with this differently at HKG from memory, given the fact that they do not have an F product on short-haul and certain long-haul flights, from what I've gathered from their lounge access page as well as the CX forum on FT. However, if anyone does have a definitive answer to this, happy to defer.

Happy to be proven wrong if that is indeed how they deal with the situation.

One thing to consider though is these are 2 different PNR's the OP is travelling on and not an actual "transit" via HKG so second invitation may well be Business class lounge only.

Interested to see what happens.

 

[djfuzz]

One thing to consider though is these are 2 different PNR's the OP is travelling on and not an actual "transit" via HKG so second invitation may well be Business class lounge only.

That's a fair point - I'll be testing out the same PNR variation of that, but can't speak to the separate one.

 

[burrco]

Slightly different as my longhaul was in F, but last year I flew FRA-HKG in F connecting (in a separate booking) J to TPE. At checkin at FRA I got them to combine the bookings and an F Lounge invite for HKG was printed out. This was before I changed the booking from nothing status Marco Polo to Qantas OWE.