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Originally Posted by MarkR
Sorry but that is not correct. OneWorld actually promote the fact you have more lounges to chose "Indulge yourself before departure in a wider range of airport lounges when you fly First Class or Business Class with any oneworld member airline".
With One World you have always been able to access a OW business lounge flying business and any OW first lounge flying first regardless of status with very few exceptions. With BA it's important to note their Concorde facilities are not considered part of the One World Lounge network (neither are third party operated lounges like QF in BKK) so that's the Concorde rooms at LHR and JFK and the Concorde Bar in SIN that are off limits to non status F pax and status pax not flying BA. At Doha, it's almost the opposite, with F passengers getting access to the Al Safwa F lounge but not status passengers unless they are in F. Luckily there is a F lounge as well open to all.
The only other exception is AA, for domestic flights, flights to Canada, Mexico and Caribbean (some exclusions including some transcon routes etc).
It's a confusing situation thanks to a couple of rogue lounges, if you look at the departure point on the One World site it will tell you where you can go quite clearly, non third party lounges clearly say "access for any passenger travelling on ANY OneWorld airline".
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Again you are miss reading it. One World says you have access to a lounge when flying on ANY one world airline it does not say that you have access to ANY lounge. Subtle but key difference.
Open up BAs lounge access rules and you will see without status you MUST be flying BA or have status to get into a ba lounge. And not talking the concord lounge it is any BA lounge.
Finair the same. Must be flying Finair business or oneworld sapphire or emerald.
Iberia ditto with couple exceptions.
Further look at the link below and notice the subtle language difference when they explain status and class of travel access.
https://www.oneworld.com/ffp/lounge-access