Booking the Trip: A Southeast Asian Path to India
Review: American Airlines Admiral’s Club LAX
Review: American Airlines Flagship Lounge LAX
Review: American Airlines 787-9 Main Cabin Extra Los Angeles to Tokyo Narita
Review: Japan Airlines Sakura Business Class Lounge Tokyo Narita
Review: Japan Airlines 777-200ER Economy Class Tokyo Narita to Singapore
Review: Singapore Airlines SilverKris Business Class Lounge Terminal 3 Singapore
Review: Thai Airways Royal Silk Lounge Singapore
Review: Singapore Airlines SilverKris Business Class Lounge Terminal 2 Singapore
Review: Thai Airways A350-900 Royal Silk Business Class Singapore to Bangkok
Review: Thai Airways Royal Silk Lounge Concourse E Bangkok
Review: Eva Air Infinity Lounge Bangkok
Review: Thai Airways 747-400 Royal Silk Business Class Bangkok to Mumbai
Review: GVK Domestic Lounge Mumbai
Review: Jet Airways 737-800 Economy Class Mumbai to Pune
Review: GVK International Business Class Lounge East Wing Mumbai
Review: Thai Airways 747-400 Royal Silk Business Class Mumbai to Bangkok
Review: Thai Airways Royal Silk Lounge Concourse D Bangkok
Review: Thai Airways Royal Silk Lounge Concourse C gate C1 Bangkok
Review: Thai Airways Royal Silk Lounge Concourse C gate C2 Bangkok
Review: Singapore SilverKris Business Class Lounge Bangkok
Review: Thai Airways A350-900 Royal Silk Business Class Bangkok to Singapore
Review: Qantas Business Class Lounge Singapore
Review: Qantas A330-200 Economy Class Singapore to Sydney
Review: Qantas International Business Class Lounge Sydney
Review: American Airlines 787-9 Main Cabin Extra Sydney to Los Angeles
YOUTUBE: American Airlines: Los Angeles to Tokyo
YOUTUBE: Japan Airlines: Tokyo to Singapore
YOUTUBE: Thai Airways: Singapore to Bangkok
YOUTUBE: Thai Airways: Bangkok to Mumbai
YOUTUBE: Thai Airways: Mumbai to Bangkok
YOUTUBE: Thai Airways: Bangkok to Singapore
YOUTUBE: Qantas Airways: Singapore to Sydney
YOUTUBE: American Airlines: Sydney to Los Angeles
Welcome back to the second part of the LAX lounge reviews for this trip. After spending a bit of time in the AA Admiral’s club, I decided to head over to the real treat of AA’s lounges: their flagship lounge.
So the flagship lounge and the Admiral’s club have the same entrance from the terminal except after having boarding pass verified and going up one floor, admirals club people go right and Flagship lounge people go left. The signage is quite clear for both.
So when entering this is pretty much the first thing you see. Unless you are a certain passenger, there’s really only one way to go. Left. Turning right from here takes you to the Flagship first dining area and we’ll save that for another time. Turning left takes you to the main part of the lounge.
First you reach this small set of seats which face a TV.
Then to the right, you have some neat apron views. This aircraft, in particular, is my aircraft flying us to Tokyo.
Right adjacent to that window you have some table seating and you can see the same TV to the far right that I was showing before.
Facing the above, make a U-turn and you enter the main part of the lounge. To the left there are beverages, coffee, and other caffeine drinks.
It is in this area where most of the seating is. The seats were fairly comfortable and there are power ports at each and every seat which is great.
Further down there is a nice divider.
Beyond this, there are more seats and you can see the power plugs on the seats themselves in between.
Just to the right, there’s a nice departure board and magazine rack.
Now let’s get to the food. Below is a long central table where AA has one of their signature flagship lounge features called the Wine table. In short, its self serve wine but a large variety.
I’ll let the food pictures speak for themselves but I will say I was impressed at how wide a spread of food AA had in their flagship lounge. And I ate very small amounts of a lot of things and all were excellent.
So as you can see there was quite a variety of a lot of foods, but interestingly an Asian twist on a lot of the lunch items. I have a feeling that that’s catered to the fact that all of AA’s noon long hauls are to Asia and if that’s the case, well-done job by AA.
The last thing is the self-serve drinks stand and that’s right by the food. You simply cannot miss it.
So AA lounges are supposed to have bathrooms and showers but I did not see that in this flagship lounge so perhaps they are sharing with the Admirals club showers or I missed it but I thought I covered the lounge pretty well.
Overall, I was pretty impressed by this lounge. It wasn’t insanely big for an international lounge but it still served its function and had everything in quality. A great job by AA and a great job of adding these lounges to airports at a reasonable pace unlike United with their Polaris lounges (until recently). I would absolutely come back here given I had a OneWorld flight in premium cabin or status.