Vueling flight, can I enter the British Airways lounge?
Vueling is a low-cost airline owned by the IAG group; Iberia and British Airways are also in the same group. [...]
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Vueling is a low-cost airline owned by the IAG Group, in the same group are also Iberia and British Airways. Vueling also allows you to accumulate Avios points and, like the other carriers, use them to book award tickets.
The airline is fully integrated into the network of the two carriers, which means that you can buy a ticket on British Airways or Iberia's website to fly with Vueling and vice versa.
In case your flight is operated by Vueling in codeshare with British or Iberia, are you entitled to access British Airways or Iberia lounges?
For example, BA has two lounges in Italy. One in Milan Linate, lounge that we have already reviewed in recent months, and a second in Rome Fiumicino's Terminal 3, obviously in the international flight area since England has always been outside the Schengen area. But in this case the argument also applies to all lounges in London where they are present.
In which cases you can access
Access to the BA lounge is allowed To a British Airways Gold cardholder when flying with Vueling. If the flight has a BA flight number and was issued by British Airways.. This means that the fact that it is code-share is not enough, the purchase must also have been made from BA.com. The same rule applies to code-share flights with other partner carriers of the British carrier, for example airBaltic, Loganair or Aer Lingus,
When you can't access the lounge
In all other cases, however, access to BA lounges will not be allowed.. Under no circumstances will you have access if the card held is below Gold level. Normally with the Silver card you can access British Airways lounges, but in this case you will be bounced even if the ticket was bought with BA and/or the flight is code-shared.
Similarly, a Gold holder will not have access to British's lounges when flying Vueling (or other airlines), but the flight does not have a number beginning with BA or the ticket was not issued by the British flag carrier.
In conclusion
Many companies have partnerships and related carriers, for example Emirates owns the low-cost carrier FlyDubai, and it is not impossible to find ourselves flying on a plane of a different company than the one that sold us the ticket. In this case the rules of lounge access can be confusing, hopefully with this article we have clarified the various cases.
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