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Air France is opening a new lounge at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in the Tom Bradley International Terminal on Friday.
The airline first announced plans for its new LAX lounge a year ago when it also unveiled its refurbished lounge at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), but it has been quiet on details since then.
TPG was at the preview party for the new Air France Lounge at LAX on Thursday night, however, ahead of its official opening to the public Friday. Here's what flyers can expect.
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The Air France Lounge at LAX will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Passengers flying international business class or first class on Air France, KLM, Delta Air Lines and other SkyTeam airlines will have access to the lounge, as will SkyTeam Elite Plus (equivalent to Delta Gold Medallion or higher) elite members with a same-day boarding pass for a flight on a SkyTeam airline.
Air France will operate three to four flights daily (up to 26 per week) from Los Angeles to its hub at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) this summer, and KLM will operate two daily nonstops from LAX to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS), so expect it to be busiest between 12 p.m. and 9 p.m., ahead of the main bank of departures.
Don't forget, Air France also flies between LAX and Faaa International Airport (PPT) in French Polynesia five days a week (Sunday-Wednesday and Friday), so passengers on those flights will also be able to access the lounge.
Unlike some other Air France lounges in the U.S., including those at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Washington's Dulles International Airport (IAD) and Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), the LAX outpost is not participating in Priority Pass, so hopefully it will avoid some of the overcrowding issues other lounges experience.
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The new Air France Lounge at LAX is in the Tom Bradley International Terminal's Midfield Satellite Concourse near gates 201-225.
To get there, travelers must pass through security and then take an underground passage (accessible via elevators and escalators) from the main part of the terminal to the midfield concourse, which can take about 10 minutes.
Once there, visitors can take an elevator to the lounge on the sixth floor, two levels up from the departure gates.
Agents are on hand to assist with scanning guests in, framed by a wall decal of the airline's logo, a flying seahorse, or hippocampe aile.
The new lounge is the airline's largest in North America: 11,883 square feet and with seating for up to 172 guests at a time.
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