American’s New “Flagship Bridge” Dining Area At JFK

This will be a good addition at JFK. I was reading in the comments about Ted's experience flying Cathay Pacific in First. It sounds like that was an exceptional ground experience. You definitely do not receive that at LAX or ORD.

I wanted to know this too, and I found the information on the website as to the exclusions: https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/clubs/flagship-lounge.jsp So, in addition to those with an Admirals Club membership, the following seem to be excluded unless they have access through one of the other routes: * American Airlines AAdvantage Executive Platinum customers traveling solely on North American itineraries do not qualify for Flagship Lounge access. North America is defined as the United States (including Hawaii and Alaska), Canada, Mexico (except MEX), Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. * Business class who are not flying on qualifying international or transcontinental flights. Qualifying international flights are those between the U.S. and Europe, Asia, Central and South America, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico City (MEX) only. Qualifying transcontinental flights are defined as non-stop between New York Kennedy (JFK) and Los Angeles (LAX) or San Francisco (SFO), and 3-class aircraft between Los Angeles (LAX) and Miami (MIA). All other international destinations are excluded from this benefit. Departing flight must be the same-day (or before 6 a.m. the following day).

Who has access to admirals club that doesnt have access to flagship, just the folks with a membership?

When I visited 2 days ago prior to my 1am HKG flight, the entire bridge was deserted. At the time, obviously not even the bar was staffed. I had a nice chat with one of the long-time serving premium agents, and she acknowledged the overcrowding problem, as now Business class as well as Sapphires have Flagship access. She mentioned to me that there is something in the works to make the entire lounge complex in the main terminal a sole flagship lounge, thereby eliminating the admirals club from the main terminal, and incorporating the space of the current admirals club into the flagship lounge. This would provide ample increase of space for the current space needs of the flagship lounge. The only negative would be, that admirals club members would have to go through the tunnel to the club in the concourse.

Did you know that Cathey Pacific first passengers also get access to Flagship Dinning? I fly Cathey from JFK-HKG last month and was very impressed with the ground experience Cathey offers at JFK. Actually better then there ground experience in Hong Kong (except the HK lounge is nicer) I don't know if this is the normal or what but when I flew out of JFK last month, I took the afternoon flight. At first checkin counter, the supervisor greeted us and then an agent escorted us to the front of the TSA line (brought us to the front of the priority line, not that there was a long one that time of day). Then they escorted us to the lounge and AA gave us access to the flagship dinning. Afterwords at boarding time they escorted us to the gate. The one bad part is that the JFK T8 gates aren't meant to handle a 773 so the lines are insane but we still got first to board before Emerald Members. We were on a payed first ticket but did not use 5 star or anything from American. I figured you might find this interesting as CX doesn't usually offer much in ground services for First, especially outside of HKG.