Review: Air France Lounge San Francisco Airport

You were lucky to be there during the narrow window of time when they actually allow in PP members

You were flying Korean Air, you can use any SkyTeam lounge.

The lounge has recently been refreshed, mostly in the furniture department (in the last year I think?). It's still hard to get laptop power sitting at most of the main seats but the seats along the windows with outlets are a new and great improvement.

If you're flying on the KLM or Air France flight, it gets FULL and difficult to find two seats together.

Why did you give them your PP cards, you were flying SkyTeam Business or First and had access already?

Also, your info is wrong, 11-1:30 is for both AF/KL departures, 7-10pm is closed for QF departure, who uses this lounge.

@Lucky having been in there during the run-up to the Air France flight, pretty sure the small room with different decor is for First Class passengers (it gets a rope and "Reserved" sign during those hours.

Also, looks so much nicer in your photos without the food picked over and every seat taken like it tends to be in the middle of the day 🙂

I like the drink and food offering of the lounge but I do find it really packed most of the time.
While I understand why the lounge is closed for Priority Pass between 7 pm and 10 pm because AF 85 leaves for CDG at 9:05 pm. But I never understood why the noon closure is only until 1:30 pm and not until 3:00 pm because AF 83 leaves at 3:10 pm to CDG.

Hope ford writes the hotel portions of the review.

I agree, it's one of the nicer Priority Pass accessible lounges. Convenient for JetBlue flyers as well.

Related, if you are on a premium BA ticket you can use the Cathay or JAL lounges, both of which are nicer than BA and also this one, obviously.

And on the BA A380 flight you don't have direct access to the plane anyway because SFO can't squeeze a A380 on that side of the terminal.

I recall once arriving really early for a BA flight and it was being used by Korean. They let me in anyway and I got to eat Korean food. Nice.

I swear that every air france lounge has that ikea VILSHULT picture.

The lounge is useless for Priority Pass members. I'm based in SFO, and every time I've tried to use the lounge I get turned away. Priority Pass has very little value.

Just visited this lounge flying B6 out of SFO and were admitted without question at 8PM on a Tuesday, FYI. Lounge was pretty dead.

Nice, they got Anchor and more than one variety too!

The lounge gets miserably crowded before the departure of the AF/KLM flights. Outside of these peak hours, it is a pleasant enough space to pass the team, and the food is good enough to make a light lunch if needed.

I have never been affected by the mid-day closures (maybe this is a M-F thing as I often fly on weekends?) for PriorityPass but have been turned away a few times by crowding.

Um, wouldn't you have had access to the AFR lounge anyway, given you were flying business on a Skyteam airline?

Bizarre you'd enter by virtue of Priority Pass, unless this was just another post to try to sell referrals through those credit card sign-up links.

The lounge is the old Delta lounge...which was the old Northwest (RIP) WorldClub, so no old smoking room as the terminal was built after the ridiculously written law.

To echo others, since you were flying ScaryTeam, you should already have access.

"You were flying Korean Air, you can use any SkyTeam lounge."

Yeah but PP referral...bonus...links...money...

"However, there were no showers in the lounge, best I could tell."

You didn't ask? Just curious, since "best I could tell" implies that you checked out the lounge on your own and didn't see any...it's possible there are showers, though.

Looks uninspiring.

Was there a few weeks ago catching the KLM flight at 2:30pm and I used the Priority Pass (and took my husband with me as a guest). Must have entered the lounge at 12-12:30. Had no problem entering the lounge on Priority Pass with a guest and it was packed. Not a bad lounge. Loved the nice microbrew beers they had in the fridge.

This is the designated lounge for QF's evening departure to SYD and is absolutely HATED by QF passengers. There are regular complaints that this one of the worst lounges QF use. Apparently a (very) limited number of very high-status pax are permitted to use the CX lounge instead (I believe its limited to 12 per flight) and the rest of the pax are refused entry to both the BA and CX lounges even though they are oneworld lounges (not sure the BA lounge is open in the evenings though).
Compared with LAX, the lounge situation in SFO is awful for QF pax.

I prefer the Air France lounge at Dulles, which is also a Priority Pass lounge. The champagne is great, as is the brie cheese. No showers there, either. The Turkish lounge has a nice isolated VIP room upstairs that they always let me in, as nobody seems to know about it. You basically have to walk through the kitchen and climb stairs to reach it. The champagne is better in the Air France lounge, but the food is better -- a full, real meal -- at the Turkish lounge.

@FNT

It's very hard to board a flight in SFO from the TK lounge at IAD.

The furniture's been updated, of course, but the rest of the "hard product" is pure Northwest World Club, right down to the tiled walls, marble floors, wood paneling, and bathrooms. Near identical designs live on in Delta's Sky Clubs in DTW and MSP concourse C.

I entered the lounge last night at 8 pm with a Priority Pass card. No problems whatsoever and I was welcomed warmly. Of course, Tuesdays are pretty slow.

It was just as well, as the crew on AC 754 to YYZ had decided to take the night off. I swear there were crew members who did not have a single interaction with a passenger. Paperwork was completed in the last row and a loud discussion ensued about the Toronto housing market. Thanks for the cup of water 3 hours into the 5 hour flight!

I have a PP and will be flying United I'm not sure if we can get in the lounge. Any one know if we can? We have 3 hours layover and I would appreciate any of you help. Thanks

I'll be flying on Singapore Airlines departing from gate G area, is the lounge accessible for priority pass card member?

Thanks!

@Laural, @Julia

I'm in the AF/KLM now, flying on a KAL ticket. They will NOT let you in on the SkyTeam E+ alone, as in thier words, "KAL uses the BA Lounge"
So I did have to use my PP.

I did have the same thoughts as you, so I purposely gave it a try without.
Good coffee and nice choice of drinks.