American Airlines operates three Admirals Club lounges at Los Angeles International Airport: this review will cover the Terminal 5 location.
American Airlines Admirals Club Los Angeles – Terminal 5 (LAX)
The lounge is located in Terminal 5 near the Farmer’s Market and duty-free shopping in the center of the terminal.
Hours + Access
It is open daily from 4:30 am to 11:30 pm. There are many ways to access the lounge, including:
- AAdvantage Executive Platinum, Platinum Pro and Platinum members traveling internationally
- oneworld Emerald and Sapphire members
- Qualifying first and business class passengers
- international
- LAX – JFK
- LAX – BOS
- LAX – MIA (only on Boeing 777-300 flights)
- Membership
- Citi / AAdvantage Executive World Elite Mastercard
- One-day pass holders ($79 or 7,900 miles)
- Military
Even with a membership, you must be traveling on a oneworld flight in order to enter.
Take the stairs or elevator up one level from departures and you’ll be checked in at the desk.
Seating
There’s a small seating area to the right of the check-in counter, but make a u-turn for most lounge seating. There’s a beautiful domed ceiling and my guess is that this is original to the airport. This was a former Delta Sky Club before American Airlines and US Airways merged and Delta moved from T5 to T2-3 and US Airways took T5 adjacent to AA’s T4 operations. Prior to Delta, this was a Western Airlines lounge.
It’s a large lounge and at 8:00 pm it was not at all crowded…
Food + Drink
In terms of food and drink, a buffet included sliced meats and cheeses, empanadas, street corn, soup (clam chowder and mushroom broth), salad, vegetable sticks, hummus, snack mix, whole fruit, and cookies.
There was also a guacamole bar (sponsored by Citi) next to the bar (bar menu here). That menu also includes a list of food items like lobster mac & cheese or sushi available for purchase.
Soft drinks (Coke Freestyle machine), tea, coffee, water, and juice were complimentary.
Restrooms + Showers
Restrooms and showers (three shower suites) were available.
Flagship Fights
My last three “Flagship” flights have departed or arrived in Terminal 5. That meant that if you wanted to visit the Flagship Lounge, you had quite a long walk to Terminal 4 via underground walkway…it seems very strange to me that AA would schedule any of its “flagship” flights to depart from T5.
CONCLUSION
The AA T5 Admirals Club at LAX was spacious and not crowded, with showers and a respectable selection of food and drink.
If you are departing from Terminal 5, this is a much more convenient lounge than in Terminal 4 (and security lines tend to move faster too).
You can compare this lounge to AA’s Terminal 4 lounge here.
i don’t think this lounge was ever a US Air lounge. i believe that it became an admirals club when delta vacated T5 in 2016/2017
Correct the only USAir lounge at LAX was the one in Terminal 1. The lounge in Terminal 5 was the Delta lounge before they moved to T2-3. Before that, history buffs, T5 was Western Airlines main hub and when it was remodeled in the early 1980s it was very posh as was Western’s premier terminal. The lounge location was Western’s Horizon Club lounge. Delta merged with Western in 1986 and finished the remodeling of T5 into “Delta’s Oasis at LAX” with the slogan “Take Five at LAX”
Very cool. Thanks Jaysob!
My memory could be failing me. Did US Airways move only after the merger? If so, then yes, you’re right.
So , salami and coca-cola are available for those who enjoy eating poorly . What a joke .
Likely better than dog or cat meat in China .
I mean you of all people would know.