I like the oneworld business class lounge so much at LAX that I’d call it the airport’s second best lounge, right behind the other oneworld lounge…
A joint-effort by British Airways, Cathay Pacific, and Qantas, this lounge has every necessary ingredient for a great business class lounge, including:
- Quiet Seating
- Fast Wi-Fi
- Full-service + self-service bar
- Great Coffee (barista or machine made)
- Buffet
- Restrooms
- Showers
- Flight Rebooking Help
The buffet is excellent and includes a nice selection of hot and cold dishes including salads, soups, and hot dishes from the East and West. One visit I enjoyed lasagna with kale salad and squash soup.
On another, I enjoyed a stuffed pepper with rice, vegetable soup, and Beef bourguignon.
If you’re a regular reader, you know that one of my favorite things in life is a nice cappuccino. Here, the lounge does not disappoint. Anytime of day you can enjoy delicious cup of barista-made coffee at the bar.
But even better than the coffee is the taco cart! Yes, look for a taco cart to roll in on select evenings. Talk about authentic LA and offering my favorite comfort food.
CONCLUSION
So all-in-all, I really like this lounge. In fact, I can’t think of a single thing wrong with it. Well, maybe one thing. Cell phone reception is very poor in the lounge, at least back when I had T-Mobile.
Totally missed an opportunity to say “Taco bout authentic LA and offering my favorite comfort food” in the second to last paragraph. But yeah, that taco cart is one of my fave things about the lounge. Will often pop in while at the QF F lounge just for this option.
LOL. I’m tempted to edit my post, but I won’t. 😉
Thank you for the nice review with which I strongly agree. Really a nice space at TBIT.
Nice perspective, Matthew – the lounge has many strong points, as you note, especially its F&B (with barista/tended bar) and good WiFi. However, I have never seen it as empty as in your photos – it is very often something of a zoo in the evenings before the bank of QF flights to Australia and OW flights to Asia. I confess I’ve come to appreciate the T4 AA Flagship lounge for this reason – the chaises longues in the ‘quiet room’ near Flagship Dining are great for a preflight nap, there’s never a queue for the showers … and there’s champagne.
I missed the taco cart (aw shucks) when I visited the lounge around 11am prior to my JAL flight in July but was able to catch a World Cup game on one of the TVs. There were quite a few folks enjoying themselves at the bar.
Looks like a close-to perfect lounge, is it really that add for other places to combine all these things?
I’d see the spotty cellphone coverage as a plus, too 😉
Is it really that *hard*
I had poor reception with T Mobile at the Star Alliance First Class lounge at LAX.