sydtogla

I will be hopping off a CE flight into EDI and have the requisite credentials to use the lounge normally. I need to take a teams call and wonder if I can use the EDI lounge on arrival?

This is particular somewhat to EDI as you deplane into Hoi Polloi of the departures lounge anyway, so it would be a case of turning right and not having to pass security other than the dragons.

any advice?

KARFA

It’s not an arrival lounge. You can only use it if you have a flight departing EDI.

sydtogla

Thanks. Quirk of QF is that you can use the lounges on domestic routes without a departing flight (just same day travel).

SonTech

You can't use the lounge on arrival at Glasgow, you even walk right past the lounge on the way out so would be suprised if you could at Edinburgh.

corporate-wage-slave

EDI is a fairly busy airport, except late at night, so I think you would struggle to find a quiet spot for a Teams call. Maybe an unused gate, if you're lucky. Otherwise, and landside, maybe a stairwell area in the multi-storey car park?

sydtogla

I should note that I was talking about domestic QF lounges!

Will see if they can tell me the rules on the door. Never hurts to ask.

KARFA

i wouldn't bother asking. BA rules are very clear on this one, you are wasting your time. I am not sure what QF lounges have to do with anything.

Cw novice

Surely the far easier option here is to move the call to when you can use the Lounge at LHR with a proper business centre.

Domestics after all can be prone to creeping delays.

Airprox

What was the point of this thread then?

scottishpoet

I have never found the timing of domestic flights reliable enough to be able to plan important must take calls immediately after I get off one.

As has been mentioned you are not entitled access to the lounge at EDI. the agent at the door will scan your boarding pass and it will flash up road. then everyone is in an embarassing position.

I would recommend rethinking your plan

corporate-wage-slave

Definitely no access, just to pile on. There is just one arrival lounge in BA's entire network, and it's not in EDI. I suspect the staff get a bit fed up with people trying it on, so I don't agree with the last sentence.

crazy8534

Similarly, was trying to think of a quiet spot, about the quietest bit I usually see is the baggage reclaim hall but I imagine it gets busier as more people come off the plane.
Perhaps one of the shelters at the far end of the Tram platform?

Personally I would just be in a taxi trying to get to my destination asap or in my own car and could take a Teams call from there.
Unless it's the first flight of the day the chances of you being off at the expected time and able to hold a scheduled call after LHR-EDI must be close to zero!

corporate-wage-slave

I was also struggling, almost every other UK airport I know a quiet spot, but it occurred to me that EDI is monumentally busy for an airport all over. Other areas I discarded were - the stairwell from the tram side for Fast Track / bridge from multi-storey - but that's not a good look if you are not actually departing. The Ryanair check-in area at the other end of the building, furthest from the tram has has quiet areas down the side, but people always arrive early for FR check-in and they won't take bags in before 2 hours to departure - and you can rely on some noisy kids in there somewhere. Airside the landing between Aspire and Plaza lounges - too small and too busy. Right at the end of the new pier extension (long and tedious walk).

sigma421

Walk to the Moxy/Hampton Inn and sit in the lobby/bar?

CatchThePigeon

I've often wondered if I could pop in to the GLA lounge on arrival when I have a return flight later that day. I believe I could even if my return flight wasn't until the evening. Then go about my day in Glasgow before returning to lounge later.

Why, you may ask? Indeed.