[Leonard]

I think it depends on what lounge.

I was just in Vegas not too long ago and explained to the lady that I had an hour before my friend’s plane landed and she was kind enough to let me in 🙂

Remember to screenshot your boarding pass or something though if you don’t have a paper one, I realized once I got there it had disappeared off my phone and she had to look it up 😳

[Lorena]

It depends on the lounge!

Sometimes.

If you are flying international you are often filtered out through passport control/customs, so you can only access an official “arrival lounge.”

In the U.S. flying domestically, I usually can get into Priority Pass lounges because a “same day boarding pass” grants access.

Also of note, Capital One Lounges for example explicitly say you can’t visit on arrival, you need an outgoing boarding pass, but the scanner doesn’t flag anything in DEN at least.

A friend and I have both had no issue going upon landing.

I assume an employee would need to catch it/no one actually cares, or it’s simply a loophole they’ll eventually close.

[Mazie]

We used to use Priority Pass at the market our airport has on arrivals, and what we would do was have the PP scanner ready, and have a screenshot of our arrival info, but zoom in a bit, then just read the flight number out loud quickly.

Haven’t had issues.

With Capital One Lounge, we zoomed in far enough because they scan the boarding pass where it doesn’t show the flight info, and normally talk to the agent at the same time.