Access to Etihad Business & Partner Lounges flying ‘cheapest’ business award flight

[jim001]

Hi all, I booked a ‘cheap’ Etihad guestmiles award/reward flight in business class, and I can’t find any info on whether I can access their business lounges (or partner airlines lounges). The flight cost me 180,000 miles for SYD-AUH-FCO (I think that’s the minimum), but lounge access isn’t listed as a benefit. The other seats available that I could have booked with 3x to 5x the miles seemed to show it as a benefit. Do all business class passengers have access to the Etihad lounges regardless of how they got their ticket, or am I out of luck with this ticket? Business(I) from what I can see.
Thx

Edit: apologies, no amount of searching on reddit or Google has given me the answer yet. The new benefits or reduced miles posts don’t cover this question. Thx

 

[Mattg]

Hi all, I booked a ‘cheap’ Etihad guestmiles award/reward flight in business class, and I can’t find any info on whether I can access their business lounges (or partner airlines lounges). The flight cost me 180,000 miles for SYD-AUH-FCO (I think that’s the minimum), but lounge access isn’t listed as a benefit. The other seats available that I could have booked with 3x to 5x the miles seemed to show it as a benefit. Do all business class passengers have access to the Etihad lounges regardless of how they got their ticket, or am I out of luck with this ticket? Business(I) from what I can see.
Thx

Edit: apologies, no amount of searching on reddit or Google has given me the answer yet. The new benefits or reduced miles posts don’t cover this question. Thx

I don't see any reason you wouldn't get lounge access. It's the Air New Zealand lounge in SYD and the Etihad business lounge at AUH.

 

[Thibault]

Etihad allows lounge access for all business fares - no matter revenue or awards.
They have not started (yet!) to strip off lounge access with specific fares.