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I had to kill a few hours in terminal 4 at LAX today, so I went to the lounge to chill out. As American Airlines do, they reminded me on the way in to keep an eye on the monitors as they don't make boarding announcements in the lounge.

Two problems with this:

1. The monitors are few and far between, so you have to keep walking from wherever you've managed to find a seat (not enough room there) so you can see what's going on.
2. Half the time they don't update the screens anyway! I kept checking my connection, the status never changed to "boarding", yet all of a sudden I had people paging me to get on the plane.

Which brings us to the best bit: It doesn't matter if they make a boarding call or not, just wait until they go looking for you and stroll down then.