Good you are feeling better. Yes Hertz doesn't meet you at the door but I always have a porter cart my luggage the short way to the van as we always have a massive amount of luggage. As far as using the Alaska Lounge with a FC American ticket the Seattle Alaska lounge didn't want to honor it for us. I had to go to great lengths and talk to a supervisor to get clearance. I was told that they no longer allowed it but after they looked deeper into their guidelines they allowed us to enter but still saying it was an exception. Lot different from last year when it was no questions asked.