Originally Posted by
shloveg2
Even though OZ is a part of Star Alliance, they want their members to buy their tickets at least when OZ flights are available on desired routes.
If they allow us to get into F lounge when we are flying on SA flights, there should be people who have never bought a single thicket from OZ and get the great benefit.
Possible but not likely. First, you only get access to the OZ F lounges. Not any other. So AFAIK this limits it to Korean airports. So you only get this benefit when flying from Korea. So in your example, one would not get F lounge access as there is no SA flight departing Korea.
So yes, it is possible that you become a Diamond Plus without ever flying OZ but it is unlikely that you can use this F lounge benefit often when not flying OZ.
I understand your point, but in reality the difference would be negligible.