The Qantas Club - Brisbane

The Qantas Club is located down the corridor from gate 22. There was no queue as I entered the reception area. A friendly agent checked my boarding pass and welcomed me inside. The styling of the lounge is the same as Melbourne and Sydney, with wood panelling and the same furniture.

The lounge is spacious, and like the other lounges, split into smaller sections, although overall, it is about half the size of the Sydney lounge.

The main area houses the bar, the food area and a work bench. There is a proper work centre in the middle of the lounge, with several meeting rooms around the outside. There are seating areas around the outside of the lounge.

On offer this morning was the same as the Sydney lounge. Juices, soft drinks, toast, creal fruit etc.

On with the photos:


The bar area


Work bench, coffee and magazine racks


The food area

The lounge was reasonably busy, so I didn’t manage to get any other photos, as that would have meant pointing a camera directly at people.

A Sydney flight got called, and the lounge quietened down slightly.

I set up my iPad and watched a bit of ER whilst texting my friends to see where they were. We discussed trying to get them into the lounge. I had an allowance for one guest, and we thought about asking for another, but didn’t feel it was worth the hassle in the end.
They arrived at the airport at about 10am, checked in and then headed to the coffee bar at the food hall in the middle of the departure area. After a quick catch up we headed down to the gate area at about 10.30 (the flight was due at 10.50).

All QantasLink flights leave from a separate gate area which is downstairs from the ‘jet’ gates.


QantasLink Gate Area

We sat down and waited for boarding. Several Dash-8 aircraft could be seen outside. I wasn’t sure which one was going to be ours. I was quite excited about this flight. The Dash 8 – Q400 wouldn’t be the smallest commercial aircraft that I’d flown on, at 74 seats, but it’s always interesting to fly on a turbo prop.

At 10.45 boarding was called and we started to queue at the door. Our boarding passes were checked and then we headed out to the tarmac.