Originally Posted by
AussiePeter
Someone who can stump up $400 per annum or however much it is these days must have a few spare pennies in his pocket, especially if he's London based with the exchange rate at the moment.
Anyone who's got those "few spare pennies" would either be buying business class tickets or doing the relatively small amount of non-economy class flying that's needed to get to QF Gold/BA Silver/OW Sapphire.
Hence, anyone who's relying on Qantas Club membership to get access to BA lounges, and who by definition does not do/has not done the above, is unlikely to be a high value/high frequency passenger.
Originally Posted by
AussiePeter
... and T5 is a hellhole.
If T5 is a "hellhole" for you, I'd strongly advise not travelling to most airports in most of the world.
Even LHR can provide far worse experiences than T5.
Originally Posted by
AussiePeter
It is immensely disappointing that Qantas has not gone out to bat for us.
As I've pointed out before, you and I have no idea whether QF has gone in all guns blazing and has so far been met with a flat "no, under any circumstances" from BA, or whether it has simply not tried at all. So you have no basis for this statement.