Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
At HKG, DL has been using the QF business class lounge. [It's very good.] So there's precedent or at least other examples of DL paying for access to oneworld lounges in certain airports. If DL doesn't see fit to maintain a lounge at an airport where there should be one, for example for BE passengers, obviously DL should compare possibilities for contract lounges versus lounges operated by other carriers.
Unfortunately, when I went through Hong Kong in early December, Delta had shifted to using the Air France-KLM Lounge. Was disappointing since I had been keen on wanting to check out the Qantas Lounge, but you're right there is a history of using airlines from other alliances to take care of passengers in certain places (Didn't Delta use a US Airways Club in PHL prior to the Sky Club?).