Permit me to piggyback off of the original post with a related question, in order to avoid creating a new thread.

I will be arriving SYD via SIN on BA in F, very early in the morning. I will be connecting to EY F; however, the EY flight departs at 21:45 and apparently their lounge is only open 3 hours prior to departure. (With a daily 14:50 departure and a 21:45 departure, I'm guessing that they close the lounge from about 14:00 to 18:45.)

Even though I am and Admiral's Club member and OWE, my ongoing flight is not OW, so I'm guessing that QF will take the attitude "tough cookies" and I'll be stranded for quite a few hours in the terminal. I will ask EY if they would kindly request a lounge pass from QF, given the circumstances; however, I do not expect that to happen.

The thought had occurred to me to burn 4,500 Avios points on a SYD-MEL award in order to have an ongoing QF BP; however, I see no SYD-MEL flights departing from the International Terminal. (There used to be a few domestic flights which departed from SYD's International Terminal...I guess that is history.) In any event, based upon the above posts, it seems like it might be a possibility (as long as I book an award flight SYD-MEL) to use the domestic QF 1st Class or Business Class lounge, until EY opens up its lounge for its evening flight.

Any thoughts/suggestions (especially those that are experience-based) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.