Originally Posted by
Firipu
This is because CX and NZ have a strategic alliance on flights between NZ and HK, so they codeshare on each other's flights, and CX passengers can use the NZ lounge in AKL, and NZ passengers the CX lounges in HKG.
Though if you are travelling on a CX plane with a CX flight number, and is a Oneworld Sapphire and above, I would've thought that you could've accessed the QF lounge at AKL too?
I know about the CX/NZ codeshares, but I just assumed alliance would trump that.
In any event, I did not try to access the QF lounge when I was at AKL mainly because my BP specifically had a lounge invite to the NZ lounge. As OWS, I assume I would've been able to access the QF lounge as well, but we all know that QF (and QR) can be finicky about lounge access.
It didn't help that the signage in the terminal was a bit confusing (due to construction).