Originally Posted by
jckl
I think they mean award upgrades on OW partner airline flights, such as avios upgrades on BA flights will still grant access to AM/AS but not Qmiles/Qcredit upgrades on QR. Which is why this new policy is ludicrous, laughable, very pathetic and extremely cheap.
Actually, I meant QRPC on an expensive flexible cash Y ticket upgraded with (quite a lot of) Qmiles gets no access whereas an AA redemption with low taxes and a mileage cost not much higher than the QR upgrade miles gets access. That seems silly, hence why most airlines allow paid upgrades to have lounge access given they are often restricted to more expensive fare classes.