Originally Posted by Mwenenzi

You could pay to join the Qantas club.
QF--->https://www.qantas.com/nz/en/frequen...hip-types.html
AA thread-->Qantas Club access to Admirals Lounge

Many years ago, before QF enforced the 4 QF flight rule, some in USA would fly enough to the get QF Gold(OWS) which came with QF club access rights. At the time some AA first class flights had very good earnings to QF ffp. Earning OWS was not that hard or expensive.