Originally Posted by
1worldFlyer
The very page you just cited contradicts your account by stating:
I don't know why that page says that, but it's true that the QR CDG lounge did not admit oneworld élites in Y when it was open. Others can corroborate.
Originally Posted by
1worldFlyer
How does QR get away with restricting access to some of their lounges by excluding otherwise eligible oneworld elites? As a member of the oneworld alliance, why does QR not have to abide by general alliance lounge access rules and provide reciprocal access to all eligible oneworld elites?
Oneworld airlines can have lounges that only admit F/J pax on any oneworld airline. That's what QR does. As long as QR also doesn't allow its own élites to use the lounge, that is in line with oneworld policy. CX J pax used to have access to the QR lounge before CX moved terminal at CDG, but not QR's own élites travelling on QR Y, for example.
Originally Posted by
scubadu
They only have 3 flights a day out of CDG and they built a premium lounge there.
As a point of correction, there are currently 4 daily QR flights to CDG (QR38/40/42/44), though I don't know if they only had 3 when the lounge opened.
Originally Posted by
1worldFlyer
It seems more likely that JL will relocate their existing lounges to T3 or that the oneworld airlines will work together to build a shared lounge.
If JL were to relocate their lounge, I think JL would have simply said it.
https://www.jal.co.jp/jp/en/info/2026/inter/260218/ would not say "Terminal Relocation of Japan Airlines and closure of JAL Lounge...." JL only has 1 daily flight, and JL isn't keeping any lounge anywhere that has 1 daily flight. Other than FRA, the outstation airport that has its own JL lounge with the least daily JL service is BKK, 4.