Originally Posted by yellow77
This is correct. The part where you say
is not. It has to be an international itinerary. A RTW is almost by definition an international itinerary, so you get QP access on flights that are part of the RTW ticket.
Also, if you fly QF AKL-LAX then you can connect to the QF LAX-JFK flight. This is allowed. What's not allowed is to fly into LAX on anything other than a QF flight number (so you can't use the AA codeshare flight), or to stopover in LAX. You have to go international flight-(QF)-LAX-(QF)-JFK with no stopover in LAX, or vice versa. See the discussion at the end of this thread
http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthrea...ighlight=QF107.
That's why I mentioned purely domestic itineraries in my second sentence as certainly your argument can be made and it worked for me once. But just last december I was refused access to the QC while on domestic J flights in Oz that were ticketed as part of an AONE but the flights were not connecting to or from an international flight. Others have had similar results. Others have been allowed access. Dave Noble says it depends on whether your itinerary starts in Oz or not. Often it depends upon the person standing guard at the lounge
Unless I'm mistaken the thread you cite to talks about access to the AC and FL not the QC and I think actually supports my position. If you are flying A class on an AA domestic flight you do not get access to the AC or FL unless you are connecting to an international segment (unless your access is through status or QC membership).