<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PremEx:
Sounds like by the time you earn your Lifetime airline lounge membership, your Lifetime will be just about over!</font>
Only on third-world airlines. QF really has this sorted, in fact you can buy lifetime lounge access (QF, AA & BA lounges) for either $$$ or points with "Qantas Club Lifetime Membership".
As previously mentioned, QF elites can also qualify for lifetime free membership by obtaining lifetime gold, at 14,000 status credits (the equivalent of 10 cunningly planned F RTW trips).
Or, in my case, about 7 years of extensive discount Y, short-haul international Y and long-haul international J travel...
If you travel occasionally on QF, and often on either BA or AA (or both), you'd be mad to sign up for their programmes, when the benefits of the QF programme are so much better.