Oneworld emerald can't access Concorde room. Not different than qatar.

I for one would be very disappointed if QR left OW. I live in the IAD area and will be traveling to south africa in may 2020. We traveled with them in bus. in sept 2017, Tthey have my=uch better award availability BA.

OW sapphire and emeralds have the same lounge entitlement as QR FFP equivalents. That's all QR is required to offer under the OW agreement.

20 year anniversary, eh? Maybe a 20% off sale on OWE tickets, similar to the 10% off sale we enjoyed on the 10th anniversary?

I have my credit card ready :D

I'm not entirely sure that's equivalent because BA Gold cannot access the Concorde room either... only those flying in First or with a Concorde Room Card (5,000TPs a year) can.

New website layout, with new benefits etc listed for the future, oneworld branded and managed lounges.... London Heathrow, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, Beijing listed as first potential locations for these lounges

There is a bunch of press releases at: www dot oneworld dot com slash news (sorry, cannot post URLs yet).

Then the number of BAEC Gold members will drastically go down :P

Nothing really tangible from the announcement. Some fancy new graphics, a new tagline, and a digital make-over. Only real thing being announced was OW designed and managed lounge possibly being rolled out later this year. Lots of alluding to possible new partners or new members...

Was there anything of actual interest?

Nothing
All show and no go

Time flies - 20 years already. I could remember the day OW was announced. In QF treasury dealing room we were told to watch Reuters and Bloomberg screens for the announcement, by the 3 founding members AA, BA and QF.

I think you'll find that CX was a founding member too.

Please stay, QR. I need you in Nov for selfish (read TP) purposes to CPT! I spent a lot of money on those seats!!