I'd tend to agree. I can only recall two One World itineraries where I was sent off to non-OW lounges (Star Alliance in these cases): JL sent me to the Air China First lounge in Beijing, and AA sent me to the Lufthansa lounge in Zurich.

SYD to ADL - 2hrs 10min
SYD to TSV - 2hrs 45min
SYD to CNS - 3hrs 10min
SYD to ASP - 3hrs 20min
SYD to AYK - 3hrs 35min
SYD to BME - 5hrs 10min

The man seems to know his timings... which I'm guessing is why he's called under the clocks !

Mrs christep and I were in the LHR T5 Concorde Room yesterday. It is a very nice lounge indeed in terms of its decor and ambience. Unfortunately a few of the details are less good:

- the Board Room where the internet terminals are is very hot. Apparently it has been like this since it was opened, but the staff seem at a loss to do anything except leave the doors open.

- this is less of an issue because the internet connectivity from the terminals in the Board Room is very poor, although strangely this is site specific - yahoo mail, hotmail, and Flyertalk, for example, simply don't work; but Google, BBC, and other random sites do. Laptop users seemed to have no problem with the complimentary WiFi.

- the Spa is (according to Mrs christep) very nice, but you are limited to one 15 minute treatment, so that's hardly enough to go out of your way for.

- there is full dining (which we didn't try, but the menu looked nice) and a good selection of F standard drinks, with very nice olives to nibble. Bollinger Grande Annee 1999 has now replaced Krug as my champagne of choice

Overall it is FAR superior to The Wing. I haven't been to the new QF F lounge in SYD yet to be able to compare. (Yes, I realise this is not really a fair like-for-like comparison since The Wing is an "F & Emerald" lounge, not F alone.)

Operated by JQ, and therefore from T2.

Where?

Once (or is it twice?) weekly, so doesn't count.

Dave

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There are a bunch of other regionals which are quite long too from memory - e.g. ASP-PER etc. Australia is a big place, in fact about the same size as continental USA.

Not sure I would agree here especially if you include SYD T3 + MEL domestic, they process large numbers of passengers especially in the lounge. In fact I think the MEL and SYD lounges are probably the largest airline lounges I have yet been in and there have been numerous times where one cannot find a seat and has to stand.

Back to the topic at hand, the MEL F lounge is pretty decent and not far behind the SYD F lounge (in fact some people even prefer it).