Queenstown
 

On the Oneworld web site the lounge search list Queenstown as below.


"Air New Zealand, Koru Club*

Location details: 2nd Floor Queenstown Airport Terminal

Opening hours: Daily 09:00-17:00

Operated by a third party on behalf of: Qantas"

Is it a mistake?

AFAIK QF pays for access to the koru lounge for some international passengers (ie on ZQN-SYD), but not for domestic passengers. I am unsure who exactly the access is for - some or all of business class, paid Qantas club, oneworld emerald, oneworld sapphire, QFF platinum/chairman's lounge/gold?

We flew out of ZQN on the 4th April (both QF Gold). The checkin staff told us there was no lounge :(

AFAIK this is for business class only. Maybe CL gets access as well.

That makes sense. The ZQN lounge is fairly small (NZ doesn't allow guests for *G for example) so numbers with access have to be limited (particularly with NZ flights timed similarly to QF). If QF only has a few invites they can give out then makes sense to give them to high fare (ie biz) pax.

Very interesting!

Having been through ZQN numerous times and always on a QF ticket I had also never been told that there was any lounge access. Have done both ZQN-SYD and ZQN-CHC on QF.

There is no lounge access at ZQN on domestic for any QF pax.

Thats ok, there wont be anymore QF DOM pax at ZQN shortly.

But the Int QF PAX should continue.