QF Business Lounges - A question
Nov 1, 18, 11:58 pm
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QF Business Lounges - A question
So it seems that all the Qantas Clubs have been re-branded as "QF Business Lounges". All fine and good. But how is it that as an Admirals Club member I have access to the lounges in MEL and SYD intl terminals, but not LAX? I don't get it. What am I missing? Is "Qantas Club" now only a QF domestic thing and the international terminal lounges are ....magically different.... after the name change?
Nov 2, 18, 12:31 am
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Originally Posted by JamesBigglesworth
So it seems that all the Qantas Clubs have been re-branded as "QF Business Lounges". All fine and good. But how is it that as an Admirals Club member I have access to the lounges in MEL and SYD intl terminals, but not LAX? I don't get it. What am I missing? Is "Qantas Club" now only a QF domestic thing and the international terminal lounges are ....magically different.... after the name change?
Nov 2, 18, 2:53 am
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Admirals Club members do not have access to all Qantas lounges. They have access to specific Qantas lounges that are "partner lounges".
Very few of the Qantas lounges outside of Australia are partner lounges. Only Auckland, Wellington and Singapore from what I can tell. The others, including LAX, cannot be accessed with Admirals Club membership.
Qantas lounges in international terminals have never been Qantas Clubs.
Very few of the Qantas lounges outside of Australia are partner lounges. Only Auckland, Wellington and Singapore from what I can tell. The others, including LAX, cannot be accessed with Admirals Club membership.
Qantas lounges in international terminals have never been Qantas Clubs.
Nov 2, 18, 4:21 am
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In addition, I am guessing, given that the (relatively) recent airside connection from T4 to TBIT, you have access to Admirals Club at LAX already, so AA are not going to pay for access to a different lounge at LAX.
Nov 2, 18, 5:43 pm
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Originally Posted by ButFli
Admirals Club members do not have access to all Qantas lounges. They have access to specific Qantas lounges that are "partner lounges".
Very few of the Qantas lounges outside of Australia are partner lounges. Only Auckland, Wellington and Singapore from what I can tell. The others, including LAX, cannot be accessed with Admirals Club membership.
Very few of the Qantas lounges outside of Australia are partner lounges. Only Auckland, Wellington and Singapore from what I can tell. The others, including LAX, cannot be accessed with Admirals Club membership.
Qantas lounges in international terminals have never been Qantas Clubs.
Nov 2, 18, 5:46 pm
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Originally Posted by bensyd
The business lounge at TBIT is a OW lounge not a QF lounge. The F lounge at TBIT is a QF lounge.
Rhetorical question time: Why do OW airlines seem to specialise in making it difficult to work out what you can and can't use?
Nov 2, 18, 5:56 pm
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Originally Posted by JamesBigglesworth
Why do OW airlines seem to specialise in making it difficult to work out what you can and can't use?
If you were getting access by virtue of oneworld privileges, then none of this would matter one jot.
Nov 2, 18, 6:37 pm
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Qantas have several Lounge Brandings:
I joined the Qantas Club in 1994 and while Qantas Club Members have had access to Qantas International Business lounges while flying QF, in those 24 years I have never seen reference to an international Business Lounge being specifically and officially labelled as a Qantas Club.
- First Lounge - LAX, MEL, SYD, AKL and, next year, SIN.
- International Lounge - SIN, BNE, LHR, HKG and, soon, AKL.
- International Business Lounge - AKL, NRT, HNL, MEL, SYD, WLG, LAX & PER (T1)
- Domestic Business Lounge - SYD, MEL, CBR, BNE & PER
- Qantas Clubs - Various Domestic locations
I joined the Qantas Club in 1994 and while Qantas Club Members have had access to Qantas International Business lounges while flying QF, in those 24 years I have never seen reference to an international Business Lounge being specifically and officially labelled as a Qantas Club.
Nov 2, 18, 6:44 pm
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Originally Posted by JamesBigglesworth
Yet at the entrance it markets itself as Qantas Business Lounge, not a OW lounge or a Qantas Club lounge.
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Note the following (with its caveats): (https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/...lub-access.jsp)
Where you can go
- Domestic and international Admirals Club locations
- All Alaska Airlines Lounges (when departing on flights marketed and operated by American, Alaska Airlines or Virgin America)
- All Qantas Clubs (when departing on same-day flights operated by Qantas, or operated by American out of Auckland, New Zealand or Sydney, Australia)
- Select partner lounges operated by third parties (on same-day flights operated by American)
Nov 2, 18, 10:36 pm
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Originally Posted by serfty
Qantas have several Lounge Brandings:
I joined the Qantas Club in 1994 and while Qantas Club Members have had access to Qantas International Business lounges while flying QF, in those 24 years I have never seen reference to an international Business Lounge being specifically and officially labelled as a Qantas Club.
- International Business Lounge - AKL, NRT, HNL, MEL, SYD, WLG, LAX & PER (T1)
I joined the Qantas Club in 1994 and while Qantas Club Members have had access to Qantas International Business lounges while flying QF, in those 24 years I have never seen reference to an international Business Lounge being specifically and officially labelled as a Qantas Club.
Ah well.
