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Perhaps you should also consider if a lifetime membership commitment is the right thing for you. Looking at your post, I am a little bermused about the real problem issues with Qantas, but these things are not unique to Qantas and can (and do) happen with any airline. You may well find youself just as disappointed with your newly chosen airline soon after paying a lifetime membership.
Perhaps you can let us know some more detail about the nature of your bad experience. How was it that Qantas caused a 90 min delay for you in getting through to the departures area?
And drawing some conclusions from the information presented in your post, I assume you were originally booked on QF10 SIN-MEL, which is scheduled for a 6:20am arrival at this time of the year (something like 4:45am prior to daylight savings). So an 8 hour delay in getting into MEL would have you arriving after 2pm on a connection flight from BNE. I also assume you were rebooked onto QF52 from SIN-BNE, which should arrive into BNE around 6:25am. But you said you were moved onto another flight 7 hours later which implies either QF52 was running very late or you were moved onto a non-Qantas flight.
At that time of the day there is a free train between the terminals (just show boarding pass), and you should have had plenty of time for the inter-terminal connection to make a BNE-MEL flight that arrived into MEL after 2pm. So I can understand why Qantas would not pay for a taxi between the terminals when there is a free train availabe. Is there a specific reason why you needed to use a taxi and not the train between the terminals?
Back to the original question ... I am not aware of other airlines operating between Australia and Asia that offer a paid lifetime membership. Many, as you have noted, provide lifetime membership by way of earned FF membership status (even Qantas have this). And the tax benefits of purchasing a lifetime membership are marginal due to only being able to claim 10% of the cost each year for 10 years.
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