[benhadi]

HI everyone, was looking through Qantas website (re: Qantas Club) and bumped into this:

Access for Jetstar passengers

Qantas Club members travelling with Jetstar are welcome in any Qantas Club or QantasLink lounge. Simply show your boarding slip and Qantas Club card, or Platinum or Gold Qantas Frequent Flyer card, at the lounge reception. You may also invite one guest who need not be travelling. If you are travelling without luggage you can check in for your Jetstar flight in most Qantas Club lounges. When you fly Jetstar, you won't be able to access partner, associated or oneworld airline lounges.


Is this rule new or what? WHen i got my QC Life membership i did it with the understanding that i would be able to use all Qantas lounges (inclusive of partner and associated ones) when flying jetstar to the respective destinations. According to this, i wont be able to use the lounge at Denpasar, and other associated lounges at Jetstar's prospective destinations. (from a previous thread i understand that we don't get to use the Sakura lounge at Osaka anyway coz it's in a different terminal).

[aubs]

I didn't think a Qantas Club card (whether 1-year or life) ever gave access to non-Qantas lounges (apart from the BA ones under the JSA)

[Va Bene]

I noticed this recently when I was contemplating using points for a 2 year QP membership for my wife. Whilst she is OK for the main QF routes via HK and SIN, there would have been issues with lounge access (at the Europe end) once JQ starts flying to places like Rome with the new 787's if we choose this in the future. I have WP so generally it is OK if I travel with her but could prove difficult if it is the entire family on JQ (JQ is a last resort mind you) and there are lounge dragons on duty.
I thought *class may have given some options, but alas no.

I seemed to also remember seeing something about partner or associated lounges billing back to the airline on the ticket (eg QF) and as a LCC, I couldn't imagine JQ wanting to wear this.

Access to Partner airline lounges

In addition to Qantas Club lounges, you can relax in British Airways lounges (Terraces and Executive Club lounges) and American Airlines® Admirals Club lounges.
To access a partner airline lounge, simply present your Qantas Club card or Platinum or Gold Frequent Flyer card at check-in and again with your boarding pass at the lounge reception. You may also invite a guest. Note: both you and your guest must be travelling together and have onward travel that day on a flight marketed and operated by the partner airline whose lounge you wish to visit.***
*** Marketed and operated means a flight operated by the same airline whose flight number appears on your ticket. Includes American Airlines® or British Airways operated flights with a 'QF' flight number on your ticket.

[Alan in CBR]

For clarity, it is worth stating that there has been no change in lounge access for Qantas Club members.

It has only ever been:
- Qantas Clubs when travelling QF (or subsidiaries) or BA.
- BA clubs when travelling BA or QF.
- AA clubs when travelling AA or QF.

So, for example, no access to Cathay Pacific lounges in HKG (unfortunately) and no access to the QF lounge in SYD if travelling on CX (which made me boycott CX until I got oneworld status).

[Optics]

Originally Posted by Alan in CBR

For clarity, it is worth stating that there has been no change in lounge access for Qantas Club members.

It has only ever been:
- Qantas Clubs when travelling QF (or subsidiaries) or BA.
- BA clubs when travelling BA or QF.
- AA clubs when travelling AA or QF.

So, for example, no access to Cathay Pacific lounges in HKG (unfortunately) and no access to the QF lounge in SYD if travelling on CX (which made me boycott CX until I got oneworld status).

Does the temporary lounge at TBIT qualify under these entry rules? I believe it is a shared lounge with BA and others, but probably does not qualify as either QF, BA or AA, is this correct? If so, that would mean no access for QC members, only for OWE or OWS.

[Alan in CBR]

Originally Posted by Optics

Does the temporary lounge at TBIT qualify under these entry rules? I believe it is a shared lounge with BA and others, but probably does not qualify as either QF, BA or AA, is this correct? If so, that would mean no access for QC members, only for OWE or OWS.

Haven't been through TBIT since the temporary lounge opened - all my flights into and out of LAX have been through T4.

I seem to recall QF noting when the construction started that there would be no lounge at TBIT accessible to QC members, but I may be mistaken.