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While the move doesn't car rentals kona hawaii affect status-tiered members of the Qantas Frequent Flyer scheme, it will impact the many thousands of Australian business travellers who pay upwards of $400 a year to use the Qantas Club lounges in Australia and partner lounges overseas.
That changes from October 1st, with the Qantas Club card only valid for entry into Qantas and select partner lounges if you're on a Qantas or Jetstar ticket with the appropriate QF or JQ flight code.
For example, if you're heading from Sydney through Dubai to Frankfurt and flying in economy, you'll have to be on the Qantas codeshares for those flights which are QF8415 and QF8047, respectively rather than the Emirates flights EK415 and EK047 in order to use the Emirates Business Lounge during your Dubai stopover.
car rentals kona hawaii The changes hold particular sting for residents of Perth, given that Qantas no longer operates regular international flights out of the West Australian capital while partner Emirates runs two daily flights to Dubai and beyond.
Mmmmm... This looks like the thin edge of the wedge. I bet that this continues to change car rentals kona hawaii and soon standard QF Club members with Bronze status get no access to international lounges and it becomes a domestic lounge access system only.
I agree, can't trust Qantas management these days. Although some believe that this change is fair, ultimately the QC is there for those who do travel car rentals kona hawaii often but just not often enough to gain enough status credits.
How negligible is the price difference of a ticket in booking between an EK and QF flight number in order to maintain access? It would be interesting to see the pros and cons and how many people would do that?
I suspect this revelation is more of a case of limiting UAE based Qantas Club members from getting easy access car rentals kona hawaii to the Emirates lounge in Dubai (who'd have had no access without status before the partnership) than it is an effort car rentals kona hawaii to curb access for Australian members.
i agree...makes sense to me.. the thing is, some people confuse QANTAS CLUB (membership) with QANTAS F/F(tier benefits)...Q CLUB members seem to think they have all the rights/benefits of a high tier F/F
I visited the lounge maybe 4 times a year...and paid $485 for the membership. My cost/visit was most likely higher than what they spent on me as a "guest". And no, I didnt get treated like royalty there for the record.
I choose to fly EK or EY because in their infinite "wisdom", QF was smart enough to give EK code-shares on all their routes more or less, while only taking back a fraction. There are no QF codes for the EK6## flights from DXB into the sub-continent.
The issue is that in the old days, Qantas Club membership got you a whole lot more than it does now -- I don't know the exact rules but I seem to remember it was pretty much any oneworld lounge while flying pretty much any oneworld airline.
These benefits have been slowly eroding over the years, while the price of membership has only been going up. Isn't that enough to be an "issue" for people? (Especially those who paid through the nose for life memberships some years ago?)
While I don't disagree with this when flights have both a QF and EK code availability, it does cause problems for QC members flying out of Perth, as well as those flying to EK destinations where QF currently do not codeshare.
I am in this boat. As a QC member, I was planning to book through Qantas to fly to MLA, however no QF codeshare exists between DXB and MLA, just the EK flight. THis will now lock me out the Dubai lounge, and as a VA Plat, makes the option of flying EY to MLA via FCO too appealing, especially given I will get access to EY's F lounge.
Pre the QF/EK tie up, I would have had access to the lounge in Singapore during transit. That's not the point however. What I was getting at is that QF became the airline of choice for me to MLA given that EK fly directly to MLA from DXB, and I would have had lounge access during transit. With this benefit now gone, I have to seriously weigh up the option of an extra leg from FCO to MLA (which is very short) to get lounge access car rentals kona hawaii at AUH, or have no lounge access at DXB. I'm now very much leaning towards the former.
Hmmmm... A lot of taking away of priveliges and not much of adding anything. We are on a downward spiral. car rentals kona hawaii Starting to wonder what is my best move as a QF Platinum flyer, probably should start thinkong about the switch.
Sorry, the point is that they are just chopping and chopping... I don't care what they do to the "paid" memberships, and agree with the above/below that it possibly should have been that way already.
I'm just saying car rentals kona hawaii it doesn't look good when they are cutting into these programs all the time, but never reaally seem to be adding much for anyone.As a platinum I say chop all the silver car rentals kona hawaii and gold members too! Platinum or nothing! :p
personally i hope QF does away with the 'QANTAS CLUB' concept..too 'old school'..having 'duel' branded lounges (QC AND BUSINESS) throughtout OZ isn't very 'economic'...consolidate into one, and access is via FF status and/or cabin class...(which will also 'free' up floorspace of QCs to be intergrated into Q LOUNGES)
Sure the argument will go that a QP ex SYD to LHR on an Award on QF1/2 or 9/10 will get lounge access, but I wonder what the QP and Award and Perth combination really brings up on the Qantas system? I'd wager not very much, so the instance of upsetting a QP heading to Europe on Award points would be fairly minimal car rentals kona hawaii in the scheme of things.
Qantas pays for people to access partner lounges. If they are QC only and book on EK, they lose money for each person entering the partner lounge. Qantas even pays for JQ passengers car rentals kona hawaii entering car rentals kona hawaii QF lounges. At QF will make money from QC customers flying on a QF ticket.
Qantas allows you to bring in 2 young children car rentals kona hawaii into the lounge in addition to a guest. This is great when you take the family travelling. This applies car rentals kona hawaii to all Qantas lounges both domestically and overseas.
The only other time I have had problems with this was with BA in London who once refused family access (One World Rules only allow the card holder plus 1 guest). So I went around to the Cathay lounge (who I was not even flying with) and they very kindly allowed family entry.
Its something that Qantas needs to sort out - if the lounges are supposed to be proxies for Qantas lounges (such as London Dubai) for travellers flying on QF flights then they should try to ensure those proxie loungies apply the normal Qantas Club rules. Where its just a pure One World arrangement then the standard car rentals kona hawaii One World rules are fair enough.
The 2 plus children car rentals kona hawaii rules are only applicable to Qantas operated lounges... rules are different for all the qantas lounges that Qantas don't operate - there are many of them overseas, not just Dubai.
I take 50 - 60 QA flights a year all flexi fares, when I go on a family holiday I also get hit by these stupid rules. It's just really bad business to treat frequent flyers like that, you can tell Joyce is a bean counter not a marketter.
It's borderline revolting how self-entitled some "frequent" flyers seem to be...yes you fly a bazillion miles a year and get lounge access, that doesn't mean people who have paid good money to be there deserve to be shown the door.
I have some issues with this anyway I recently travelled to HKG in j, whilst trying to access the QF lounge (old lounge) there wasnt a spare seat anywhere! luckily we spent most of our visit at the wing anyway so it wasnt a major issue. I believe car rentals kona hawaii if you pay a business fare which is generally far and beyond that of an economy fare you should get a seat.. rant over.
This new rule will affect our trip Syd/Dxb/Nbo on 1 Oct. We booked car rentals kona hawaii and paid in Feb having assurance that we could use the Lounges under the new partnership!! I rang QF Club but they have no solution as they do not have any further instructions from HQ. Does anyone know the protocol or have any advice? car rentals kona hawaii Ta
You booked under the standard Terms and Conditions of the flight. I am sure it didn't give you the written terms anywhere that gave you express authority to use the lounges? Sorry to say, but unless you cancel the booking and choose to go another route, on another carrier, you have little recourse I would expect.
You're car rentals kona hawaii right abt the t c. I usually preferred QF but the timing with the particular EK flight (not available under QF?) has the shortest car rentals kona hawaii wait time. Also, flight centre agent assured me, otherwise I would have booked QF, albeit more expensive.