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I got burnt by the same issue. Qantas is very good at promoting the Double Status/Points - not so great in explaining that Emirates flights (even if under a QF flight code) are excluded. The wording in the promotion material at best is ambiguous - if not a little misleading - but if you do...

UPDATE: I ended up contacting Emirates directly to confirm whether Qantas Club access would grant access to the holder of the membership and their guest and was told by the customer service agent that they were unsure and would need to escalate to a higher authority. The response came back...

Indeed ... clear as mud. We have a 3-day stopover in Dubai, hence the 'same day' provision is unhelpful. On one reading of the Qantas website, it seems like it will be ok - but when you scratch the surface there are these quirky sub-rules and footnotes that are difficult to interpret. I...

The ambiguity centers on the footnote to the 'Partner Lounge' access table which says that: Qantas Club members travelling on Emirates are entitled to lounge access on flights departing from Australia only. I've no idea what this sentence means? If I am flying DXB to Europe on an Emirates...

Thanks ... I should have made the point that we have other family travel coming up next year and the Qantas Club math's makes it cost effective for us. Its more just the ambiguous Emirates Lounge access rules in both Dubai and Zurich I am trying to clarify.

I am Gold FF travelling to Europe at end of year with my family. I've been through DXB several times and have had easy access to the Emirates lounges previously. This time I will have my wife and two adult sons. Have reviewed both the Qantas & Emirates websites for clarification as to how many...

Re: "oneworld" award (140K) - We have a winner! It took me several attempts and serval sessions to decipher all of the advice contained across this topic from the over 300 pages of commentary -- but thanks to this forum I was able to confirm a family trip for 4 under the OneWorld award for this...

Alas ... years of brand loyalty and tireless points accumulation didn't add up to a hill of beans. Recently returned from family trip to Singapore. Work commitments meant that our travel dates were pretty much fixed, which does not help when you try to use FF points. Disappointed to learn...

I've just been pondering this same issue -- is it better to stay with Qantas FF, or revert back to Commonwealth Awards. We've got 500,000 QFF's that have been accumulated by both flights and Points comming across from Commonwealth (Just got offered Diamond at no extra cost!!). Have gone to use...

To complete the circle - just thought I would share the reality of the day. Flight out of Brisbane left about 2 minutes late. We were also a few minutes late getting into Sydney as there was a hold up at the gate ... we were also a fair way back in the plane, so by the time we actually got...

The Qantas FF website advises that FF seats can be released up to 353 days in advance. I'm planning to travel Brisbane/Sydney to Japan in January 2012. Today is the first day my travel dates show up as live on the Qantas website - but for a 2 month window through December 2011 and January...

Yeah ... I know. Due to location I was happy with Sofitel. Just unhappy that they choose to treat their customers so poorly. Crazy thing is - is that if they had showed some restraint and not tried to sign me up to their A-Club program till after my stay I would have been none-the-wiser that...

I'm usually a Hilton person - but I had snagged a deal at Sofitel at Queenstown for next year. As a consequence of the booking they signed my up to A-Club. First email I got showed that I had paid an unnecessary $100AUS premium for my accommodation. On contacting Accor with a view to...

I happend to be in Sydney today - so thought I would get some advice direct from the international transfer desk. QANTAS staff were excellent - but they did confide that the BNE > Queenstown connection is one of their weekly nightmares. Why do QANTAS do this to themselves? They confimred that...

Thanks - that's great advice! Thanks to this and recent posts I'm much happier to let nature take its course, and put faith in QANTAS. As an earlier post suggested - its probably in their interest to hold the flight if it looks like there is only a few minutes difference. If due to bad karma...

I looked into this option as well - as I was nervous about the flight. But the last flight out of Brisbane I could find was pretty early. Without going back to my notes I think it was 8:00 or 8:30 pm. Work commitments prohibit me from making this flight. With the hand I have been dealt...

3) Assume that we were attending a wedding: what evidence would I need to provide for QBE to be satisfied that we were attending a 'special event'? I've just got an email from QBE - they advised that 2 sets of facts would need to be demonstrated. The first condition is that the delay cannot...

Yes - Same PNR. My question is really focused on what will Qantas do for me if I can't make the connection. Would they likely opt to get me to another NZ city later that day, or lay me over for 24 hours in Sydney. From all the research I have done, no other Qantas flight can get me to...

I've just booked a flight through Qantas website Brisbane to Queenstown via Sydney for next year. The connection time between the two flights is only 60 minutes. I've been in contact with Qantas and they have confirmed that this is a legal connection time - but I have read on other posts on...