Qantas Chairmans Lounge

[sfennell]

Hi all,

Article from MSN.

"Damned forum won't allow me to post the link!!!"

"the link you would have seen"

Meanwhile, Qantas Club seems to be getting stripped of its quality year by year.

I will try editing this post to post the link.

Attempt 1: Still no luck!
Attempt 2: Still not able to post.

Not a lot of point to posting on a forum where you can't actually post what you want.

-SF

 

[coyote25]

Fairfax as the following article
http://www.theage.com.au/business/a...lias-most-secretive-club-20170124-gty550.html

 

[coyote25]

The secret club, no fees, invitation only (MPs, CEOs, community leaders etc), locations Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Really it's for the 0.1%. Interesting that they allow access even when flying on another airline.

 

[opusman]

You can post links once you have (I think) 10 posts to the forum. It's an anti-spam measure.

 

[hm520]

A good friend's father was a member for a few years. To sum it up briefly, there was amazing service, amazing assistance when making bookings and amazing people watching in the lounge.

 

[Flying mermaid]

The best perk was when my friend travelled with his family in Y on holidays - all 6 of them had access to the F lounge in Sydney.

 

[Princess Fiona]

The best perk was when my friend travelled with his family in Y on holidays - all 6 of them had access to the F lounge in Sydney.

The father of my daughter's friend is CL, large family and they always get into the F Lounge no problem at all and CL of course domestically.
My daughter keeps asking when we'll get in there every time there's a Social Media update from the friend.
My card's lost in the post somewhere obviously

 

[mviy]

The article was poorly written:

"No amount of frequent flyer points will get you through the door. Points build frequent flyer status, from Silver to Platinum One, but won't open the Chairman's Lounge."

You can get a million plus points from credit cards and still be a Bronze member. Understanding the difference between points and status credits is a basic part of understanding the QANTAS Frequent Flyer Program something the author of The Age article clearly hasn't mastered.

 

[mviy]

The best perk was when my friend travelled with his family in Y on holidays - all 6 of them had access to the F lounge in Sydney.

Wow. As a lowly WP I'd love to get just two guests in to the FLounge when flying J return to LHR but the rules only allow one guest for WP. One of the guests I'd like to take in should reach WP when arriving back into Australia after the return trip but sadly getting to status after a trip doesn't count for anything when it comes to lounge access.

Having to choose between going to the J Lounge or what we will do in splitting up and one going to the J Lounge is not ideal, but still having FLounge access for any of us is pretty special.

 

[opusman]

My card's lost in the post somewhere obviously

I'm sure it's just a matter of time!

 

[njba]

I keep hearing stories from friends who have visited (by virtue of traveling with a member) and shaking my head. They wouldn't appreciate it they way I would! One day. I wonder how old the youngest member is?

 

[TheInsider]

My daughter keeps asking when we'll get in there every time there's a Social Media update from the friend.

If you have to ask to be a part of that club, then you will never be a part of that said club!

 

[Pushka]

Our friend is C Club. Guess being CEO of a Bank (not a big 4) does that for you.

A few of us lucky AFF'ers were invited in a couple of years ago.

 

[RichardMEL]

The father of my daughter's friend is CL, large family and they always get into the F Lounge no problem at all and CL of course domestically.
My daughter keeps asking when we'll get in there every time there's a Social Media update from the friend.
My card's lost in the post somewhere obviously

As a Princess you outrank most of those .... (rhymes with Merchant Bankers) in there anyway.... they're doing you a favour.. really.. honest..

 

[hm520]

Guess being CEO of a Bank (not a big 4) does that for you.

Precisely. Being a CEO or higher ranking pollie is likely to get you a membership invitation. It can't hurt when you direct company flights towards a certain airline. That said I even know of staffers of pollies who have been gifted gold status.

 

[Flying mermaid]

What has always bugged me, is that as a businessperson tendering for work with the public service, I couldn't even give a box of chocolates to staff at Christmas - it broke all procurement guidelines. However Qantas can give CL status worth thousands of dollars to hundreds of public servants and that is no problem.

 

[kpc]

What has always bugged me, is that as a businessperson tendering for work with the public service, I couldn't even give a box of chocolates to staff at Christmas - it broke all procurement guidelines. However Qantas can give CL status worth thousands of dollars to hundreds of public servants and that is no problem.

I personally think all public servants including politicians should be prohibited from accepting CL membership. It is basicailly a bribe!

 

[coriander]

Mrs C is an attendee at a meeting at the CL in Melbourne next week :mrgreen: - that's as close as we'll ever get to the CL. I'll ask her for a full report.

 

[Danger]

Perhaps we could merge this thread with one of the other multiple threads on the same topic.

 

[coyote25]

I personally think all public servants including politicians should be prohibited from accepting CL membership. It is basicailly a bribe!

Well normal public servants, not MPs or military, would be fired for accepting a gift like this. I think as normal public servant you can accept an office made coffee anything more an you could be fired.

At the end of presentations APS staff might accept a bottle of wine in front of the crowd but generally hand it back in private or ask for it to be donated to someone else. But the very senior public service, MPs, senior military etc have different rules.