Qantas Denial of OW Emerald access to Sydney First Lounge

[RooFlyer]

One reading is that you can get all the benefits just by holding the relevant status, whether or not it’s attached to the booking. Another reading, which some airlines seem to be exploring, is that your status must be in the booking, otherwise hiw does the airline know.

For me, the reading is straightforward and is expressed in the positive entitlement simply by holding status

Members of oneworld airline frequent flyer programmes with the equivalent of oneworld Emerald or Sapphire tier status can use lounges offered by oneworld airlines when departing on any flight marketed and operated by any oneworld member airline, regardless of cabin class being flown (exceptions are noted below).

Later on they go to list specific exceptions by the airline etc which are pretty well known.

If they or some of them add a new rule or exception “ … applicable only to lounges of the airline you were flying on and crediting your frequent flyer points to” then to me that must break one of the major reasons of the airline alliance system. No point me necessarily flying American or Finnair or BA overseas if my Qantas platinum gives me no material privileges. I might as well fly a skyTeam or starAlliance airline.

 

[jase05]

No point me necessarily flying American or Finnair or BA overseas if my Qantas platinum gives me no material privileges.

If you add your QFF number you will get the privileges flying on those airlines.
I’m thinking it will be come more common