Qantas opens business class check-in to Silver frequent flyers

On BA, only BA Silver and Gold Card (OW Sapphire and Emerald)  holders get priority boarding.

As a QF Silver (OW Ruby) you'd normally have to wait with the normal queue when on BA.

You've been lucky.

BA gives priority boarding to Bronze/Ruby equivalent.

https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/executive-club/tiers-and-benefits/compare-the-tiers

As of August 18th, BA will by tier (unlike the free for all farce now where 3/4 of the plane qualifies) - so OWE first, OWS next, then OWR.

correction: BA will board by tier

OWR, OWS and OWE all have priority boarding on BA.

A bit of a farce really as it means on some flights most of the plane has priority boarding. I've been on a few of the early morning EDI-LHR 767 flights where I've left the lounge before the boarding call (which is called early in the lounge to give those there a head start) to find myself queuing behind at least 60-80 people in the fast track queue.

BA did run a modified boarding trial a-la-AA a month ago from certain stations (including EDI) where they boarded BA Gold/OWE, then BA Silver/OWS, then BA Bronze/OWR before general boarding. All good in practise except for the fact that after announcing boarding for OWE they only wait about 10 seconds before announcing boarding for OWS...

Generally other oneworld airlines like BA and CX extend their own frequent flyer benefits to other frequent flyers from the oneworld networks

It was about three years ago when I flew cathay from Brisbane via Cairns to Hong Kong as a QF silver and upon noticing the sign welcoming the OW Ruby flyers I checked in at the Business Class desk and was told that I can do that on an CX flight. Upon boarding the same checkin staff were also operating the boarding lanes and when she saw me standing there I was called foward and told again I can always use the prority lanes as a QF Silver when flying on CX 

Its small benefits like that which the other OW airlines don't publish

I doubt it

Premium Economy passengers dont get priority baggage so i doubt Silver will start getting it.

But the changes are great. I have a trip booked in mid august so this is perfect

Last flight on Qantas I had prority attatched but that was from Brisbane -> Sydney -> Tokyo

It was all on the one ticket in economy and prority bag was printed on the label in Brisbane from the computer system

The commitment to priority baggage for high tier FFs is a bit of a con anyway. The number of times I have had to wait until the carousel is almost empty and everybody else has their bag before mine arrives. I don't think priority baggage should be offered as a member benefit if it isn't guaranteed.

Oneworld Ruby & QFF Silver members already had Business checkin before Premium Economy was a thing so really its just adding this back. 

Only time will tell if it creates more queues at checkin. 

Those poor people in business will just have to relax and enjoy the countless other benefits such as lounge access, flat bed, incredible food and champagne ay?

You must be reading very old news, that has been that case for over 20 years now

Hi sdtravel – have not seen any memebr updates from Qantas but the website has been updated to relect this, see https://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/flying/tier-benefits#at-the-airport

And if you're particularly concerned you might get turned away at the business class check-in counters, print out a copy of the page and bring it with you to show staff.