Thanks Chris,I'm based in Melb and travel in all directions - Europe, asia and USA. But, as mentioned, I'm pretty familiar with the first class lounges in Melb and elsewhere and do not feel that in itself is worth platinum. I suppose at the crux of it this question is - how much additional reward...

Hi all,Here's a question for the well-travelled of you. I'm Australian based and travel internationally enough each year to make qantas platinum (only just though). Up till now, I have been using the tactic of splitting my travel equally between OneWorld and Virgin partners so that I am gold on b...

Hi all,I've got some travel in the US planned next year. Does anyone know what a 'main cabin' AA flight is equivalent to in Qantas terms? Flexible economy? Or Discount economy?I'm mostly flying between Chicago and LAX. Trying to figure if worth booking on AA for the SC, or another better airline....