A few complainers commenting.  I took a status match last year and it was well worth it. We flew their equivalent of premium economy from Sydney to Las Vegas (via LAX) , had lounge access in all cities which was really helpful in LAX as we had 3 hours to wait for the international leg.  ...

Hilarious reading some of these replies. There are so many daily options to the USA you can mix and match as much as you like and even Qantas has more options out of the East Coast of Australia to the USA.  You'd think from some of the replies that Qantas had removed all access to the USA .....

Having been on the Simplon Orient Express London to Venice twice I can say it lives up to every expectation. In a sense it is "old school" luxury train travel ( no showers, a lot of movement in the carriages, shared dining on at least one of the meal sittings) but that really is part of the exper...

So your prime motivation in getting the membership was to bring non-flying guests into the lounge? Kinda makes sense why Qantas did this when I read this. 

Good news. Those in a flyers lounge should be flyers - if you're just meeting friends or family then that's what coffee shops are for. Anything the airline does to keep crowds as low as possible is a good thing.