It will be interesting to see if this pushes up prices on the BNE-LAX service with QF and VA with 300 odd seats taken out of the market...

I am flying on QF74 tonight and had no trouble getting into the Cathay pacific lounge at all. They did look a little curiously at my Alaska airlines boarding pass and but entered in my frequent flyer number from my membership card. Mind you the lounge was not at all full. This was about 8pm so fe...

I have status matched my Qantas Gold to United Gold and booked a flight with over 19,000 PQM's so I'm assuming this will be enough to qualify for United Gold. I am guessing your reference to the 12,500 is pro rata for the year?