I'm over VA not belonging to a global alliance. Remember Ansett? I used to travel east, west and north on an Ansett Star alliance member airline, had over a million miles (lost them all of course), and enjoyed the best reciprocal rights wherever I travelled all over the world with Ansett Star par...

No disrespect, but the BNE lounge is a bogan space and worse, there are those that bring the whole family in to fight over the offerings!