No, the status match is only for the airlines listed in this article and none of those are OneWorld airlines like QR is. But your QR Platinum is better than QF Gold in some ways because it will get you into Qantas business lounges, QF Gold only gets you into Qantas Club lounges.

Wow, very impressed with The Club! Flying with Virgin yesterday out of Melbourne, what a great surprise. This space is amazing, no wonder John Borghetti poured so much money and effort into The Club. It's got a lot of space, people not crammed in too tight, the design and materials and finishes o...

If Virgin goes down this path then I think it should also offer a complimentary selection for Velocity Platinum members. Maybe this could be done through some sort of vouchers stored on the Virgin app, Golds get two or three per year and Platinums get five or six per year, so when you use them on...

I've done some Delta One flights from the US, it definitely can feel a littler bit like an office cubicle with the door closed, so I leave it open most of the time and just close it when I want to sleep. All things being equal I would prefer a business class with a door so I have that option, ove...

Not "selling all seats", as the article points out, only 149 seats were sold and the Qantas 787 has 236 seats, also middle seats were not sold. And plenty of articles over the past months have pointed out that aircraft are actually very safe compared to regular indoor environments due to their hi...