I visited the lounge in August'22. The food offering were good. The seating was good, but the showers were (IMO) inadequate for the numbers. Not sure if this was just something that happened on the day or not, but  they were admitting both Gold and Platinum frequent flyers to the one lounge ...

Yes, sorry - I meant 8 and 9 abreast rather than 9 and 10 abreast

No word on the economy seat confiuration on the 789s yet?  I fly a lot of QF and almost always in Y (> 450K kms last year on QF Y alone) and having flown BA's 788 Y seating, I'm not a fan of the 10 abreast seating - it felt like a 737 for a 9 hour flight).  I know that JL and NH are ...

South Korea is another country requiring a business visa to be set up before arriving at the border. Most other APEC member nations allow Australian citizens (at least) to get a business visa on arrival or dont differentiate between a business and tourist visa and allow visa free entry for Austra...

There is another lounge at DOH that OWE and OWS flyers (and presumably F and J pax if they wanted to), that's the Oryx Lounge which is at the same level as the F and J lounges but across the other side of the lower level (the giant Teddy level that is). It's pretty much the same size as the QR J ...