Qantas Tightens Lounge Access Rules, Impacting Frequent Flyers

0:00What's up Sydney? This is Sydney News Today, bringing you the city's fastest updates on what is happening now. Quantus has tightened its lounge access rules, ending easy entry for Jetstar passengers on international flights. Those travelers used to get complimentary digital invites through the frequent fire program or credit cards, but now they're locked out. Access remains for folks on Quantus operated flights, Quantus co-shares run by Jetstar and Jetstar domestic routes, as long as lounges have space. Frequent flyers are upset because they can no longer freely transfer those single use invites to friends, or trade them in online groups. Many get extras from credit card perks and share them during layovers. Experts call the transfer ban the real game changer, hitting holders of Quantus link cards hard. Those cards drive over 35% of Australian credit cards spending, so this cuts a major reward. The shift comes amid expected reserve bang moves to lower interchange fees by months end, which could pressure airlines to rethink points programs, sold to banks.

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