I am another for EK,
skywards silver member fly business class allowed 54kg each plus two hand luggage.

[QUOTE=DC10;9894701]Skytrax is a probably the most respected airline and airport review site. BA has quite a reasonable flat fee for extra baggage if you pre-pay (about £40), but be careful if code sharing on a Qantas plane (as many do) as it's not 100% clear whether the £40 rate applies then. The Qantas excess rates are pretty punitive.



Soon, all the BA flights to Australia will be code shared with Qantas when BA stop flying into Sydney. Think they stop at the end of March.

BA are still flying LHR-SIN-SYD after March.

ok it must be just the bangkok route they're stopping

Yes, I am doing that route in September with BA.

im ok for luggage.. but i did want access to the lounge at Brisbane but silver only gives access to the one in Dubai

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Didn't something change with that?

I think there is still lounge access for Silver members at DXB but not at the main business lounge or even in the terminal EK uses?

Thats off FT but on EKs web site it states silver can get access to DXB lounge.
Im only in DXB for 1.5hr so thats not a big deal id like to get lounge access at BNE tho we have a 02:30 departure, silver wont get you in at BNE tho

Interesting, I always thought is was some regulation as all airlines do, or used to, allow 2 pieces of checked baggage with flights to the US.

We've got an Emirates Citibank Platinum credit card and when we purchase our tickets with this card, it entitles us to a chaufferur service to and from Brisbane airport (within 60k's) and also access to the lounge in Brisbane, and considering our flight is around 2.30 am, that might come in handy.

looking into it further seems they reopened a lounge last June seems this is were the different lounges come in.

does that get you into all EK lounges? i have the same flight 02:30

my partner used this service last year and he said its the Emirates First/Business class lounge, which also allows access to the aircraft direct, without going through the normal channel downstairs.

When you say "all lounges", this service is only available in Australia as its an Australian credit card. You can't use it in Dubai or London, etc. We are only going as far as singapore anyway, and then getting a BA flight to Heathrow.