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Having been PPS for 4 years now, I must in all honesty say that is really not worth much at all. Pretty well all the documented "benefits" are just things you get anyway by flying J or F. The only real tangible benefits I can see are: - extended seat selection availibility...in J you can get the...

I had a J trip scheduled to start March 31, cancelled by SQ, I have requested a refund, and received this last Friday (24/4): No sign of any funds appearing so far though...

Got this e-mail today: Be thankful for small mercies...

Sorry I couldn't make it...was still feeling a bit iffy and didn't want to inflict myself on others. If when there is a next one I will make an extra effort to turn up...with no travel in the near future my budget is in terrific state...

I could easily be tempted, if you don't mind being regaled with a litany of my miseries over the last month or so..will confirm tomorrow.

Here I am again in the SIN T2 lounge (actually departing SQ 237 from T3) and again it is much quieter than the T3 lounge usually is at this time, maybe a bit over half full.

Put me down as "likely"...assuming I recover from my present bout of Manlia-acquired Lurgi...

I have just received this apparently from Amex: HUH??? Maybe the work experience kids have moved on from Qantas? That number bears no resemblance to anything remotely obvious. And I didn't know my surname is apparently a date...

I am in the SIN T2 SKL right now, and it is very quiet; maybe 25% full. This is a pleasant contrast to the T3 SKL which tends to be an overcrowded zoo most of the time IME. In my view, SIN T3 is far too big for a single SKL to be adequate;l it really needs multiple smaller lounges, a la CX at HKG.

Wine is, and always has been IIRC, self-serve in domestic lounges.

This unfortunately appears to be a fairly common problem; I have experienced it myself several times. It is very intermittent and there seems to be no obvious cause. It also occurs sometimes on other websites using 2FA vis SMS. I have queried the phone company but they plead ignorance.

QF29 did indeed depart about 30 mins late (plane did not arrive at the gate until about 9am); However we were blessed with a very quick flight time and arrived in HKG 20 mins early.

..and today.. it is already showing a 30 min delay

I notice that QF29 (MEL-HKG 789) was delayed from 0935 to 1137 this morning; expected arrival is ~90 mins late. Hope it is more punctual tomorrow when I am on it..

Some years ago, in QF international Y, I was given a bottle of Piper-Heidsieck as a sweetener after an FA accidentally spilled some tea on me. Was just before Xmas, and went down very well!

Actually, the UK had possession of Hong Kong island and Kpwloon for all time; it was only the New Territories that were subject to the lease that expired in 1997. And the way thay initially acquired the first two was extremely nasty; do some research on "the opium wars".

If there were 250K Plats, then non-elites would be the rare exception on most flights! This number would probably be a fair estimate for all elites in total.

Well, finally ventured out to see what is happening: it is all a bit surreal, Nathan Rd is blocked off as far as the eye can see and has become a vast pedestrian walkway, as have quite a few other major roads: this seems to mainly be a result of junk on the roads. There are still quite a few...

Looking out my window, there seem to be a lot of very strange things going on, and a lot of shouting/chanting in the distance; however I don't think it would be wise to investigate further right now!

Well, here I am in HK (got here last Thursday), and I must say mostly it has been pretty quite and uneventful. Until this afternoon... I got the MTR from Central-> Jordan about 1:30pm. To my surprise the train did not stop at TST, but went straight to Jordan; when I arrived there, the exit I...