1 or 2 pax occupying 4-seat combo in lounge

[VHOEJ]

The lounges are not designed correctly. Seriously it is rare for 4 pax to travel together. More solo and duo setups are required.

Bingo. And the prime seats are usually near the windows - they need more single/pair seating to avoid this issue.

 

[amaroo]

Lounges are a never ending game of musical chairs. Common to see people doing laps trying to find an elusive free seat.....I don't begrudge anyone that might plonk themselves in a 4 seater - when they arrived it might have been the only option available. I've shared many a 4 seater over the years.

I get more frustrated with people who think a 3hour lunch in the SYD Flounge is acceptable:evil: Eat, drink, enjoy and then move on so others can do the same.

 

[samh004]

I regularly choose the 3/4 seat combo when travelling alone in the Dom J lounges. Not to be a pest, but I choose the seats based on comfort, and I quite like the brown leather ones that swivel a little, that are only found in this combination. Anyone else is welcome to sit with me, but I don't think I should be forced to choose a less comfortable seat because I'm on my own

 

[Pleb Status]

What I dislike is QF allowing four people to enter the lounge on one valid membership (the member, a partner and two children) and leaving no seating space for other members. I would like to see a strict one guest per membership policy.

 

[medhead]

What I dislike is QF allowing four people to enter the lounge on one valid membership (the member, a partner and two children) and leaving no seating space for other members. I would like to see a strict one guest per membership policy.

That is within the guest allowance. I hate the fact that I have 100 guest spots every year that go unused but a) I can't travel with my family and brother in law and his wife without begging for lounge access, and b) people begrudge my children entering the lounge entirely within the allowance.

 

[JohnK]

Anyone else is welcome to sit with me, but I don't think I should be forced to choose a less comfortable seat because I'm on my own

No one is forcing you but it is kind of selfish if the lounge is quite busy and there are people constantly looking for a spot.

 

[legroom]

What I dislike is QF allowing four people to enter the lounge on one valid membership (the member, a partner and two children) and leaving no seating space for other members. I would like to see a strict one guest per membership policy.

Leaving aside the issue that QF policy expressly allows this access, your policy 'thought bubble' would on occasions have the effect of separating the family (like someone here on AFF burning with rage sometime ago when [?] VA lounge angels in HKG refused to allow him to take a young child into the lounge - only his partner).

The number of children is capped by QF at two (between 3-17, from memory) reflecting the 'average' family size of our times.

Many travellers have family and to ask them to either give up their lounge access [net effect of your thought bubble] or to enjoy it with 1/2 of the family seems unreasonably harsh considering that the sheer logic of family traveling is that it is few and far in between - unlike the single road trips by many of us.

I do accept not everyone shares the same view - the prize of democracy.

... Anyone else is welcome to sit with me, but I don't think I should be forced to choose a less comfortable seat because I'm on my own

So, your 'comfortableness' would then lead to a family sitting in two separate areas.

Is that a comfortable thought?

Some would say yes, but I'd venture to suggest many more would disagree, bearing in mind that the 4 sitters are not looking for comfortable seats but just sitting together - a not too extravagant desire.

Or is it ?

 

[Pleb Status]

Leaving aside the issue that QF policy expressly allows this access, your policy 'thought bubble' would on occasions have the effect of separating the family (like someone here on AFF burning with rage sometime ago when [?] VA lounge angels in HKG refused to allow him to take a young child into the lounge - only his partner).

The number of children is capped by QF at two (between 3-17, from memory) reflecting the 'average' family size of our times.

Many travellers have family and to ask them to either give up their lounge access [net effect of your thought bubble] or to enjoy it with 1/2 of the family seems unreasonably harsh considering that the sheer logic of family traveling is that it is few and far in between - unlike the single road trips by many of us.

I do not argue that QF currently allows this access (up to four lounge seats for only one valid QP/status membership). However, it is my belief that QF are one of the few airlines in the world to provide this very generous 'family' benefit.

This thread was started on the premise that other valid QP/status members are being very inconsiderate in taking up precious QP space in place of up to three guests. Maybe families should take the very generous QP access regime as a win instead of complaining about where they are sitting in the QP, as the logical alternative to solve* this problem may not be to their liking (the one the most airlines in the world use, only one guest per member).

* may still be an issue if all passengers have status or flying in a premium cabin.....

 

[medhead]

I do not argue that QF currently allows this access (up to four lounge seats for only one valid QP/status membership). However, it is my belief that QF are one of the few airlines in the world to provide this very generous 'family' benefit.

This thread was started on the premise that other valid QP/status members are being very inconsiderate in taking up precious QP space in place of up to three guests. Maybe families should take the very generous QP access regime as a win instead of complaining about where they are sitting in the QP, as the logical alternative to solve* this problem may not be to their liking (the one the most airlines in the world use, only one guest per member).

* may still be an issue if all passengers have status or flying in a premium cabin.....

Your logic fails on the fact that the family are also validly in the lounge.

 

[Pleb Status]

Your logic fails on the fact that the family are also validly in the lounge.

Hence the * in my reply.

 

[amaroo]

* may still be an issue if all passengers have status or flying in a premium cabin.....

Plenty of kids fly up the front! Best not to worry about these things.....

 

[legroom]

Best solution is as suggested by Mal upthread: more single / double and fewer 4-seat combo to reflect the true nature of lounge usage.

That could be tweaked during school holiday / end of year etc....

Everyone should be happier IMO.

 

[samh004]

No one is forcing you but it is kind of selfish if the lounge is quite busy and there are people constantly looking for a spot.

So, your 'comfortableness' would then lead to a family sitting in two separate areas.

Is that a comfortable thought?

Some would say yes, but I'd venture to suggest many more would disagree, bearing in mind that the 4 sitters are not looking for comfortable seats but just sitting together - a not too extravagant desire.

Or is it ?

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

I have earned status, I have every right to sit in any vacant spot, and the thought that I should sacrifice my personal comfort after all my "loyalty" is crazy.

Best solution is as suggested by Mal upthread: more single / double and fewer 4-seat combo to reflect the true nature of lounge usage.

That could be tweaked during school holiday / end of year etc....

Everyone should be happier IMO.

Thats a good solution, but they could also add more of the comfortable chairs in smaller combos. The whole point of a lounge is to be away from the stresses and uncomfortableness of the terminal before a flight... so why would I want more uncomfortable seats in a single/double configuration? I would like more of the comfortable ones in that configuration though

 

[medhead]

Hence the * in my reply.

Your * still calls families a problem. So you fail to address the fact that the family is validly in the lounge.