Earliest time to check-in/use F Lounge at SYD T1?

[beardoc]

Agree! Now days if I book the spa its for 1.5 hours prior to departure - allows arrival at airport 2 hours before departure and then straight to boarding. Everything else in the lounge (except the view) you can enjoy at home.

What time does the day spa start? Does it open when the lounge opens?

 

[Speedbird001]

I'm going to be taking a trip shortly that will leave from SYD T1, and being a newly minted WP, I wanted to take my guest travelling with me to the F Lounge. I figure that I can use Premium Check-In desks at Counter D, but it's not really clear from the QF website what time those check-in desks open, and what time we can first access the F Lounge? Does anyone know?

Needless to say, with Qantas it depends if you're CL or merely WP or F. The CL confetti dispensed by QFA is a disgrace (just look at the soft corruption in the form of upgrades galore for our worthy pollies, recently published by Fairfax).

Check-in open policy is a nonsense and doubtless used to control flow in the FLounge (not security, which is their favourite catch-all invoked whenever they want to pull one over on you). For example, connect from another port into SYD and you could be there 10+ hours in theory but beginning in SYD and the limit is 3 hours prior (4 hours prior if destination is LHR - quite what difference that makes is unclear).

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Needless to say, with Qantas it depends if you're CL or merely WP or F. The CL confetti dispensed by QFA is a disgrace (just look at the soft corruption in the form of upgrades galore for our worthy pollies, recently published by Fairfax).

Check-in open policy is a nonsense and doubtless used to control flow in the FLounge (not security, which is their favourite catch-all invoked whenever they want to pull one over on you). For example, connect from another port into SYD and you could be there 10+ hours in theory but beginning in SYD and the limit is 3 hours prior (4 hours prior if destination is LHR - quite what difference that makes is unclear).

although the question is more likely... 'why would any F pax want to spend more than 3 hours there?' - F pax are called the day before, have their spa appointment booked and even a table reserved in the canteen. They can arrive 2 hours before, have a drink and a snack, their treatment, then make their way to priority boarding. Three hours is more than enough. I would expect QF to open a flight to check somoeone in however if an F pax arrived more than three hours before though.

 

[mannej]

Needless to say, with Qantas it depends if you're CL or merely WP or F. The CL confetti dispensed by QFA is a disgrace (just look at the soft corruption in the form of upgrades galore for our worthy pollies, recently published by Fairfax).

Check-in open policy is a nonsense and doubtless used to control flow in the FLounge (not security, which is their favourite catch-all invoked whenever they want to pull one over on you). For example, connect from another port into SYD and you could be there 10+ hours in theory but beginning in SYD and the limit is 3 hours prior (4 hours prior if destination is LHR - quite what difference that makes is unclear).

Is flow control necessarily a bad thing?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Is flow control necessarily a bad thing?

especially now that all golds are plats, and all silvers are golds following months of double SC promotions

 

[bodog]

especially now that all golds are plats, and all silvers are golds following months of double SC promotions

and very happy with it

After 18 years of loyalty to Qantas I don't think a double SC offer is undeserved - and it certainly got me to fly more and qualify for WP status for the first time after years of SG