Overseas Qantas Lounges and Australia plugs

[moa999]

Unfortunately Clipsal is now about as Australian as SAO and Vegemite - is fully owned by Schneider (German).

I suspect in many of the lounges that Qantas took over a shell of a building and wasn't able to change much in the way of powerpoints etc (eg. Bangkok where if I remember the powerpoints are in the wall of the window)

 

[Archphoto]

Would it be so difficult to replace? Surely they would have to do so if the original failed?

Personally, we pay enough for QC access, building or renovating new ones should, from a customer service point of view, be a consideration - they certainly aren't offering too much in the way of food and drink these days in a few lounges, the least they could do is offer plugs that help their guests out?

Regardless of whether they are now OS controlled, they seem to supply worldwide to *many* hotels and I recall seeing them fitted in a CX or JAL lounge or two. A nice little earner for the company and one that would at least see their AU employees employed for a while longer?

With regard to other lounges - not so difficult to offer this as a service to their guests either - excess is costing more and carry-on is getting less. Eventually they're going to start weighing it and the less I need to carry, the better.

 

[dajop]

Would it be so difficult to replace? Surely they would have to do so if the original failed?

Personally, we pay enough for QC access, building or renovating new ones should, from a customer service point of view, be a consideration - they certainly aren't offering too much in the way of food and drink these days in a few lounges, the least they could do is offer plugs that help their guests out?

I agree that it would be nice to have some universal plugs, many hotels and lounges seem to manage this. But in the meantime, they do offer plugs for loan. And if they don't have any left, most of the airports that QF operate in you can buy an adaptor for a few bucks anyway.

 

[samh004]

I agree...but then someone will argue, that CX should have Asian power sockets in the MEL CX Lounge or Emirates should have UAE type power sockets in their Int PER Lounge? Can go on and on???

I don’t see why, in the face of an actual standard, a universal plug socket with every other plug socket able to fit into it couldn’t be designed and installed all over the world. Seems so simple really. I suppose it’s not.