Qantas International - Check In

[Sprucegoose]

Amen to that. Although I have found it a challenge relaxing in CBR QC on a thursday or friday afternoon. Hard enough finding a place to stand, let alone sit

cheers skip

Agree skip but the business lounge is the best of their type in australia. Have you been there? Never over crowded.

Cheers. spruce

 

[oz_mark]

I was referring to the poster assuming that bags are not offloaded when the pax belonging to them are, not the above instance which I'm not disputing.

I have read and reread the posters comments, and I don't see this assumption at all. More a claim it is annoying having to wait for bags to be offloaded.

 

[pn01]

That's a huge assumption to make not to mention an extremely irresponsible comment to make on a public forum when you have no facts to back it up with. What airline/aircraft type/seat number were you sitting in?

How do you know if these 'fail to board' passengers even have checked in luggage?

Just because pax don't appear to have their bags offloaded, doesn't mean they aren't.

It would depend what aircraft type you are travelling on as to whether or not you see the bags being onloaded or offloaded in the first place.

If you're on a 737 on the left hand side you won't see anything as you'll most likely have an aerobridge attached to the front left door and rear stairs to the back left for cleaners so you won't see bags being loaded of offloaded on the right hand side of the aircraft. Even if you're on the right hand side of the plane, if you're sitting forward to won't be able to see bags being loaded/unloaded into the rear cargo hold and vv. :idea:

I find people making sweeping statements about things they are not qualified to comment about evening more annoying than being late to checkin or a fail to board pax. :evil:

Not sure what exactly you're annoyed about but I was saying that sometimes when passengers do not appear the delay is even longer when their baggage is offboarded - obviously in such a case they must have luggage otherwise there would be nothing to offboard.

Most often when people are late they eventually appear and the flight leaves.

Sometimes they don't appear and nothing else is announced and the flight leaves - possibly on these occasions they have no checked in luggage or the captain has chosen not to give a more detailed update.

However, on some occasions they have not appeared and to keep the passengers in the loop the captain explains the process of offboarding their luggage.

I never said in my original post that every time someone is late they have luggage offboarded. I gave two particular examples:

1. When people who are in the departure lounge haven't appeared (this is based on what the crew were saying the the boarded passengers - I assume they weren't making up the fact that the passengers were in the departure area)

2. When the passengers don't appear and then their luggage is offloaded (based on what the captain has said in these cases - again I assume the captain wasn't making up his info)


If you want to make assumptions that I was making sweeping statements about every passenger who is late to a flight that is up to you, but you're wrong if you think that's what I was saying!

I would have expected someone with as many posts as you to check their facts before flaming someone new based on your own assumptions!

 

[PineappleSkip]

I assume they weren't making up the fact that the passengers were in the departure area

... at least they hoped the passengers were in the departure area; unfortunately they have the habit of wandering off to all sorts of implausible places .... or maybe there are airlines which tag their passengers on check in so they can locate them when needed

Cheers skip

Agree skip but the business lounge is the best of their type in australia. Have you been there? Never over crowded.

Haven't been there since February Spruce, how long has it been around?

cheers skip

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Thousand apologies from a blonde dyslexic.....

Not sure what exactly you're annoyed about but I was saying that sometimes when passengers do not appear the delay is even longer when their baggage is offboarded - obviously in such a case they must have luggage otherwise there would be nothing to offboard.

Most often when people are late they eventually appear and the flight leaves.

Sometimes they don't appear and nothing else is announced and the flight leaves - possibly on these occasions they have no checked in luggage or the captain has chosen not to give a more detailed update.

However, on some occasions they have not appeared and to keep the passengers in the loop the captain explains the process of offboarding their luggage.

I never said in my original post that every time someone is late they have luggage offboarded. I gave two particular examples:

1. When people who are in the departure lounge haven't appeared (this is based on what the crew were saying the the boarded passengers - I assume they weren't making up the fact that the passengers were in the departure area)

2. When the passengers don't appear and then their luggage is offloaded (based on what the captain has said in these cases - again I assume the captain wasn't making up his info)


If you want to make assumptions that I was making sweeping statements about every passenger who is late to a flight that is up to you, but you're wrong if you think that's what I was saying!

I would have expected someone with as many posts as you to check their facts before flaming someone new based on your own assumptions!

Man, have I been barking up the wrong tree here! Seems I was adding two and two toegther and coming up with five. Despite reading the OP twice I thought the inference was that sometimes airlines appear to not be offlaod pax luggage when pax are. For that I sincerely apologise & promise not to go anywhere near a computer again when tired.

 

[pn01]

Re: Thousand apologies from a blonde dyslexic.....

Man, have I been barking up the wrong tree here! Seems I was adding two and two toegther and coming up with five. Despite reading the OP twice I thought the inference was that sometimes airlines appear to not be offlaod pax luggage when pax are. For that I sincerely apologise & promise not to go anywhere near a computer again when tired.

No worries. We've all been there and I quite often need to carry a shoe horn around to remove my feet from my mouth!!

 

[Sprucegoose]

Haven't been there since February Spruce, how long has it been around?

cheers skip

I think around a year now. After security at the top of the escalator, turn right up a sloping walkway.

Cheers SPRUCE

 

[PineappleSkip]

I think around a year now. After security at the top of the escalator, turn right up a sloping walkway.

Cheers SPRUCE

Next time I go there I will make sure I'm in the right class, and when I get to the top of the escalator I will need to have my eyes open:shock:

Cheers skip

 

[Ewing]

I think around a year now. After security at the top of the escalator, turn right up a sloping walkway.

Actually, it's closer to 2 years. I first remember going in there in late 2008

I'm looking forward to the new terminal in CBR anyway - I hope that the move this month goes ahead. I'm not sure what the business lounge will be like, but at the Qantas travel show recently they mentioned that the new QP is just slightly smaller than Sydney.