Qantas to Close First Class Lounge in Singapore

[zachary.august]

I agree with the other posters on here. No one can trust what Qantas releases now.

 

[coolumbla]

My experience of emirates lounge in Sin is thats its not much different to the CX one
food was ordinary but then i always am connecting at midnight!

 

[Platinum A332]

[SARCASM]
Dear Red Roo and Qantas Management,

I just wanted to congratulate you on ceasing plans to refurbish your First Class lounge in Singapore, and deciding to close it instead. This congratulations is irrespective of the committment to proceed with the lounge refurbishments as recently as last week.

A suggestion - in line with this train of thought, given that you no longer have First Class flights into Bangkok, Brisbane or Auckland, perhaps you can close the First Class lounges there too. May I also suggest that in order to standardise the product across Asia, that you cease operating the Airbus A380 into Hong Kong, and operate a 3-class Boeing 747 instead. This way, the First Class lounge in Hong Kong can also be closed - most of the British Airways customers use the inferior Cathay Pacific lounges anyway.

I am adamant that the Platinum, Platinum One and Chairmans Lounge Frequent Flyers will not care at all, and it will save the airline lots of money by operating one lounge instead of two.

Best Regards,


Platinum A332
[/SARCASM]

 

[Alanslegal]

[SARCASM]
Dear Red Roo and Qantas Management,

I just wanted to congratulate you on ceasing plans to refurbish your First Class lounge in Singapore, and deciding to close it instead. This congratulations is irrespective of the committment to proceed with the lounge refurbishments as recently as last week.

Be fair on them

Sometimes renovating can improve the asset cost when it comes to offloading/selling that newly (or partly) renovated FC Lounge.

Just like our homes, sometimes spending some money and making it look all new prior to a sale, can increase the sale price

 

[Simo]

The last time I was in the Flounge SIN it was no better than regional QP.

 

[Oneworldplus2]

Was the SIN flounge substantially different from the jlounge?.

Not really.

 

[ReLoad]

I'm surprised that people are surprised by this.
Sure its sucks, but honestly we never really had a true "F" lounge there anyway, it was ordinary at best.

The real thing we should be concentrating on is what is the new F lounge (its replacement for through pax) in DXB going to be like? Chronic overcrowding?

To me when I do the maths on this on one had we are adding a new F lounge (DXB) which is unknown in quality/crowding whilst taking away the F Lounge in SIN which was quite frankly a bit of a joke.

 

[amaroo]

Obvious.......here's one I prepared back on the 6th Sept -

#449

 

[amaroo]

HKG I understand as they fly the A380 to HKG which has F. I wonder how BA F pax will cope without an F lounge?

How many days a week is the A380 service to HKG?

Can't see the already limited F service will hang around very long on this route.

 

[Timba-Jet]

Like many others here, completely WTF reaction. How can you say on one hand QF will be able to provide better service and focus on Asian/SIN, then pull the plug on renovations that are in progress, and was part of a big PR hype earlier this year.

The only thing that make this bearable for WPs is the F lounge was nothing special.

On the bright side at least we have confirmation bye bye F to SIN.... Hopefully it's not bye bye red roo.

 

[lovestotravel]

Like many others here, completely WTF reaction.

On the bright side at least we have confirmation bye bye F to SIN.... Hopefully it's not bye bye red roo.

Not sure how anyone can be surprised at this

Umm it's bye bye Red Roo to SIN, the no new F lounge just confirms it 100%

 

[YQY]

Hands up who didn't see this coming?

i predicted this scenario --> http://www.australianfrequentflyer....-emirates-tie-up-code-39712-9.html#post676068

 

[Danger]

I've just reviewed the press conference from 6 September. David Flynn from Australian Business Traveller questioned specifically on this.

[10.43 EST]

Flynn: So you'll still be going ahead with the planned upgrade of lounges in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Joyce: Yes. We're committed- We said Asia's a very important market for us and we believe that these premium lounges are a key part of making our business profitable in the future. It's one of the four pillars that we've announced previously and those investments in Hong Kong, in Singapore and in LA will continue.​

And has already been pointed out:

A year is a long time in Politics, even longer in the airline industry, just over a year ago QF were going to build a better Qantas with four pillars:

2.Strengthen Asia (Invest in a new Asian premium airline.)
3.Deepen and broaden alliances with LAN and BA, including strengthening the JSA!

I hope the other pillars are still going OK:

1. Customer Excellence
4. Ongoing Business Improvement

. . .

What do we believe any more?

 

[The Rok]

Have Qantas confirmed they are to close the SIN F Lounge or is this just a report that cites "sources"

 

[Birdblack]

Would never happen but it they should have closed the business lounge and converted the new FCL into a fancy QF lounge.

 

[GDV 747-24/7]

Have Qantas confirmed they are to close the SIN F Lounge or is this just a report that cites "sources"

Per the "Thread Information" banner below, there are currently two users viewing this thread at the moment - me and Red Roo!

Red Roo - would you be able to confirm whether this SIN Flounge story is true as, if it isn't, then a clarification could stop this thread from spiralling out of control.

 

[Limewood]

Is this lounge closure not a bit premature - if true, before Govt. approval is given with new partner?

 

[oz_mark]

By 'closing', perhaps it is really just a change of name, and will still be under the oneworld umbrella......

(thus still providing the premium experience)

 

[JohnPhelan]

Now ausbt.com.au is running a story that BA is going to take over the SIN F Lounge. So BA would operate the F Lounge, and QF would operate the J Lounge.

Makes sense.

British Airways to open new first class lounge at Singapore - Flights | hotels | frequent flyer | business class - Australian Business Traveller

 

[Bundy Bear]

I wonder if the BA lounge will then just open for the BA flights and the QF lounge will be open a bit more often with all those Jetstar flights.

Maybe Qantas didn't want all the Jetstar passengers using the Singapore First Class Lounge.

I can see where those 787s are going, Singapore; then they can operate the SIN-PER; SIN-ADL; SIN-MEL, SIN-BNE,

I would bet SIN-SYD will stay with Qantas.