Singapore QF/BA lounge new changes

[Flying mermaid]

...or indeed if the taxpayer is paying.....

I've slapped my fingers a few times to stop myself making a similar dig, or indeed a few other ones about efficient work environments.

Note : disclaimer. . I fly first paid for out of my own pocket. I have never had a DSC (although not averse to domestic JASAs ). I do not resent WPs in F lounges even when they fly economy.

 

[medhead]

Again I see the DXB lounge access rules being repeatedly raised. Simply put this thread and the temporary lounge access rules in SIN have no apparent relevance to lounge access rules under the QF/EK tie up. Can the doom brigade/ qantas bashers please refrain from dragging the thread off topic.

 

[Ansett]

Again I see the DXB lounge access rules being repeatedly raised. Simply put this thread and the temporary lounge access rules in SIN have no apparent relevance to lounge access rules under the QF/EK tie up. Can the doom brigade/ qantas bashers please refrain from dragging the thread off topic.

With all respect it is more about QF and its inabilty to organise anything in Singapore that is constant and consistent

More so is the failure of QF to reassure customers on this forum that WP will not be watered down,

No News they say is good news however no news from QF is normally a sign of bad news.

95% of my flying has been with QF with 80% of my staus credits being earned with personal spend, I do appreciate what QF has done to improve and have congragulated them on many occasions.

Now how did these changes occur I wonder?

through the foresight and goodness of Qantas?

VIA the feedback provided through this and other forums?

If we all stopped discussing concerns would QF move forward or backward?

 

[medhead]

With all respect it is more about QF and its inabilty to organise anything in Singapore that is constant and consistent

Which is exactly my point. Yet a number of posts have been about lounge access in DXB in the future. IMO irrelevant and off topic, this thread is about temporary arrangements in SIN for the next 2.5 months.

 

[markis10]

Often lounge refresh works result in a voucher to purchase food/ drinks in the airport, given the Singapore lounge changes are providing alternative lounge offerings, I don't have any issue with the changes, except that my Skyview haven away from the QP crowd has gone :evil:.

I won't be in a hurry to get to the airport in a few months time armed with the facts as posted here, which is probably a good thing, the terrible departure times for QF to come home often mean I am not in the mood to soak up the atmosphere and enjoy the fine dining a good F lounge "might" have provided anyway, ECP is a better alternative just down the road.

 

[RWJ777]

What about access to CX Skyview for WPs?

Lounge Admittance, International Airports - Cathay Pacific

I am in Changi twice in March (flying BA Y+) and as a WP have rather vested interest in these changes too!

 

[JohnK]

What about access to CX Skyview for WPs?

I have never had an issue and according to your link Oneworld Emerald has access to First Class Lounge and Business Class lounge departing with Oneworld carrier. Sometimes they ask for a lounge invitation but you can easily get around that request.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Often lounge refresh works result in a voucher to purchase food/ drinks in the airport, given the Singapore lounge changes are providing alternative lounge offerings, I don't have any issue with the changes, except that my Skyview haven away from the QP crowd has gone :evil:.

I won't be in a hurry to get to the airport in a few months time armed with the facts as posted here, which is probably a good thing, the terrible departure times for QF to come home often mean I am not in the mood to soak up the atmosphere and enjoy the fine dining a good F lounge "might" have provided anyway, ECP is a better alternative just down the road.

more time for chili crab and a gut full of tiger at the quay then grab a cab

 

[JohnPhelan]

What about access to CX Skyview for WPs?

Lounge Admittance, International Airports - Cathay Pacific

I am in Changi twice in March (flying BA Y+) and as a WP have rather vested interest in these changes too!

Skyview access to a oneworld Emerald has not changed. The only thing that has changed relates to where QF pax can place themselves for the next couple of months while the renovations take place in the QF lounge. No long-term consequences, and certainly nothing whatsoever to do with access to the EK lounges in DXB.

 

[Danger]

Skyview access to a oneworld Emerald has not changed. The only thing that has changed relates to where QF pax can place themselves for the next couple of months while the renovations take place in the QF lounge. No long-term consequences, and certainly nothing whatsoever to do with access to the EK lounges in DXB.

Not the only thing. There's also the significant change in the previously committed and recommitted to lounge refurbishments in Singapore.

 

[RWJ777]

Skyview access to a oneworld Emerald has not changed. The only thing that has changed relates to where QF pax can place themselves for the next couple of months while the renovations take place in the QF lounge. No long-term consequences, and certainly nothing whatsoever to do with access to the EK lounges in DXB.

Could not eligible QF pax ( ie WPs) avail themselves of the CX F lounge if the temporary J/WP lounge does not excite?

 

[serfty]

Cathay Pacific use the Skyview lounge at SIN.

 

[JohnK]

Could not eligible QF pax ( ie WPs) avail themselves of the CX F lounge if the temporary J/WP lounge does not excite?

There is no CX F Lounge in SIN. There is the Skyview Lounge which is more than adequate and everytime I am there appears to have more hot food options than the QF/BA Lounges.

 

[Austman]

Could not eligible QF pax ( ie WPs) avail themselves of the CX F lounge if the temporary J/WP lounge does not excite?

And any QF pax with a F or J boarding pass for that matter have access to Skyview. But the Skyview staff tend to whinge when you do this. "You should use the Qantas lounges" is their initial comment, but then they do (reluctantly) let you in.

 

[Awesom Andy]

But the Skyview staff tend to whinge when you do this. "You should use the Qantas lounges" is their initial comment, but then they do (reluctantly) let you in.

But now you can tell them you can't actually get into the Qantas lounge with a J or F ticket.

 

[jetlagger]

The 'place" QF/BA SATS lounge excuse thing in SIN is simply a joke.
Tonight it is/was wall to wall with noisy guests- people with feet & shoes on chairs, rubbish food offerings & warm beer..
Not without mentioning random people enjoying loud conversations on mobiles & general unenjoyable lounge ambience.
I shall seek some recluse in the bar downstairs..

 

[sometimeflyer]

But now you can tell them you can't actually get into the Qantas lounge with a J or F ticket.

They will let you in to the QF lounge on an F ticket (or at least they were prepared to let my wife and me in - I'm SG, she's NB).

 

[Awesom Andy]

They will let you in to the QF lounge on an F ticket (or at least they were prepared to let my wife and me in - I'm SG, she's NB).

Good to hear that they didn't try to send you to the EK lounge. Not that there are any problems with the EK lounge, but it would be a downright embarrassment for an airline to send its own pax away from its own lounge into a different airline's lounge - I would suspect most of those pax would move on and never come back.

 

[ajw373]

And any QF pax with a F or J boarding pass for that matter have access to Skyview. But the Skyview staff tend to whinge when you do this. "You should use the Qantas lounges" is their initial comment, but then they do (reluctantly) let you in.

I would have thought being a 3rd party lounge, even if used by CX that OneWorld rules would not apply, so they would be well within their rights to turn Qantas pax away. (excluding the temp access at the moment of course)

 

[markis10]

I would have thought being a 3rd party lounge, even if used by CX that OneWorld rules would not apply, so they would be well within their rights to turn Qantas pax away. (excluding the temp access at the moment of course)

Skyview is not a third party lounge unlike the JAL one. I have never had any issues with access. Skyview is jointly managed by CIAS and CX, which is why priority pass members have access.