SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

[boomy]

No A380 please...those business seats are terrible!

Agree, the 777 is my favourite for both F and J !

When flying solo I also prefer 777 but with my wife I’d definitely go for 380 both in F and J for the double bed. While the middle bulkhead seats in J can’t be pre-booked anymore without KF status we were lucky before to score them prior to departure and they are great IMO.

 

[mel-world]

No A380 please...those business seats are terrible!

Probably better than a seat in Y. FWP.

 

[bcworld]

When flying solo I also prefer 777 but with my wife I’d definitely go for 380 both in F and J for the double bed. While the middle bulkhead seats in J can’t be pre-booked anymore without KF status we were lucky before to score them prior to departure and they are great IMO.

My opinion of them is based on a journey in the double bed seats 96DF. Double bed or no double bed...it still feels like sitting or lying on a slab of concrete.

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Probably better than a seat in Y. FWP.

Kind of goes without saying. Everything discussed here is a FWP.

 

[muppet]

Thanks for that. No issues having the miles available. With regards to cancelling the backup booking, wouldn’t that also cancel the BNE-SIN sector as well since it would be on the same itinerary? Would not want this to happen. Apologies if I wasn’t clear that it will be an advantage award all on the one booking.

Oh I see. That complicates things. Yes you will have to call if you want to keep part of the itinerary and add in a cleared waitlisted sector.
May be possible or you may get the “new sector cannot be combined with an existing booking” issue.
Good luck.

 

[LinaLee]

Enjoyed the krug lots on today’s flight SQ318

 

[LinaLee]

Politely asking ….. if anyone can help make a pair for him as they ran out on today’s flight. Lots kids onboard todays flight.

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[LinaLee]

SQ318 - 27 Dec. This for dinner service. Not a fan of this version of the lobster. Was a bit overcooked. The sample bowl laksa was good. The coconut panna cotta was jiggly enough.

 

[MARTINE]

Politely asking ….. if anyone can help make a pair for him as they ran out on today’s flight. Lots kids onboard todays flight.

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Try Tinder

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Politely asking ….. if anyone can help make a pair for him as they ran out on today’s flight. Lots kids onboard todays flight.

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Who else would answer your cry for help?

 

[LinaLee]

Who else would answer your cry for help?

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Yes please. Thank you very much @Cruiser Elite .Mrs Auguste is found.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Should have asked this well before now… my bad.

First SQ J long haul tonight. Are the teddy bears F only?

Is there a secret code?

Asking for Miss H, promise!

 

[NoName]

I’m no regular but on the flights I have been on I’ve just asked and have been lucky enough to get one each time. Didn’t matter if it was J or F.

 

[Aeolus]

I’m no regular but on the flights I have been on I’ve just asked and have been lucky enough to get one each time. Didn’t matter if it was J or F.

Damn! Didn’t know they give to J pax too. Do they carry the bears on A350 where there is no F?

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Yes they are on all flts but in limited numbers - feel free to ask nicely but never any guarantees

 

[Cruiser Elite]

OMG what I would give to get possession of this:



I will never forget the excitement of the first time I scaled that spiral staircase to get to J Cabin

 

[Austman]

At Christmas time, the model(s) were decorated. This is my photo:

 

[muppet]

Interesting experience this week regarding the flexibility of Krisflyer Advantage Awards that I thought is worthwhile sharing.

I had planned travel from HKG - SIN - SYD and booked it as a First Advantage Award.

Due to change in plans, I no longer intended to use the HKG - SIN sector but wanted to keep the SIN - SYD in First sector. Thinking an Advantage award, no biggie - just call, pay the fee and be done with it. But no, I could not cancel the first leg only. The whole ticket would be cancelled. I called 3 more times trying HUACA method and got the same response.

However, crazily while I couldn’t cancel the first leg only, I could completly change the booking and keep the second sector. So that’s what I did, changed to fly from PEN-SIN instead and was able to keep my SIN-SYD sector in First.

This is Jan holiday period, so losing the First sector back home would have meant buying a last minute fare and definitely not in First class so i wanted to save it at all costs.

 

[RAM]

Despite the best of intentions, with a swag of Krisflyer points expiring as of 31.12.23 - last night at 9.40pm the redemption dance began. Ideal outcome would have been SYD CDG J return in mid Oct to early Nov.

Relying on memory is not as reliable as historically unfortunately. We needed more points than we had expiring for 2 x J returns. Found several date pairs that had both the lower cost award tickets available. So just needed a few more points to be transferred across.

Logged onto VFF at about 9.55pm and transferred the minimum number of VFF points required (to the nearest thousand) and the obligatory confirmation message appeared after a 50 second seeming processing freeze (nothing being downloaded from internet/buffering). Blood pressure rose accordingly and then the confirmation message appeared - '... take between 24 to 48 hours to appear'.

The optimist in me thought lovingly of all the posts up thread about transfer happening within minutes, and ignorred the pessimist pointing out that there may well be a few thousand (or more) other people trying to do redemptions before 31.12.23 disappeared.

By 10.25 the points had arrived, and so seemingly had many more people trying to process point saving redemptions. 4 or 5 times the redemption process failed and came up with a 'site maintenance' message and 'contact your local office during business hours'. The SIA system was much slower than the pre-10pm experience.

Just after 11pm success, but with a bitter twist. A message appeared at the top of the screen reminding us that we could have one free stopover. Of course the boss said we should on the way across.

Next attempt, failure.

Next attempt, using a previous search link instead of inputting the data again & it worked. Added the stopover, got a better flight into CDG as a result and everything processed perfectly.

11.25pm email confirmation arrived.

All of a sudden 2024 is looking much better than it had been...

 

[robbo135]

Hi all,

Do Star Alliance Golds (flying in Y) check in at the business class or premium economy counters at SYD?

 

[SYD]

Hi all,

Do Star Alliance Golds (flying in Y) check in at the business class or premium economy counters at SYD?

A*G get biz checkin with all alliance airlines.