SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

[Cruiser Elite]

1. I have zero status but fortunate enough to fly regularly pointy end tks tp pts
2. Yes Mgmt do indeed have discretion to grant access - I have been granted access to TPR by Mgmt on morn of a SIN-NKG Scoot flt dep T2 after arr previous day in F from MEL - Scoot J pax not eligible for SKL Lounge access
3. No I do not always get nor do I expect ‘special treatment’ - some times I do ask - sometimes I don’t
4. Are there many pax with mixed class rdpts with F/R + J combo who have paid for a stopover between first F/R sector and second J sector who know of or even consider eligibility of TPR access prior to J sector? Not a huge number I would suspect.
5. Still more water to go under bridge on this matter

 

[travelnutjohn]

Just to get access to the SQ First class lounge (not TPR) requires you to have Solitaire PPS status. Gaining Solitaire PPS requires a spend of SGD250,000 (250K) in first or business class on SQ or MI within 5 consecutive years. To maintain Solitaire you have to spend SGD50,000 per year in first or business class. So it's not an easy benchmark.

Would there be pax without status in F - absolutely. Not least on the basis that trying to get Solitaire is not that easy. Krisflyer miles on the otherhand are fairly easy to come by and so are first and business class awards. And the awards are cheap by comparison to other airlines. Mixed class awards are also common, simply because SQ doesn't offer first on many intra-Asia flights. Equally stopovers are promoted. So the combination of mixed class and stopover, with no status, would be common.

SQ looks after their F pax well. The arrivals benefit for TPR is unpublished but is consistently applied. No exceptions. So staff are well aware of the rules - even the 'unofficial' ones. It's therefore unlikely they've been incorrectly applying the rules all this time. But stranger things have happened so maybe CE's enquiry will prompt a correction, if this is the case.

CE is a very frequent traveller and well known to the staff, I believe his entry to the lounge was on the basis that lounge staff thought he was a Solitaire. (I can't recall if it was the F lounge or TPR though? I thought the former?)

Jesus thats a high level of spend.!
Now i feel special being able to access tpr

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Jesus thats a high level of spend.!
Now i feel special being able to access tpr

And that spend only gets you into the F section of the Silver Kris lounge, not TPR. While TPR is 'strictly' for SQ F (which includes suites), I'm guessing there must be other circumstances that would allow access to TPR based on some sort of status or spend, like BA's Concorde pass or QF's Chairman's status.

 

[travelnutjohn]

And that spend only gets you into the F section of the Silver Kris lounge, not TPR. While TPR is 'strictly' for SQ F (which includes suites), I'm guessing there must be other circumstances that would allow access to TPR based on some sort of status or spend, like BA's Concorde pass or QF's Chairman's status.

Next time I'm there, I'm going to walk around like a I own the damn entire airport

 

[whughes3]

Just to get access to the SQ First class lounge (not TPR) requires you to have Solitaire PPS status. Gaining Solitaire PPS requires a spend of SGD250,000 (250K) in first or business class on SQ or MI within 5 consecutive years. To maintain Solitaire you have to spend SGD50,000 per year in first or business class. So it's not an easy benchmark.

No longer the case: 50K a year is all you need to earn in the first place. This was changed some years ago.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

No longer the case: 50K a year is all you need to earn in the first place. This was changed some years ago.

Thanks. I must have been looking at a cached page

 

[Cruiser Elite]

hughsey is actually PPS but cannot access SKL F - they removed that benefit did they not hughsey? We actually shared a flt MEL-SIN back before XMAS 2018 - I was in F and hughsey in J - I guested hughsey into SKL F and we spent a bit of time in there together - kinda weird how someone with ZERO status can guest a PPS Member into F Lounge.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

PPS gets business access (SGD25k in first 12 months, F or J). Solitaire PPS gets F access (not TPR) (SGD50k in 12 months, F or J).

 

[travelnutjohn]

how about other programs with J and F lounge? if there is a pattern with them, you could logically apply it to SQs case as a guide,
obviously just using what others do as a guide

 

[whughes3]

hughsey is actually PPS but cannot access SKL F - they removed that benefit did they not hughsey? We actually shared a flt MEL-SIN back before XMAS 2018 - I was in F and hughsey in J - I guested hughsey into SKL F and we spent a bit of time in there together - kinda weird how someone with ZERO status can guest a PPS Member into F Lounge.

Yeah, would be nice if they reinstated the F lounge/checkin for PPS, given the dwindling numbers of actual F seats and the fact that F lounges seem to be ghost towns whenever I get into them! There can't be all that many PPS's; since I have been PPS I have never once failed to get seat 11A or 11K, and as often as not there is at least one empty seat in row 11.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Can someone please enlighten as to meal sequence 308 SIN-LHR? Surely 09:00 SIN dep would mean first meal lunch and not brunch?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Can someone please enlighten as to meal sequence 308 SIN-LHR? Surely 09:00 SIN dep would mean first meal lunch and not brunch?

Should be first meal breakfast, second meal lunch.

 

[andy2015]

Can someone please enlighten as to meal sequence 308 SIN-LHR? Surely 09:00 SIN dep would mean first meal lunch and not brunch?

SQ 308 Suites (SIN-LHR) – a rather underwhelming Suites experience

This is my 5th Suites flight in 6 years, the first 2 being regional (SQ866 and SQ802) followed by 2 long hauls (both SQ26 in 2015 and 2017) and now SQ308.

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Looks like first meal is breakfast/brunch.

 

[andy2015]

Flying SQ 306 SIN-LHR (01:10 dep) in a few weeks. Apparently a supper service flight. Didn't realize they pulled that on SIN-EU flights .

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Yes. But upgraded from the supper/sleeper services you get on the short AU flights. More courses etc but no caviar though.

 

[travelnutjohn]

So it looks like if you are an melbournite, you can experience the best in that a380 AND caviar service becasue the only 380 is the 00:05 departure

 

[PDog]

So it looks like if you are an melbournite, you can experience the best in that a380 AND caviar service becasue the only 380 is the 00:05 departure

Sorry, did you mean to say you *can’t* experience the caviar on the a380 from Melbourne as it leaves at 00.05?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

So it looks like if you are an melbournite, you can experience the best in that a380 AND caviar service becasue the only 380 is the 00:05 departure

Let's put this into perspective... the 'x factor' with SQ is the crew. It wouldn't really matter if there was no service on a flight... they'd manage to make it special. The next remarkable thing on the list is the seat. The SQ suites are prolly industry leading, matched only by Etihad F suites. Food on the other hand... SQ has never been renowned for that. I mean it's ok, sometimes good, but it's not in the same league as Air France, Swiss, Lufthansa. So yeah, the non lunch and dinner flights might lack the caviar, but that's the only thing. And the lack of that shouldn't really be an impact on the overall experience... because the food is probably the least of the on board factors that goes into making SQ famous.

 

[travelnutjohn]

Sorry, did you mean to say you *can’t* experience the caviar on the a380 from Melbourne as it leaves at 00.05?

Oops, I'm talking garbage today..

Yeah you can't experience new suites from Melbourne.
The next best is old suites (Yes some say old suites is better, but just for arguments sake)
And the only 380 is the 00:05 flight which means no caviar and a overnight flight

Let's hope this changes over this year or 2020

 

[Cruiser Elite]

R or F no biggie on 7hr daytime flt - whilst I have had dozens of flts on 380 on 218 it is an absolute waste - daytime flts only for me now going forward which invariably means o/n in SIN en route PVG/PEK.

I fully understand every one wants to try new R - and I encourage that - but IMHO it is just not that good so no biggie if you don’t get it - go for it if you can get it at Saver rates but at Advantage rates a different ball game - it would be a rare occasion I would pay Advantage rates for new R.