Toilets in international J

[justinbrett]

If you'd correctly read my post, I referred to one airline, not multiple countries.

It must annoy you that there are better airlines than QFi. Way better, including many from Asia.

I'm surprised you haven't started a Toilet Seat Occupancy Lower thread so you can continue your anti-QF agenda...

 

[Franky]

Often when that occurs, airlines announce it to passengers, either discreetly if in J or briefly over the tannoy if Y (especially re latter on smaller aircraft such as A320s/B738s.

You must be as old as I am, saying tannoy which I associate with the RAAF, whilst in the Navy, it was called the Ship’s Broadcast….

 

[jb747]

It must annoy you that there are better airlines than QFi. Way better, including many from Asia.

Perhaps you should quantify that. In the areas that I was interested in, they performed well. Perhaps in toilet management, not so much.

 

[justinbrett]

You must be as old as I am, saying tannoy which I associate with the RAAF, whilst in the Navy, it was called the Ship’s Broadcast….

It's still in use by some young people.

I actually did some research where the term came from a little while back - Tannoy is a British brand that made the PA systems.

 

[Franky]

It's still in use by some young people.

I actually did some research where the term came from a little while back - Tannoy is a British brand that made the PA systems.

Agree, and I think I can recall reading in some of my old Biggles books in the 50s that aircrew were called out over the Tannoy to scramble to their aircraft to repel another air attack during the Battle of Britain..

 

[Mrmaxwell]

My recent flights to and from LHR on 789 had use of the forward lav.

Yes the single lav for the entire J cabin - and it's the size of a coffin.

I've been spoilt flying some of the ME carriers which have toilets the size of studio apartments. QF need to improve their toilets for business class.

 

[DC3]

I actually did some research where the term came from a little while back - Tannoy is a British brand that made the PA systems.

Getting a bit OT, but Tannoy also made an artillery speaker communications system, used for orders from the Gun Position Command Post to each gun in the battery, and used by Australia into the 1970’s, if not beyond. A slightly upmarket version of that used in WWII, but very robust equipment. Something similar to this:

Artillery Loud Speaker Control Box

 

[justinbrett]

Yes the single lav for the entire J cabin - and it's the size of a coffin.

I've been spoilt flying some of the ME carriers which have toilets the size of studio apartments. QF need to improve their toilets for business class.

Now you're just making things up.

There's three toilets in J on a QF 789 - the other two are in between rows 8 and 10.

 

[Rangalad]

Now you're just making things up.

There's three toilets in J on a QF 789 - the other two are in between rows 8 and 10.

IMHO EK A380 and 777 toilets are more spacious than the QF 789 J toilets.

 

[Melburnian1]

You must be as old as I am, saying tannoy which I associate with the RAAF, whilst in the Navy, it was called the Ship’s Broadcast….

My recollection is people much older than me used that term (some frequently) so I learnt it and oddly it's stuck.

 

[Melburnian1]

I'm surprised you haven't started a Toilet Seat Occupancy Lower thread so you can continue your anti-QF agenda...

Given the call centre debacle and today's media furore about the QFd/QFi head honcho blaming passengers for delays at SYD (latter are too slow to get through security, allegedly - he 'walked back' these comments an hour or two ago), QFi/QFd seems to be doing a pretty good job of convincing people to patronise a competitor (if one's available).

 

[justinbrett]

Given the call centre debacle and today's media furore about the QFd/QFi head honcho blaming passengers for delays at SYD (latter are too slow to get through security, allegedly - he 'walked back' these comments an hour or two ago), QFi/QFd seems to be doing a pretty good job of convincing people to patronise a competitor (if one's available).

And it was most likely completely correct in those statements, though not politically correct.

I can tell you there's no end in my frustration when I'm behind people in the security line that wait until the last minute to act like they've never been on a plane before.

And I guess from the crowds there's plenty of people choosing to fly the QF group today. Not sure many of these people are reading your anti-QF threads that would sway their opinion.

 

[Scr77]

Now you're just making things up.

There's three toilets in J on a QF 789 - the other two are in between rows 8 and 10.

Disembarked QF93 a few hours ago. Yes there are 3 toilets and the forward toilet was in operation. However, every time i needed to go there was a queue. It became quite annoying.

 

[DC3]

I can tell you there's no end in my frustration when I'm behind people in the security line that wait until the last minute to act like they've never been on a plane before.

Don’t you just luv ‘em? Such performances in faffing around and achieving almost nothing.

 

[Melburnian1]

And it was most likely completely correct in those statements, though not politically correct.

I can tell you there's no end in my frustration when I'm behind people in the security line that wait until the last minute to act like they've never been on a plane before.

I agree what Mr Joyce said may well be correct, but he could have left any comments to the gent from SYD airport management so the latter would receive any flak from travellers, or sensationalism from media.

I also don't disagree with your frustration in queues but the median age of Australians is increasing. On leisure routes in particular there can be many aged 70 and over. Some won't have the mobility of younger people, although fumbling for items at the last minute when they ought have them ready doesn't help their cause.

Not many read your continual pro-QF (or defensive of QFi/QFd) comments either, because AFF is a specialist website whose reach doesn't extend to a high percentage of all air travellers. (It may have higher reach among frequent air passengers).

But we have to get back to the s--thouse discussion.

 

[Hvr]

I can tell you there's no end in my frustration when I'm behind people in the security line that wait until the last minute to act like they've never been on a plane before.

On my recent trip to HKT I travelled with a mate on his first ever international trip. He hadn't flown domestically for probably 30 years.

As we approached security I gave him a tray and told him to empty his pockets of 'everything. Absolutely everything. Your pockets must be empty'.

I went ahead of him, got straight through, and heard him set off the scanner. I just kept walking, as I told him later, once through you don't hang around.

He'd left coins in his pocket because he didn't know they would set off the scanner.

That is the type of person we're dealing with at security checkpoints.

 

[justinbrett]

I agree what Mr Joyce said may well be correct, but he could have left any comments to the gent from SYD airport management so the latter would receive any flak from travellers, or sensationalism from media.

I also don't disagree with your frustration in queues but the median age of Australians is increasing. On leisure routes in particular there can be many aged 70 and over. Some won't have the mobility of younger people, although fumbling for items at the last minute when they ought have them ready doesn't help their cause.

Not many read your continual pro-QF (or defensive of QFi/QFd) comments either, because AFF is a specialist website whose reach doesn't extend to a high percentage of all air travellers. (It may have higher reach among frequent air passengers).

But we have to get back to the s--thouse discussion.

You're the one making anti-QF threads in a QF forum. You know exactly what you're doing and you really shouldn't be surprised when you get asked to justify your slander (and yet you don't...)

I'm not making an ageist observation about security delays, as you imply. My complaint is equally directed at the 20 something as it is the middle aged couple.

This is an open forum, but if you sling mud around, expect some of it to land back on you.

 

[DC3]

… if you sling mud around, expect some of it to land back on you.

If there’s anything being flung around, it’s not coming from the International Business potty room is it?

 

[Mrmaxwell]

Now you're just making things up.

There's three toilets in J on a QF 789 - the other two are in between rows 8 and 10.

Which are shared with Premium Y on my recent return flight to LHR and always had a long queue...so in my mind there is only one J loo at the front of the main J cabin which again is no good if you have paid $10k+ each way for full flex J...and again the loo is tiny!

 

[justinbrett]

in my mind there is only one J loo at the front of the main J cabin

In my mind there's 37 toilets.

Perhaps we should just stick to facts.