Qatar Airways has a new airport lounge at Singapore Changi, open for British Airways flights

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• Harry T says:

  31 Jan31 January 14:51

  @BJ
  I may or may not be in the same hospital as the coronavirus right now…

  • BJ says:

    31 Jan31 January 15:10

    That was my first thought when I read that they were taken to Newcastle. I’m not a million mm away from the relevant place at the WG in Edinburgh if it comes to that. Be professional, be diligent.

    • Yorkieflyer says:

      31 Jan31 January 16:33

      I’m five minutes walk from the Staycity hotel in York where they were staying, the co op next door has my paypoint custom!

    • Harry T says:

      31 Jan31 January 17:11

      @BJ
      Luckily I’m not going to be anywhere near the coronavirus patients. The Infectious Diseases team at the RVI are excellent – I trained under some of them briefly at med school.

    • Jill (Kinkell) says:

      31 Jan31 January 17:17

      I’m just glad I don’t work in respiratory / intensive care any more.

• Harry T says:

  31 Jan31 January 17:28

  Another OT:
  I’ve not flown EasyJet before. Flying with them to Milan Malpensa in May, hand baggage only (cheap as chips).

  Is it worth paying the extra £20 per person for each leg to get the extra legroom seats with two cabin bags and priority boarding? Just wondering it makes the entire experience more tolerable. I’ve flown Ryanair before and detested it. Most of the time I fly flag carrier economy. Of relevance I’m 6’1”.

  • Harry T says:

    31 Jan31 January 17:29

    Should say I’m flying from Edinburgh.

    • Shoestring says:

      31 Jan31 January 17:44

      if you hated Ryanair so much, then yes, fork out the £20 x4

      I find both airlines perfectly OK in terms of price/ quality & I’m 6’2″, doesn’t bother me on a short journey as the tickets can be so cheap and, definitely from Bristol, convenient plus it’s about expectations

    • BJ says:

      31 Jan31 January 18:45

      That was my first ever trip with Easyjet too, about two years ago. Only paid for seat selection, nothing else, but we always travel HBO anyway. I like them better than BA based on my four flights to date. Only downside was no airbridges on any of our flights. Boarding in CPH always a shambles but other airports may be fine.

      • Chas says:

        31 Jan31 January 19:56

        I actually found boarding at CPH last year to be without incident. Although perhaps I’d had a few too many in the PP lounge beforehand to remember (funnily enough the staff in the PP lounge were clearly not used to having Easyjet customers there, as they looked at my boarding pass and asked me where LTN was….).

        And I find EasyJet way better than Ryanair in general, but for legroom it’s much of a muchness as far as I’m concerned (although I’m not as tall as Harry T).

        • BJ says:

          31 Jan31 January 20:47

          I think our experiences were the result of problems at the gates caused by Ryanair despite travelling Easyjet.

    • Harry T says:

      31 Jan31 January 20:53

      Thanks everyone for the advice. Will probably pay for seat allocation because I think a randomly alloctaed middle seat would be woeful.

• Russ says:

  31 Jan31 January 20:17

  Anyone one got any ideas regarding fees and exchange rate losses for canx China flights which are being refunded? Insured loss or man up moment.

• Drew Peacock says:

  31 Jan31 January 20:18

  Why should he? More people died worldwide putting socks on in 2019 than from the Coronovirus to date in 2020?!

  Harry & Meaghan have now moved so what else sells papers? 😷

• Shoestring says:

  31 Jan31 January 21:06

  O/T L&G over 50s life ins: got the request to choose our £100 giftcards today, that was after only 2-3 weeks of signing up/ 1st payment a day ago, gone for £100 Amazon gcs payable in 6 months

  it’s direct application if anybody interested, £5-6/ month for 6 months

  • BJ says:

    31 Jan31 January 21:11

    Good to hear, hopefully I’ll get mine next week. Also hoping we don’t need to wait 6 months for the giftcard but given what’s going on paying the policy for 6 months might not be a bad idea.

    • Shoestring says:

      31 Jan31 January 21:17

      I’m using my 65% Amazon discount to get double whammy cheap Melia points (for hotel rooms) next Black Friday when the 50% discount comes round again

      • BJ says:

        31 Jan31 January 21:32

        Might do the same as I’ve stashed quite a bit with the various opportunities. Latest is a £12 off £90 MOC from Tesco.

        Btw, @Cat just coined a new phrase you want to see 🙂

        • Cat says:

          31 Jan31 January 22:50

          😂🤣

• Sloth says:

  31 Jan31 January 22:39

  Gatwick South My Lounge…what is the breakfast like? Will be there with my dragon pass 🙂 or am I better going to the grain store with my lounge club? Will be early tomorrow so assuming I wouldn’t have an issue getting into my lounge but more concerned with having a decent breakfast

• Peter Taysum says:

  1 Feb1 February 04:21

  I’m confused. The first paragraph (Singapore lounge) says if you’re First or Gold use the new First lounge; but Silver and Gold can’t access the Business lounge… Surely Gold can’t access First lounge either?!?

  Peter 😊

  I’m often confused mind 🤣

  • Bagoly says:

    1 Feb1 February 16:47

    Qantas and Qatar both have two syllables starting with Qa, with a t and another a.
    So I can see how they could be confusing to those not familiar with them.
    But they are different airlines, and may apply different rules.

• Robert says:

  2 Feb2 February 07:17

  Something missing from your article is the secret BA First Lounge at SIN worth giving a try.
  Can’t compare it to the newer lounges your article highlights, but if you like James Bond style stuff, incredible service and a very private lounge then I’d say it’s comparable. I guess not many people know about since it didn’t make the article.

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