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

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• Craig says:

  31 Jan31 January 04:49

  That’s timely, I shall be there in just over a week flying J with BA.

• Phillip says:

  31 Jan31 January 04:52

  I was at the lounge on opening day. I second the comments – it is a great space, great food, not too busy and quite a few staff present which makes it extra attentive!

  • Capt Hammond says:

    31 Jan31 January 08:07

    Excellent. Flying with Qatar from Singapore next month – something else to look forward to!

• NS says:

  31 Jan31 January 05:38

  O/T but I’ve just realised that my platinum anniversary passed and I didn’t receive the new card. I thought they were supposed to send this out to everyone when they took the fees for the next year?

  • Shoestring says:

    31 Jan31 January 06:05

    did you check your fees paid yet? some people got away with old fees on renewal, I’m not sure a better card would be worth raising the issue

  • Lev441 says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:56

    Just go online and request a replacement metal card – has been available to you to order since last summer…

• Shoestring says:

  31 Jan31 January 06:33

  our boys are coming home! (sob)
  https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ec-kxn/#23b5120c

  • Shoestring says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:50

    so that’s another botch of a UK FCO operation & expensive with it

    Boeing 747-4H6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747-400 – capacity 416 in a typical 3-class layout

    72 Brits on board and 25 Spanish (I think)

    probably end up costing £5-10K each to evacuate and no doubt closer to £10K/ person with the quarantine arrangements

    all to save a bit of face/ show we look after our own, I sure hope the other 11 million people in Wuhan don’t come down with pussycat virus but I doubt very much if that was ever a significant danger now the virus is being contained – has this cost to the taxpayer done anything much to help the evacuees? (except alleviate some stress)

    • Paul says:

      31 Jan31 January 08:05

      But they get to experience something that money or any amount of points cannot buy – 2 weeks all inclusive in Birkenhead! 😂

      • Sandgrounder says:

        31 Jan31 January 09:05

        Nah Arrowe Park is on the nice side of the M53, the atmosphere is more lush fairway as opposed to smack alley 🙂

        • ankomonkey says:

          31 Jan31 January 09:21

          Growing up in this area, I got to spend time on both sides 😉

          I even jogged home on the M53 once after I couldn’t get a taxi.

        • Paul says:

          31 Jan31 January 10:15

          Nice side of the M53?😂 Got to love the deluded residents of the ‘Paradise Peninsula’ who really wish they lived in Blundellsands or Formby!
          Get your stores of dry food and water in sharpish because if the virus is not contained in there it’s a quick lockdown – surrounded on 3 sides by water and only 3 roads need to be closed to create total lockdown and no points redemptions for the foreseeable!😷🤧😳

      • ankomonkey says:

        31 Jan31 January 09:19

        My birth place!

    • Lady London says:

      31 Jan31 January 09:14

      It’s all about looking good on taxpayer’s money

      • Freddy says:

        31 Jan31 January 09:23

        I heard shoestring wants a mass epidemic/ population reduction to improve avios seat availability for his place in the sun.

        • Shoestring says:

          31 Jan31 January 09:39

          I’ve long thought 6 billion is a sustainable world population (*was* 3 billion 1960, *will be* 8 billion 2027) – but would prefer somewhat softer methods of getting there 🙂
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

    • Aston100 says:

      31 Jan31 January 10:26

      Shoestring. What exactly would it take for you to stop being a denier?

      • Shoestring says:

        31 Jan31 January 10:36

        I’m not a denier – I’m sure it’s a dangerous virus – but we have sophisticated ways to contain it and devise an effective vaccine in short measure

        and it’s a pussycat virus compared to SARS, which caused 775 deaths worldwide attributed, obvs more than that – I’m hoping pussycat virus can be kept at half that, what with the warm season fast approaching and the vaccine in place by next year

      • Karen Brown says:

        31 Jan31 January 11:18

        What’s a denier?

        • Shoestring says:

          31 Jan31 January 11:23

          we’re not talking tights

          denier as in denying the pussycat virus could turn into a deadly world epidemic if not contained and a vaccine rapidly found

    • John says:

      31 Jan31 January 13:01

      Stop using the pathetic description “pussycat virus.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/a-man-lies-dead-in-the-street-the-image-that-captures-the-wuhan-coronavirus-crisis

      • BJ says:

        31 Jan31 January 13:39

        Already surpassed Sars (and always the possibility for rapid, even more harmful mutation)
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51322733

        • Rhys says:

          31 Jan31 January 13:57

          …fewer deaths, though.

      • 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? 😷

• NigelthePensioner says:

  31 Jan31 January 06:36

  I can picture a queue of people stripped to their underwear, queuing up for their jackets, trousers, skirts, dresses to be steamed! Then they wear them again or fold them into a case. Upon arrival they need pressing again!!
  Its like some poor people who cannot sit in a Virgin lounge for 3 hours without using a gym…… resulting in maloderous shorts, socks, vests and trainers permeating the Upper Class cabin from carry ons…….
  Do people really need these facilities??

  • Marcw says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:05

    Why do you bother what others do or don’t do?

  • Matt says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:22

    Agreed. Also why bother washing your clothes; they’ll only get dirty and need washing again (and the same for washing yourself actually).

    • Matt says:

      31 Jan31 January 07:24

      Although seriously, people who gym instead of monging in a lounge drinking champagne and eating yummy food should be applauded. I wish I was that motivated but alas I’ll just be fat when I’m old.

  • Oh! Matron! says:

    31 Jan31 January 08:25

    Yup, people do.

    My normal day if I’m travelling with Virgin is to stay at the HX HGI, go for a 6KM run (there’s an excellent circuit starting at the HGI), grab my stuff (still in my running stuff), get the tube, go through security, into the Virgin lounge, and then have a really nice, long, hot shower

    So, if I can have my shoes polished, why not my shirt steamed also?

    Admittedly, there’s probably not many folk like me, but if you’re sitting down for the 10 hours or so to SFO, it makes sense to get at least some exercise

    • Lady London says:

      31 Jan31 January 09:16

      Exercise can help a lot when in transit between flights.

      I agree with @NigelthePensioner about the stinkiness, though. Almost like “I;m First Class so I’ll permeate the cabin with funk”.

      • Oh! Matron! says:

        31 Jan31 January 10:50

        And questionable dress sense.

        • Anna says:

          31 Jan31 January 13:08

          Quite – on my first F flight last May to JFK, I was seated in 2A – following take off, the man in 1 F took off his business suit and spent the entire journey in his vest and boxer shorts while responding to his emails and drinking the cabin dry of claret (it was a really good claret, can’t blame him there). Meanwhile, the guy in 1A refused all food and drink and ate his own trail-mix kind of snack then did yoga in the aisle for about 2 hours!

        • Shoestring says:

          31 Jan31 January 13:18

          that’s precisely why I refuse to travel in F

        • The Savage Squirrel says:

          31 Jan31 January 14:18

          Anna, the real question is … what sort of vibe did YOU give off to be put in the special section with the loonies 😉

        • Lady London says:

          31 Jan31 January 15:08

          Was that a flight to New York? IRMC.

        • Anna says:

          31 Jan31 January 16:46

          Savage Squirrel – obviously BA want their business as they got 1A and 1K!! (Which never became available hence we had 2A and 2K)

• Andrew says:

  31 Jan31 January 07:11

  With capacity for only 85 people in the lounge I think there is a good chance they will be turning away other OneWorld customers, to allow capacity for their own. This lounge is great if flying QR, but I wouldn’t get too excited about accessing it if flying BA.

  • BJ says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:23

    85 would be perfect of they would just keep everybody out except those actually flying BA F, CW and WTP.

    • Lady London says:

      31 Jan31 January 09:17

      …. and “pull the ladder up, Jack and spare us from these unclean masses”

    • BJ says:

      31 Jan31 January 09:55

      Apologies @LadyLondon and others, I requested Rob/Rhys delete some comments but they have only partially done so. Given that, and some comments from others above, I’m clearly not the only one losing it this morning 🙂

      • Lady London says:

        31 Jan31 January 11:21

        🙂

        Wondered if you’ve acquired a doppelganger, @BJ

        • Cat says:

          31 Jan31 January 11:52

          Damn, did my year 11 class make me miss the controversy?
          Will you be calling yourself “the real BJ” from now on?

        • BJ says:

          31 Jan31 January 12:02

          My grey matter was AWOL ladies, and Andrew was the unwitting ‘beneficiary’.

  • Lady London says:

    31 Jan31 January 09:20

    They are closing in the part of the day when there’s not QR flights to be served.

  • Darren says:

    31 Jan31 January 09:28

    I’ll let you know how I get on in a couple of weeks!

    Great comprehensive review by Many miles.

• Andrew says:

  31 Jan31 January 08:03

  I would also expect a strict dress code in this lounge – the QR Bangkok lounge does not permit shorts of any kind to be worn. I guess this is a way of them limiting entrance and applies for QR passengers too.

• Oh! Matron! says:

  31 Jan31 January 08:27

  Speaking of lounges, every PP lounge in Geneva was turning away PP customers at the weekend. There was a sign up outside the KLM/AF one saying so, but I walked in and there was plenty of space. Just in case, I’d call up one of the lounges ahead of time

  • EwanG says:

    31 Jan31 January 10:31

    It says the AF/KLM lounge is the one in the French sector.
    On the Swiss side they are down to 2 lounges accepting PP – Dnata Skyview and Horizon, I think there were 4 previously, so getting into a lounge with PP is more difficult than it used to be at peak times. Got in a lounge both times in the last few months but that was outside peak season. I have found food in both of those to be mediocre, not as good as the (Swiss side) AF/KLM one which was my preference previously, but when I’ve gone there they have said they don’t accept PP anymore. Which AF/KLM one did you go to?

    • Oh! Matron! says:

      31 Jan31 January 10:52

      There’s two entrances 🙂 One on the swiss side, one on the french side. There’s no desk on the swiss side, so you walk in and it’s highlighted that “someone will come and check your boarding pass” : Something that never happened!

      • EwanG says:

        31 Jan31 January 11:59

        Ah ok, thanks and good to know. Hopefully I’ll get time to have a look when I’m there next month but fully expecting lounges to be turning folk away on a half term Saturday during the ski season!

  • Nate1309 says:

    31 Jan31 January 13:58

    Horizon let 6 of us in on tuesday afternoon, 2xPP, 2xDP, 2xLC. Food mediocre at best.

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