Originally Posted by timriley12

- my biggest gripe (which unfortunately made the whole pass thing not really worth it in the end): I don't know if this was a CathayPacific thing or a BKK thing: arrived about 5hrs prior to my 4pm flight out of BKK. Cathay refused to allow us to check our bags in: they said that they were just the morning crew and that the afternoon Cathay crew would have to check us in because they were worried our bags would get lost. That meant that instead of being able to check in and avail ourselves of the lounge we had already paid for, we had to hang out until 1:30pm which is when the afternoon Cathay crew appeared at the checking counters, at which point about 50 other passengers were already lined up waiting for their counters to reopen. So it was about 2:30pm by the time we made it past security and so we had only about 1.5hrs max of lounge time. Definitely not worth it. I suspect this is a Cathay problem (probably not an issue if we had gone with ThaiAirways or someone with constant presence there) - so I would not recommend using this sort of lounge paid service if you are flying with Cathay. We only went with Cathay this round because we had Asiamiles that were about to expire - but Cathay has definitely lost me as a customer. StarAlliance all the way from now on.