I am in no way shape or form a QF apologist. As I have already stated in other posts I have shifted a bulk of my flying away from QF to UA, DL, SQ and VA. If I had remained with QF this year I would have made P1 by the middle of the year. Instead I am sitting stuck in no mans land halfway between Platinum and Platinum One but with 1P on UA and nearly Gold on VA 2 months after being statused matched to Platinum. I shifted my travel because QF was far more expensive than others for pretty much the same thing.

Now regarding QF vs SQ I would be happy to fly either and would book which ever was the cheapest in J or F. If I needed to fly Y then I would book QF because of status (however to SIN I equally fly Y+ than I do J and therefore it has to be QF). However, with the daytime SIN-SYD flight going away this means future Y travel will only be SQ.

In my SQ flying I have not enjoyed the famed SQ Girl service and have found the service to be OK. Others I have spoken to have found the same unless they are a Singaporean business man. That is why I am saying the famed SQ > QF is perception. I will agree however that SQ regional config J seat is awesome and the most comfortable J seat, flat or otherwise I have ever travelled in for a daytime flight.

For the record the best service I have had in order has been NRT-JFK in J on JAL, SIN-NRT in J on ANA and BWI-LAX in F on UA followed by numerous flights operated by the original Jetconnect crews on SYD-WLG and v.v. in any class then a gap big enough to park the EK fleet on A380 lengthwise in to SQ in J equal to most QF flights regardless of class.