Originally Posted by
percysmith
The sticker gives you no privileges - it's only there to help ground staff to quickly identify passengers queuing in the wrong gate e.g. two Qantas flights, or two CX flights to same destination.
Lostabroad - CX doesn't own the buggy service. CX will pay for buggy only if your connection is tight. Not because you have status and/or flying F. Don't like it? "Transit BKK la". But honestly the distances between gates in BKK are further.
I now understand what the sticker is for--was explained alaready. I'm still in disbelieve that they'd even bother, as I only had half an hour to the technical take off time and no other CX planes near my gate were departing. I had the vantage of having to run past them all. What is tighter than that to require the buggy in HKG? We had a full first class too, with just about everyone asking the same questions about the sticker and gate location. You'd think the home airport would have slightly better service.
You can't directly compare BKK and HKG. They cover similar acreage, but BKK is an "H" shape and HKG is a "Y" shape. While the longest theoretical distance between gates is at BKK, the longest distance from street side to furthest gate is at HKG. The run I took was just about that length at HKG.
This was award travel on last minute CX-F openings. I didn't have the luxury of picking my layovers, but I'll keep your snarky comment about BKK-LA in mind next time I pay cash.