kaka

kaka

LHR/MEL/Europe FF

When there are irrops they have staff to manage those irrops, including getting people out of the airport and to hotels (or home).

If a passenger is entering the departures hall to have eggs benedict and a shower, there is no dedicated member of staff to assist getting them out again. So the passenger wanting a leisurly breakfast has to wait. That's fair enough. The lounges aren't arrivals lounges, passengers know that. Yes they can still do it, but there's a small price to pay (you have to wait to be escorted out).

percysmith

Are the "snotty" agents referring to you having taken a wrong turn by coming up to departures?

I don't see their intention of actually facilitating your return to arrivals.

If you have genuine IRROPs then that's fine - they get to tag you against that IRROPs.

And as LHR/MEL/Europe FF mentioned - it is someone's proper job to actually do that.

It is trying to depart exit area without IRROPs that is to be discouraged.

kaka

percysmith

Wrong
This is what was said:

This is a false assumption by uncommonsensical - the snotty agents have no intention of providing or acting as that escort.

Simply put - the first statement should be read as "why I don't head straight to arrivals after deplaning and just get a hotel for the night"

Chinese have a way of abstracting words Checked-in baggage screening in Taipei - "看行李"

kaka

percysmith

Attitude yes invtation no.

It's a bit like me telling you (I did frequently) "love it or leave". I have no intention of setting up your life outside HK (you have overseas nationality already).

kaka

uncommonsensical

your ability to go into such detail as to the intricacies of a conversation that occurred between people you don't know and that did not happen in your presence is, frankly, astounding.

it will come as a shock to you that in this instance, probably for the first time in your life, your Nostradamus abilities fell short. nonetheless, your confidence in your abilities has given ME confidence in your abilities. ergo... wondering who will win the Kentucky Derby this year?

your powers notwithstanding, curious as to your putting "snotty" in quotes- have you not been to this lounge?!? I've been there 35-40x minimum and i've yet to experience anything but snotty from the greeters- and my observation isn't exactly an outlier. in contrast, everyone else in the lounge, without exception, has always been pleasant. further, I've yet to have anything but a wonderful cabin crew on a CX flight (though i've heard this excellence is changing). but, as for the glorified greeters, "snotty" is a filtered word to suit the tender sensibilities of the likes of you- there are more apt adjectives that apply...

kaka

uncommonsensical

yep. i've only gotten that attitude a couple of times at the pier (i just assume they were scheduled in the wrong place for the day!).

i much prefer the pier. I really only go to the wing for the cabanas. the showers elsewhere are small and invariably get steamed up so you're sweating after a shower- yuck. everything else is better at the pier- and it's a healthy/needed walk between the two.

thing is, i never planned to go into the city that day. i hadn't slept much the night before and was just going to take a nap at the pier and chill. i ended up not as tired as i thought i'd be and saw it was a beautiful day in HKG and decided it would be stupid to spend it in an airport. so, yeah, not the nefarious premeditated crime lurking in the fertile imaginations of FT SJWs.

sxc