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Originally Posted by jackiedada
(Post 19277209)
What makes you think Y passengers are 'sweaty'?
Please do not be so presumptuous. Trust me that there are a fairly large number of folks on this planet who go in paid F but don't have the slightest of consideration for their fellow passengers or etiquette on board (apart from being sweaty and smelly). I'm sure you'll find yourself next to them fairly soon. (or do you belong to them that you actually don't notice that money doesn't have the slightest to do with grooming????) |
Originally Posted by El Puerco Volante
(Post 19276113)
Yee-ha! :D
EK does have the best overall F product. SQ is still better in the air, but if you consider the whole package - ground service, lounge, aircraft HW and so on - EK is the clear winner. So it's good to hear that this QF alliance won't break the product that I don't mind paying for. And about F lounge being already full - I never said that it's already too crowded. But at times it's very dangerously close to it, for my tastes. In F it's NOT about being able to find a place to sit - it's about finding a place to sit with enough privacy and space. Do I really want to share seating space with sweaty Y pax coming off 12+ flight from MEL when I paid F prices ? :p Currently F on EK is my first choice - and will continue to be so as long as EK can keep the product intact and enjoyable to fly. Regards, El Puerco Volante. +1 EK IO and QF CL( or whatever their secret elite program is should of course have F lounge access, because people that earn this level of course don't fly Y, usually paid F, and the rare J. They already have the F lounge access, so it should be kept for F pax, and IO/CL(?). |
Originally Posted by El Puerco Volante
(Post 19276113)
Yee-ha! :D
Do I really want to share seating space with sweaty Y pax coming off 12+ flight from MEL when I paid F prices ? :p Currently F on EK is my first choice - and will continue to be so as long as EK can keep the product intact and enjoyable to fly. Regards, El Puerco Volante. but they would be using the showers and spa in the lounge so surely there would be no sweaty passengers to put you off your caviar! :D :p |
I agree with the above posters, F Lounge should always remain exclusive to F customers. I have been through it at times when it was very busy between 6:30am and 8:00am, and between 11:30pm to 1:30 am. And personaly, when it is busy, it does lose some sort of "F feel".
When EK introduced suites to their A/C it was to provide exclusivity and ultimate privacy, I don't see why they want to devalue the product and go against that mind-set on the ground. My thoughts on what will happen is that probably Gold will have the same benefits. The fourth tier will probably have the chauffeur drive available in DXB, higher miles bonus, and if lounge access is to be provided, maybe to the current F lounge only, and this would come into effect after the new F lounge in the new concourse opens up. (Much like how now Silvers are only allowed in the "old" J lounge in T1). |
Originally Posted by KU104
(Post 19280497)
My thoughts on what will happen is that probably Gold will have the same benefits. The fourth tier will probably have the chauffeur drive available in DXB, higher miles bonus, and if lounge access is to be provided, maybe to the current F lounge only, and this would come into effect after the new F lounge in the new concourse opens up. (Much like how now Silvers are only allowed in the "old" J lounge in T1). |
there is also the mothballed lounge in T1?@:-)
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Originally Posted by desertweasel
(Post 19280608)
there is also the mothballed lounge in T1?@:-)
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Originally Posted by desertweasel
(Post 19280608)
there is also the mothballed lounge in T1?@:-)
Originally Posted by Zol
(Post 19280620)
That's true but what a treck from Concource 3 !
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Originally Posted by eightblack
(Post 19280626)
Good, put all the Silvers there then...:)
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Originally Posted by anat0l
(Post 19277355)
I took the comment to be facetious, as suggested by the :p smiley.
On top of that, all EK A380 F services have onboard shower, so in a way no F pax on such services, including El Puerco Volante, should have any excuse for being smelly upon disembarkation and proceeding to transit. :p :D Regards, El Puerco Volante |
Puts me in a bit of a quandary. I'm currently gold with both QF and EK, but in the future that would be somewhat redundant. So one airline is obviously going to get less of my business (I guess it will be Qantas).
Is that what Qantas intended? |
Originally Posted by Budley
(Post 19280918)
Puts me in a bit of a quandary. I'm currently gold with both QF and EK, but in the future that would be somewhat redundant. So one airline is obviously going to get less of my business (I guess it will be Qantas).
Is that what Qantas intended? And what's worse - they are pushing people towards EK,who offers a superior product,at the same time removing any reason to be loyal to QF. While on paper this is called "partnership", in reality EK will chew and spit QF. Regards, El Puerco Volante. |
Agree.
QF will become a regional airline. A noble but rather limited asian/trans pacific operator. This seems to be the deal of the century for EK. |
Originally Posted by Budley
(Post 19280918)
Puts me in a bit of a quandary. I'm currently gold with both QF and EK, but in the future that would be somewhat redundant. So one airline is obviously going to get less of my business (I guess it will be Qantas).
Is that what Qantas intended? |
Originally Posted by Forrest Bump
(Post 19282365)
Agree.
QF will become a regional airline. A noble but rather limited asian/trans pacific operator. This seems to be the deal of the century for EK. |
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