NewbieRunner

Since when has restraining oneself been a virtue on FT?

NewbieRunner

If you insist... Hiding in a remote corner of the People’s Republic is no excuse.


H2/2018

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Q4/2018

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chris63 posted 241 times on this forum since 2018-10-01!

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Concerto

Interesting set of statistics. I will have to post more! But I don't want to unless I really have something to contribute and I feel a lot of my posts don't really add anything to the thread concerned.

We're really not allowed to discuss other posters here, but all the same I do wonder what happened to weero, who used to add a lot of spice to this forum.

oliver2002

@weero is around, mostly in OMNI/PR

weero

weero has been virtually 'grounded' by his professorial and university duties, has lost all status with LH, burned his award mile stash with LH down to nearly half a measly million.

I still have to go to US&A a lot and hence feel obliged to defend the unpopular president of theirs. I do commute mostly on JL and CX, rarely SQ. I did it twice on AA which I do not really recommend. I rode to the US once on LH which triggered an audit .. and once - as by contract demand - on UA for which I would now decline the project, if UA was mandatory again.
But there is no point posting in the UA forum as everyone who isn't a blind cult follower has left the Titanic once she struck the ocean floor. Who's left is a crew member of Davy Jones' Locker and will call me a liar when I complain that the FA aboard UA offered me "chicken or chicken" for breakfast.
So I floated back to the surface and wait for the RMS Carpathia or a whale, or any decent airline.

Concerto

Oh that's good weero, thanks for feeding back. Things sound like I expected them to be, but I do wonder what sort of audit your trip on LH triggered and how it was triggered. (As for the president over there, despite what people think I don't see him as being such a problem as what the country has become, evolved into, in the last years. But this is solidly OMNI). As for me, I have been heading to Russia a lot and have really liked it. After all, musically the place is amazing, and you won't get any Rimsky-Korsakov or Taneyev operas played anywhere over here in Europe. Russian ballet is also outstanding, Bolshoi politics notwithstanding. The airlines are not bad too (SU, S7) and you get nice service à l'ancienne, with proper bar service (not the BoB xxxx that LX has become on the GVA-DME route and don't even get me started on SN).

weero

Well, LH touches down in my home continent on the SIN-IAH route (technically, SQ does too but no one notices) and that raises the suspicion of me vacationing on my turf.
The connection times are indeed quite long but I wanted that.
Indeed - there is lot of entertainment value buried in that discrepancy.
Two of my closest working colleagues - who hail from the PRC - had to go to Russia, toured around a bit and are in awe ever since. I reckon that they too consumed a bit too much propaganda and not enough history before they went over.

They loved the infrastructure and the population in general. They are very critical of S'Pore ever since ....
Haha. While that is tough to digest, I can easily imagine what you are referring to. LX always finds new creative ways to disappoint the customers who learned to have zero expectation.

My biggest new grievance is the renovated SEN lounge which is permanently out of stock of the items they brag about. It's nearly as bad as a Krisflyer Gold shed.

Concerto

The general lounge situation in Zurich sucks all the way to hell, and it will be very soon before they have to redesign and reconstruct the SEN and Business lounges. And that means spending loads more money in addition to what they have already spent. The Business lounge (as FTL I get access there) is dreadful and there is now no longer anywhere to sit. You can't even walk past people to find a seat, it's so stupidly designed. What drug were the so-called professional designers and architects on??? How do these people get these jobs??? How ? How?

Switzerland really blows me away in this respect. In music anyway, rich countries such as Japan and Switzerland attract charlatans and wannabies and a real mafia of mediocrity develops. But it seems it is not just in music: to take one example, the design of Maison de la musique in Martigny VS is soooo bad, with poor utilization of space, a dreadful layout (think third world bus station) and utter bog awful acoustics in the main auditorium. So much so, that despite the millions having been spent on it, we are obliged to seek alternative venues for music exam recitals. And spend more money hiring those alternative venues. The only good thing about the Maison de la musique is its proximity to the SBB train station. Loads other examples, outside music and architecture, but I'm way OT.

weero

I ended up there once - brought a visitor and they did not want to let me into the SEN wing.

If you ignore the "out of stock" offerings from the SEN lounge, the differences are fairly minor. But compared to FRA, the ZRH lounges are now so bad that I try to bypass them if I can check in tightly.
In Zurich? Empirical evidence points to cocaine ....

And while I feel for CH's failure when it comes to protect music. During my last concert here, I counted three parents where whose kids had tables to keep them 'quiet' ... the kids, not the tablets. They were clearly audible during the quieter movements.

worldclubber

mmff

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While I see your point, I have to disagree with you on this. The only time I was at the venue I could hear (and feel) the trains passing by. Definitely not a good thing!
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weero

I am clueless in all things FCL these days - I haven't flown F in some 100'000 years.
The E lounges aren't outright revolting but since the demise of the pretty Heidi, I'd not ride that creepy train just to get to the lounge .

worldclubber

NewbieRunner

What’s happened to Heidi?

Good to see you back in this forum, @weero !

weero

It's a tad inconclusive, she likely became roadkill to the maintenance of the shuttle train. She was the subject of the strobe images of one branch of the train and more decorative than the 50+ year old 'Geissenpeter' on the branch.

When writing in to get Ms Hedi back, I was pointed to the many controversies surrounding her existence, including the salient point that she's rumored to be German rather than Swiss. As if - for a person from Grisons and Heidiland itself, this would be as bad as Johanna Spyri being from greater Zurich or the movie playing in St. Moritz ... but that's for OMNI again.
I have very little to say regarding LH though ... will fly them in a few weeks and still like the new post-Wolf&Mayrhuber&Franz LH (I know, I know, de mortuis nil nisi bonum) but I haven't touched M&M (the program, not the candy) in aeons.