SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

[Cruiser Elite]

The Canterbury in Sydney I think mate

‘Locally’? Canterbury SYD is now a suburb of MEL? Small world huh?

 

[stm1sydney]

The Canterbury in Sydney I think mate

LOL, not many sheep stations there either!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

If it pleases your Honour - I would like to contend that SQ Culinary panel like most culinary panels on most airlines are merely a ‘bunch of flogs’ - just sayin’

 

[dajop]

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Holiday here in MEL as most know so I took the opportunity to drive hours on end but just could find the farm that these ‘locally sourced’ wooly backs might have come from? Can anybody enlighten me?

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You’re looking at this form the wrong perspective. SQ isn’t a Melbourne based airline so clearly what it defines as local is different . Look at these pastures.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Big holdings there?

The abattoirs in SIN only process smalls or beef as well?

FTR ‘smalls’ = lamb, sheep, goats and bobby calves.

 

[Quickstatus]

The Canterbury in Sydney I think mate

No farms there

Look at these pastures.

Not here either


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But here: I suspect the "locally sourced" just mean the frozen Canterbury lamb is locally sourced from the local distributor/importer

 

[Scr77]

So do we know if the “Canterbury” lamb is any good?

 

[Quickstatus]

So do we know if the “Canterbury” lamb is any good?

The problem is the tastebuds at 35,000 feet

 

[Cruiser Elite]

So do we know if the “Canterbury” lamb is any good?

It may well have been until they threw in the Eggplant Salsa and Green Rice

I can tell you SQ ‘Culinary Experts’ love murdering lamb full stop - the horrible green herb crust on this just begged to be scraped off before eating.

 

[Scr77]

It may well have been until they threw in the Eggplant Salsa and Green Rice

I can tell you SQ ‘Culinary Experts’ love murdering lamb full stop - the horrible green herb crust on this just begged to be scraped off before eating.
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Barramundi is my normal go to out of Melbourne. Might give the mysterious Canterbury lamb a go.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

It may well have been until they threw in the Eggplant Salsa and Green Rice

I can tell you SQ ‘Culinary Experts’ love murdering lamb full stop - the horrible green herb crust on this just begged to be scraped off before eating.
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Plus the lamb was overcooked (or at least it was on Monday).

 

[BCons]

Had a lamb rack (less the rack bones themselves..) ex Syd at beginning of this trip. Was well paired with a slightly old Bordeaux. Mentioned that wine and a few others somewhere up-thread, but after a day of legging it around Bologna can’t be bggrd to refer to it. Can say that after 7 flts in Eu since we decanted ourselves from SQ at Heathrow, it will be a particular pleasure to get back onboard in a few weeks time. I don’t care what they’re serving for lunch, so long as there’s a decent burgundy and I can have some before we take off. In the meantime putting up with some awful Italian muck; barbaresco, today’s Albana (Italy’s first DOCG white), and suchlike..

 

[TerenceM]

If you have a booking where one leg is on Scoot (and therefore wouldn't earn Velocity Points) and one on Singapore Airlines, how do you credit only the Scoot leg to Krisflyer and the Singapore Airlines leg to Velocity?

I thought this wasn't possible, but I entered Krisflyer on my booking and flew the first leg on Scoot, then changed it to Velocity on the self-check in kiosk at Changi Airport before my SQ leg and this looks to have worked.

Do you actually have to do this or if your Krisflyer and Velocity is linked, is it smart enough to credit the Scoot flight to Krisflyer automatically if you've put Velocity as the program to credit to on the booking?

 

[Phoenix-1]

I'm trying to change my flight and the call centre is causing my grief. Originally was SGN-SIN-SYD and I want to change to BKK-SIN-SYD, but apparently this is only available for new bookings (Qantas call centre flashbacks). I've been through 5 agents so far.

Should I just give up and pay the extra $50USD?

 

[I love to travel]

I'm trying to change my flight and the call centre is causing my grief. Originally was SGN-SIN-SYD and I want to change to BKK-SIN-SYD, but apparently this is only available for new bookings (Qantas call centre flashbacks). I've been through 5 agents so far.

Should I just give up and pay the extra $50USD?

Yes

 

[dajop]

I'm trying to change my flight and the call centre is causing my grief. Originally was SGN-SIN-SYD and I want to change to BKK-SIN-SYD, but apparently this is only available for new bookings (Qantas call centre flashbacks). I've been through 5 agents so far.

Should I just give up and pay the extra $50USD?

I’ve got a feeling you’re hitting country of ticketing issue. As your ticket issued in Vietnam they are unable to re-issue out of Thailand. I could be talking out my backside but I’ve got a feeling if you wanted to change it to originating in HAN or DAD it would be fine.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

I’ve got a feeling you’re hitting country of ticketing issue. As your ticket issued in Vietnam they are unable to re-issue out of Thailand. I could be talking out my backside but I’ve got a feeling if you wanted to change it to originating in HAN or DAD it would be fine.

I had always understood that you could only change online for already booked SQ flights the Date/Time of travel and not any of the airports being flown out/in/transiting through. You can also change between cabin class.

ie the flight legs have to remain the same, and you can only change when the flight leaves.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

I'm trying to change my flight and the call centre is causing my grief. Originally was SGN-SIN-SYD and I want to change to BKK-SIN-SYD, but apparently this is only available for new bookings (Qantas call centre flashbacks). I've been through 5 agents so far.

Should I just give up and pay the extra $50USD?

My understanding is that you will need to cancel, and then book a new flight.