When you are in the lounge with boarding calls are not made (especially when you go to a different lounge to the one you are directed to at check-in), how do you monitor when your flight is actually boarding, especially if it is delayed?
- FIDS in the lounge?
- Googling your flight number?
- Official airport website?
- Ask lounge staff?
Its a pain to head to the gate (especially when its a fair way from the lounge) only to find the flight hasn't boarded yet and the gate staff don't know when it will.
On my last TG flight out of MEL I was in the SQ MEL lounge and was told as usual that they do not make non-SQ boarding calls. My flight departed at 15:20. At about 14:50 I headed to the gate to find them removing the lanes and about to close the doors. They were very flustered that I was so 'late' (despite being at the gate 25+ minutes before departure time) and they closed the aircraft doors before I had even sat down in my seat onboard (the plane ended up leaving the gate 20 minutes before scheduled departure). While it felt rushed and flustered I was also a bit annoyed that they were panicking so much just because they wanted to leave early.
- FIDS in the lounge?
- Googling your flight number?
- Official airport website?
- Ask lounge staff?
Its a pain to head to the gate (especially when its a fair way from the lounge) only to find the flight hasn't boarded yet and the gate staff don't know when it will.
On my last TG flight out of MEL I was in the SQ MEL lounge and was told as usual that they do not make non-SQ boarding calls. My flight departed at 15:20. At about 14:50 I headed to the gate to find them removing the lanes and about to close the doors. They were very flustered that I was so 'late' (despite being at the gate 25+ minutes before departure time) and they closed the aircraft doors before I had even sat down in my seat onboard (the plane ended up leaving the gate 20 minutes before scheduled departure). While it felt rushed and flustered I was also a bit annoyed that they were panicking so much just because they wanted to leave early.