Hi all just wanted to share my recent travels . I travel to ROK (Korea) regularly and clearly would prefer to use my Platinum privileges with Qantas. Sadly like many places our national carrier does not include Korea but has some arrangement with Asiana. I tried Asiana once that was enough. So it QF to Hong Kong and CX to Incheon. The wait can be a real pain as QF gets into HK around 5pm and CX does not have a convenient connection. Stay in HK for the night or wait 6 hours and get the 1am flight into Incheon. The new QF lounge is very very good I would recommend it. The CX lounges at HK are excellent too so no hardship suffered there. HK airport is not as great as it once was noticeably many of the shops have closed , it was never cheap anyway! Incheon airport is very good very efficient and clean.
At the risk of being called a Qantas basher our routes with the National carrier seem to be ever diminishing and you become reliant on other One World carriers at least around Asia. Not too long ago we could get Qantas flights to many more ports.
One comment on the QF service to Hong Kong, out of Sydney at least the last three times it has been on a A380. Two times business one time cattle class. My observation to Qantas is the A380 is a cold aircraft in PE and Upstairs economy on two occasions now extra blankets were issued given it is an overnight flight. The A380 is good to fly in but can be very noisy downstairs and in my recent experience cold upstairs. I find the A330 to be a barely adequate for longer hauls and compared to the 777 a poor second in comfort.
At the risk of being called a Qantas basher our routes with the National carrier seem to be ever diminishing and you become reliant on other One World carriers at least around Asia. Not too long ago we could get Qantas flights to many more ports.
One comment on the QF service to Hong Kong, out of Sydney at least the last three times it has been on a A380. Two times business one time cattle class. My observation to Qantas is the A380 is a cold aircraft in PE and Upstairs economy on two occasions now extra blankets were issued given it is an overnight flight. The A380 is good to fly in but can be very noisy downstairs and in my recent experience cold upstairs. I find the A330 to be a barely adequate for longer hauls and compared to the 777 a poor second in comfort.