SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

[Cruiser Elite]

I appreciate your opinion MEL but I won’t be debating with you

 

[lovestotravel]

SQ is still the best option for us, despite constant enhancements that never seem to end.

My EK F flight that was meant to happen in March was cancelled due to the UAE issues, so haven't flown a premium cabin with EK now for about 5 years to compare accurately

We can get 2 Adult and 2 Children return in J to the UK/EU for around $28,500 with Amex Plat discounts. Qatar is around $30,000 but I'd never fly them. Etihad is $34,000 and Emirates is $36,000.

So for the extra $$ we'll stick to SQ and just let SQ be SQ..

I'm also sitting on close to 3 million QF points that we will burn on EK, at some stage....

At some point you cannot escape the fact that SQ are Singaporean through and through. Following rules to the exact letter and saying "Cannot lah" to anything else is modus operandi, especially amongst middle management level. Not everyone is like that, but people who would have the willingness and lateral thinking to see your problems as a problem, and much less solve it are probably in a higher pay grade.

To be fair though (and my occasional frustration with local colleagues here might be coloring my views in previous paragaph) I am not sure if this scenario happened on QF or QR or EK that the outcome would be any different, such is the tight leash that customer service roles are kept on across the industry.

I love Singapore, but the rules do make me laugh at times and I just go straight to the threat of a credit card chargeback when I need a refund. I don't have time for pathetic excuses.

Anyways, this is about SQ

Next flight with them is in 3 weeks in J...