SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

[MEL_Traveller]

Reduce your stress. Enjoy Changi. Don’t rely on everything going perfectly.

Book the flights with the longer transit time.

Agree. And depending on departure time from HKG, might be an opportunity to have a shower, if needed, in SIN, and be refreshed for the onward flight.

 

[kamchatsky]

Standards have definitely fallen. My next flights are with QR, NH and CX. From recent experience, all consistent and offer a better product usually at a much lower cost.

I have recently flown QR J for 4 sectors. I found them to be better than SQ J in seating (except on QRs old ex-CX planes, even then, sleeping experience was better), food, service, lounge, amenity kit, pyjamas. The only thing I still prefer is to transit at SIN than DOH even though QR Al Mourjan lounge is much better.

I found SQ J catering standards to have come down.

However, for Aus-East Asia routes, SQ is still one of the best ones, and that actually provided some award availability to/from Australia in peak seasons. No way I would travel on QR via DOH.

CX is even more stingy on award availability, unless you are Diamond or above.

Of course i am not going to even talk about QF.

So really SQ is still a preferred airline, but on a least worst basis.

 

[lovestotravel]

I'm really hoping the launch of the new A350 seating which is due any day, and is meant to being improvements to the F&B and possibly PJ's etc is actually exciting.

The J product is basically a 15 year old design now on the 777's and A350 and even the A380's have a 8 year old seat...