I am in the
Qantas lounge at Changi Airport - in Terminal One. I am awaiting the boarding
call for my flight to Sydney. I am departing on the 8.10 pm flight. I would
much rather be flying Singapore Airlines.
Singapore
Airlines are called SQ by we Frequent Fliers. My Employer has recently done
some deal with Qantas where I no longer have the choice to fly Singapore
Airlines. In order to not fly Qantas to Sydney I was required to seek an
exemption and I gave this a shot.
The Global Travel
people rejected it.
The reason I
offered up was that I don't like flying Qantas and that their service sucks. I
find the staff to be quite rude and belligerent. In my exemption request I also
advised that I was not very impressed when the Irish Boss of Qantas decided to
stop all flights around the world last year in his battle with the Trade
Unions. I believed that stranding all the Qantas passengers was a selfish and
arrogant act and I said that I objected strongly to an Irish man running an
Australian airline. I also told my Company's Global travel team that flying
Qantas does my PPS status no good.
PPS is an uber
elite club for people who fly a lot. Like me. You only get PPS miles when you
fly Business or First class. My Employer flies me Business Class everywhere I
go. As they should. I travel a lot. In the PPS club we get special treatment.
We get luxurious lounges all to ourselves and we are treated beautifully both on
the planes and in the Singapore Airlines lounges. It is very nice. I have no
idea what the acronym PPS stands for.
So don't
ask.
Singapore
Airlines are the best in the world - well I think so anyway. All this was to no
avail anyway. My exemption request was denied and I was told quite firmly that
I was not allowed to fly SQ.
I had to fly
Qantas.
Where I am now
in the Qantas club there are bogans everywhere. Qantas have obviously not
enforced the no bogan rule. Bogans would not be allowed in the PPS lounge that
is operated by SQ. There are a couple of bogans sitting opposite to me now. I
think that they have been to Phuket in Thailand. Their hair is braided and they
are very sun burnt. They are drinking red wine like there is no tomorrow. They
are pouring it down their throats. I suspect that they are determined to get as
pissed as they can before they fly home. I hope they are flying to Melbourne
and they are not on the same flight as me to Sydney.
If I had to
guess where these bogan people are returning to I would guess Adelaide or
perhaps Darwin. Their tattoos and lack of teeth would suggest this. I don't
want to sit near them or even be on the same plane as them.
I have my
earphones in my ears and I am playing my music loud.
I don't wish
to speak to any bogans and I am afraid to make eye contact. Drunk bogans can be
very unpredictable and they can be dangerous. I am looking around the lounge
now. Yep, there are bogans all over the place here. They are drinking the
lounge dry.
They
are everywhere.
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