scrubbedexpat141

Citibank is linked to my skywards.

mile per buck spent I think.

weasel decentral

Some one plants trees and sells the carbon offsets to you ? Or you actually plant trees?

I like to think I am providing fuel credits to create the market for carbon credits.

To answer the question though; 75% of the travel is unnecessary and due in part to the fact that (already mentioned) no one can really be trusted and you need to physically see them face to face.

Miss Anne Thrope

The A380 seats are the best EK has but confined to only that aircraft whereas by contrast, all new Etihad aircraft are fitted with a very similar set-up to the EK A380 J seat. You are and will continue to be far more likely to be on a 777 when flying EK than any other aircraft. Emirates are the only ones who have 7 across in business on the 777: even the cruddy American carriers only have 6 across, many have only 5 or 4. And in Economy only EK squeeze in 10 seats across in the 777 versus 9 across for most others.


Sad but not surprising... First lounges in LHR/LGW are entirely for Gold card holders anyway, I guess, as paying F passengers can use the Concorde lounge. EK could do something similar but they're not going to, apparently. I do much prefer the BA (and CX and SQ and AF) approach of having a few lounges available at different areas of the airport rather than the EK Dubai mega-cattle-station with some very long walks to some gates (and to get in and out of the lounge). Apparently this will be taken to an even further extreme in Concourse 3 with one enormous business lounge the size (and comfort and service, no doubt) of a bloody football stadium.

scrubbedexpat141

I don't pay to fly business. Nor do I get flights provided (at any level).

The couple of times I have upgraded on the cheap I've used to EK lounge at Dubai.

Yeah it's massive, yeah it's full of ***********s (me included) but it's still 'free' beer and grub.

Miss Anne Thrope

When you offer me the stage, I simply must perform..... And my lack of I/O is clearly down to the same boneheadedness at EK that has resulted in their crappy seat designs and awful Dubai lounges.

Actually I was mentioning the 8th renewal more in resignation than anything. And it was a more concise way of indicating that I do fly quite a bit than listing my (nevertheless fascinating) schedule.

I'm not sure I observe people travelling more here than elsewhere - that was something I noticed in the US more than anywhere else (perhaps moreso before domestic US air travel became complete and utter hell, versus the mere purgatory it used to be). As everybody has to fly to get here in the first place and comes with an eventual plan to leave I guess flying is more in the DNA but I don't notice (and as a noted trip-dodger) don't indulge in any more superfluous travel than anywhere else.

Miss Anne Thrope

But not nearly as nice as other airline lounges, including Emirates' own "away" lounges at out-station airports, which are really nice...

Millhouse

I believe we pay someone to plant trees. As an institution I don't think we believe in this whole buying credits game.

mikewot

Only for A380 and that lounge will have direct entry to the appropriate area of the aircraft so you don't need to mingle with the economy scum any more.

weasel decentral

Nobody does really but you would if you got into the selling credits game.

Miss Anne Thrope

Invitation Only - what it says on the tin: a discretionary (and discrete) level above Gold that can't be "earned" only offered to people Emirates considers very important (not necessarily frequent travellers, at least commercially). It's like BA Premier or Delta Flying Colonels to list the only other examples I know. You might spot their specially painted Land Rovers at the airport sometimes (providing a chauffeur service even if you're in economy).

scrubbedexpat141

No agree. But it's not a shitpit like the ones we used to go in with my Dad using his Priority Pass thing.

mikewot

Ah! Mercy Buckets!

Miss Anne Thrope

Still plenty of them about - take a bow Servisair lounges everywhere and an honourable mention for the Marhaba lounge in Dubai T1...

Bahtatboy

There's a shitty one at Muscat, too. Can't remember the name, but full of old, cheap, nasty and torn sofas and stale food.

Millhouse

Cairo (any terminal).