EYCL Pax use SQ business class toilet and gets a scolding from crew

[FlyBoy]

To be honest, some of the posts here just reminds me of the class divide. Thank god I'm not on the receiving end..

Yep the class divdie is great with first/business/economy

The A340 with Singapore is good though, you wouldn't have this problem there

[Pinkfloyd]

3 pages of poo talk. lovely

I can't believe it's sparked on this much of a debate... Still, provides quite a bit of entertainment on an otherwise boring Wednesday night (ok, Thursday morning)...

[ozdude]

Ticketing = Using the toilet in your cabin that you have paid for. Which most decent airlines enforce and should continue to enforce

Oh yeah a "one off" I wonder how many people pull the "I really need the toilet desperately" routine in order so they don't wait.

All these people with all these "stomach bugs"

Perhaps they should maintain better personal hygiene and eat in more reputable locations. That or wear a nappy!

Yeah that's right, cos it's happening all the time. You guys in business / first / suites probably would never have noticed it.

If someone stared me down in my seat, even after scolding me, I would be making a complaint. That's just an ego, nothing else.

[feb01mel]

Maybe there wasn't an FA nearby for him to ask?

Sometimes the meal carts there do prove a hindrance, so pax do not even know they are not allowed to use the business class toilets, so they just go through the curtains and use the JCL toilets there, there is no galley at that area, just the closet, so most of the time there is no FA there.

[fone]

Maybe there wasn't an FA nearby for him to ask?

There was the drinks cart, which should have at least 1 FA there (2 FAs usually) and 2 FA (I assume by crew members, he means FA) near the toilet. And he refused to open his golden mouth and ask.

Excerpts below:

"After take-off, the crew started to serve drinks to the passengers. I suddenly developed a stomach ache and had to use the toilets. I stood up and saw that the toilets behind me were being used and there were other passengers waiting in line for them. I was also blocked by the drinks cart which was between me and the toilets.

....

"Before entering the toilet, I saw two crew members near the toilet who did not stop me going in. After I had finished, I exited the toilet and started walking back to my seat.

[SilverChris]

Maybe there wasn't an FA nearby for him to ask?

[feb01mel]

Noticed at times on the A380 EYCL upper deck, some pax (normally seated at rows 71-75) will go & use the 2 lavatories at the business class, even though the curtains are cordoned off but you will still see pax trying to open the curtain & going through without being discovered.

[inix]

To be honest, some of the posts here just reminds me of the class divide. Thank god I'm not on the receiving end..

[inix]

The top ranks should know that to the average man, SQ's suites toilets just look like business class toilets. Since suites are supposed to be a class beyond 1st class and 1st class is above business. This toilet, being seen as only business class standards, is way below par. That's why the man was angry for being scolded. If he had used a toilet with golden seats and taps with showers etc, he might have that the scolding was worth it.

For golden toilets, we need to learn from the Bruneians probably

[j.lin]

makes me wonder what happened to the Singapore Girls of yore.

They are gone......long ago.....

[SQ Queen]

It's really a travesty of justice that this fellow has not been prosecuted for criminal trespass. If his own story is true, he violated the rights of passengers who paid a lot of money to have lavatories available and he should be punished for violating their rights.

What I find more interesting is the crew behaviour - staring him down etc.

If a passenger needs to be enlightened, there is a more professional way to deliver. It brings to mind one incident where my foot protruded slightly out to the ailse & almost tripped the flight attendant.

The prolonged glare I received, despite my profuse apologies, makes me wonder what happened to the Singapore Girls of yore.

[FlyBoy]

No fantasy land mate, basically the dude was sick, and needed a toilet pronto. It was a one off. You have extrapolated the rest as I have made no reference to economy passengers having rights to business / first food etc which you have somehow presumed.

It's a restricted zone in terms of ticketing, it's not like the dude crossed into Area 51.

Ticketing = Using the toilet in your cabin that you have paid for. Which most decent airlines enforce and should continue to enforce

Oh yeah a "one off" I wonder how many people pull the "I really need the toilet desperately" routine in order so they don't wait.

All these people with all these "stomach bugs"

Perhaps they should maintain better personal hygiene and eat in more reputable locations. That or wear a nappy!

[ozdude]

Ummm they are restricted zone and as for "be treated with respect" seriously that is rubbish.

If we go off your fantasy land way of thinking, then people in Economy are not being treated with respect so they can use the Suites, and have the food/beverage of Business, First, Suites, or whatever they want as they are no being treated with respect...

Yeh right

No fantasy land mate, basically the dude was sick, and needed a toilet pronto. It was a one off. You have extrapolated the rest as I have made no reference to economy passengers having rights to business / first food etc which you have somehow presumed.

It's a restricted zone in terms of ticketing, it's not like the dude crossed into Area 51.

[FlyBoy]

3 pages of poo talk. lovely

And it's only now starting to go into talk of "explosive poo"

[FlyBoy]

Liquid poo is never fun, if he did have an emergency sometimes all you can do is run to any available toilet. I am sure it's not just me who has burst into my apartment and removed pants and sat down at the same time with a huge sigh of relief. If I had to ask permission to do that I would have been in trouble.

Economy, business, first, whatever, we are not talking about breaking into restricted zones, we are human beings and should be treated with respect. Unless the guy was being rude and ungrateful there is no reason for someone to follow him back to his seat and standover him.

I've flown business a few times at my own cost as a present to myself, I hope I never bump into some of the elite attitudes shown in this thread.

Ummm they are restricted zone and as for "be treated with respect" seriously that is rubbish.

If we go off your fantasy land way of thinking, then people in Economy are not being treated with respect so they can use the Suites, and have the food/beverage of Business, First, Suites, or whatever they want as they are no being treated with respect...

Yeh right