Just booked on this flight. 5 passengers booked into the flight but 1 of them didn't select their seats. Apparently in terms of suite size row 1 > row 2 > row 3. Is this the best choice available or would row 3 be more private?
The immigration lines at Frankfurt Airport are now hundreds of people deep, starting from the security checkpoint of the A gates all the way up to the immigration counter. The wait takes hours.
Alternative route: remain in the Schengen area of the airport, and take the foot tunnel to the schengen B gates, B1-19. There is an alternative checkpoint to the B20-xx area. After passing the checkpoint you can proceed by bus to the non-schengen gates of Zone B. This saves at least 40 minutes of waiting and gives you more time in the lounge.
28M here craving the buffet at Haidilao Piccadilly but unfortunately they don't seat tables of 1. It's 36.99+service all you can eat. Looking for more hungry people to eat the place down.
If no one else responds and you can't afford to pay I would be happy to cover your meal.
I'm craving the buffet at Haidilao Piccadilly but unfortunately they don't seat tables of 1. It's 29.99+service all you can eat. Looking for more hungry people to eat the place down. Seatings are for 90 minutes anytime between 11am-5pm.
At a JW Marriott somewhere in Asia. Saw a Eastern European (idk, slavic sounding) dude carrying a toddler around the buffet spread showing him the food. Kid's muddy shoes were dangling inches above open containers of food. That struck me as pretty disgusting, so I went up to him and asked if he could stay slightly further away from the food so that the kid's feet didn't get so close. Just for that he got mad at me and basically told me to f off.
Once he got mad I didn't bother sticking around talking to him (and I wasn't about to eat stuff that had a foot waving above it) so I just left and had my breakfast in a convenience store. Am I the asshole and did I overreact?
If you don't fly long haul, flying enough to get TPPS is *punishing* - imagine something like 20 round trips to Hong Kong or 25 to Hanoi in a single year...
Actually, even 4 rt SIN-FRA/LHR a year is pretty bad, how many dental xrays is that radiation exposure equivalent to?
I can't imagine anyone enjoys flying at that point.
Was recently on a flight to/from Japan... the number of solitaire-tagged bags coming out onto the belt was extraordinary. One might think the vast majority of the J cabin is PPS.
Are there other such routes with such a large number of frequent flyers besides Japan and London? On the other extreme, are there routes with very few frequent flyer passengers?
A little bit of a rant here but as a frequent flyer between Asia and Europe, the lack of WiFi coverage with SITAOnAir over India, Turkey and Iran is becoming extremely annoying. The flight path for a typical FRA - SIN route means that you have coverage for maybe 2 hours after takeoff, after which it cuts off and only really resumes after leaving Indian airspace, 3 hours before landing.
Naturally, this is quite appalling for anyone who wishes to stay connected and/or up to date with work while in the air, especially on these business travel heavy routes. Fortunately the A380 will be upgraded to starlink soon (but not soon enough!) and the A350MH doesn't really fly to those problematic regions, but for the 777-300ER it really depends on the luck of the draw whether you get a Panasonic-equipped aircraft with full coverage over the route...
p.s. to those saying a lot of people are using wifi because its free, you're missing the point. the problem I'm pointing out is that over large parts of the flight path to Europe, *0* people are able to use wifi, because it just isn't available because it is outside of SITAOnAir's coverage area.
Latest one is from this month... it's starting to become really, really lonely at the top.
The stock has been continually diluted and reverse split since it listed and the number of shares outstanding is likely in the millions at this point... more than a week ago there was a filing showing a single entity holding more than 2m shares, so good luck if you believe the float is only ~800k.
Very curious why Indians are willing to pay more for fuel and gas because of the conflict in the Middle East - even more willing than Israel, it seems. Why?
Source: Ipsos (https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-04/attitudes-to-the-iran-conflict-ipsos-global-advisor-april-2026.pdf)
Cruises are nothing but container ships for human bodies where people are served crap food catered by the same companies as schools and prisons and entertained by citizens of the third world under exploitative contracts. Cruises enabled massive superspreading in the early stages of viruses including the recent Hantavirus outbreak. If you are stuck on a cruise during such an outbreak, you have fewer rights and treatment options compared to someone on dry land. It is simply unimaginable why people would pay good money to stay in a floating prison under the flag of convenience of a country that effectively has no ability to enforce their laws or guarantee the rights of those on board.
Nothing beats a nice hotel breakfast with hot chai while reading a copy of the Hindustan Times and thinking of how to pwn sinkies...
Jokes aside, I am making my annual pilgrimage to the big APAC bosses in a certain South Asian country we all love... the office here in Gurgaon is huge, this is where all your jobs are y'all. And yes, we will be discussing headcount reductions for sinkies :)
The Workplace Fairness Act goes into effect next year, but does nothing to remedy the problem of entire villages coming over to displace Singaporeans. It merely restates the existing bureaucratic framework regarding the posting of job advertisements on a web portal no one actually gets hired from.
This is wayang to the max, completely no bite to this legislation, the only thing it does is try to give an illusion of helping tackle unfairness in hiring.
"We have to prioritize Singaporeans when right sizing headcount because they can always get a new job right, our foreign colleagues will lose their EP."
we're fked
guess which country my boss is from
Well, my post was removed from r/sg because apparently it's better received at other places, even though it got nearly 500 likes and 60 comments in 2 hours. I guess now it belongs here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/1t0dktk/why_is_it_this_18yearold_frenchman_a_teen_while/
Original post below:
I scrolled past much coverage on the straw licking Frenchman and one of the first things I noticed was how mainstream media invariably calls him a "teen". I found that quite interesting, because I distinctly recall many previous articles calling Singaporean teenagers "men". And lo and behold, there is no shortage of articles where SG teens as young as 16 suspected of crimes are called "men" and "women".
Of course, one can say the choice of words in each of these articles is a matter of journalistic/artistic expression on the part of the reporters. But one may also question whether this is the result of a subtle, conscious bias deep in our minds.
One last thought about the case. It seems that he is in ESSEC Business School, which to my (undoubtedly limited) knowledge offers bachelors degrees at their lowest level (curiously, as u/DuePomegranate points out, this university is also referred to as his "school" in media coverage, maybe to make him sound even younger).
Unless this student started really early, at 18 years old he would almost certainly have a year or two left in his course of study to fulfill graduation requirements (which is the justification provided for his overseas travel while on bail). I do not see why he has to go for this trip now. The interests of justice should surely gravitate towards allowing him to defer this part of his graduation requirements till after his legal issues have been definitively settled in Singapore.
"17-year-old woman":
"17-year-old man":
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/two-arrested-for-attempting-to-pawn-fake-gold-bars