All of this is a long way from Air New Zealand's Melbourne lounge, where the hot food selection (if one item can be called a selection), was at 9:30pm on a Wednesday prior to a Thai flight to Bangkok. When I queried this, I was told "oh, we follow Auckland timings (so you're not supposed to ...

I'm switching from EK to SQ, for various reasons (including, DXB sucks). From this article, I can see that I'll miss the EK lounges, with generally excellent food and service (especially in Singapore, ironically). Oh well, at least I won't have to fly through DXB any more (did I mention that DXB ...