Wicked PAPee Turned Off Drinking Water Fountain @ Budget Terminal

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to last Saturday's letter by Mr Thomas Hwang, 'Budget air: Changi shouldn't turn off tap'.
I agree with him that 'budget airlines do not have to earn extra revenue selling bottled water on board'.
I recently flew on Firefly, the budget airline of Malaysia Airlines, from Terengganu to Singapore, and was pleasantly surprised that passengers were served with a cup of orange juice and a muffin - free of charge.
If a Malaysian budget airline can do that to please its customers, surely other budget airlines flying out of Singapore can do the same?
Perhaps our home-based budget airline Tiger Airways would like to try it out.
Rosemary Lee (Ms)

 

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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=heading>Latest comments</TD></TR><TR><TD id=messageDisplayRegion width="100%"><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=Post cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>any cheaper way to fly you have to use the balcony
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: urasti07 at Mon Aug 24 10:06:18 SGT 2009
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=AlternatePost cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>How can they switch off water fountain because airlines asked for it?

The water fountain was installed as a convenience since the ICAO LAG ruling came into effect
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: phandoko at Mon Aug 24 09:41:01 SGT 2009
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=Post cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>this I agree that the CAAS who runs the Terminals should NOT turn off the drinking fountain water inside the waiting room - even if requesred by the budget airlines - as its the airport's service for pax whom they pay not cheap by any means for airport taxes - which is at now about $24 for T1 and T2.
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: betweenus777 at Sun Aug 23 12:13:45 SGT 2009
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=AlternatePost cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>aiyooo... like that also complain... there are 2 options:
1) You can go to the washroom and take tap water mah
2) Assume that your airticket is $3 more lor, hence treat it as you get a free bottle of mineral water on board...

$3 also so stingy
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: travelersg at Sat Aug 22 13:00:52 SGT 2009
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=Post cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Maybe it was down for servicing? In Singapore they don't usually off the machines (like in other countries), but usually remove the machine instead....so no complaints.
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: code22xx at Sat Aug 22 10:06:21 SGT 2009
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