JFK Singapore Airlines First Class Check-in and T4

SQ 25 JFK-FRA

The JFK Ground Experience, aka... How can a such a great in flight airline be so horse crap on the ground?
SQ needs to do some serious reflection on the entire JFK ground experience, which dismayed me and brought Mrs. SFO to question my sanity and why the hell we aren't flying LH? I believe her words were "we left a day early and stopped in NY for this crap, when we could have flown LH nonstop?"

Our Dial 7 driver dropped us off at T-4 at approximately 6:15p after a 75 minute rush hour trek. The need for all pax to schlep bags from check-in to baggage screening caused a line that one needed to "cut" to get to the First Class counter. After tagging, a porter took our checked bags and hauled them away presumably to security, although I did ask the check-in agent whether he was supposed to take them.

Then it was off to the VS Clubhouse, where I hoped to relive my great experience of a couple years ago. The Clubhouse dragon has a list of SQ First pax and we were welcomed to the lounge. Unfortunately, there were so many people in the lounge, that we couldn't find any open seating pairs other than in the closet alcove at the back of the lounge, where the AC was working overtime and CNN was a loud annoyance.

After a quick scouting trip, we moved to the relative tranquility of the LX Lounge... much more relaxing but minus the service of the Clubhouse with clearly lesser business class offerings.

Can LX find any cheaper booze??

I checked back twice at the VS Clubhouse but nothing had changed... overcrowded with no acceptable pair seats available.