Why would you fly between Singapore and KL?

[HUGE AL]

... as an international playboy!

Yeah, that boy sure does travel insanely...but with style!

[jhm]

checked in at Hilton for a few hours and my customer came around for an hour.
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The glamour of travel.....

... as an international playboy!

[Kyo]

I had a recent Doubletree PEK stay for 45 mins, so that's glamorous too!

Just enough time for a soak in a tub...

[MAN Flyer]

I would skip flying to KUL the moment a train does SIN - KUL Sentral in under 2 hours. But until the work actually begins and finishes, I would continue to fly.

What train does it in 2 hours, I thought it took about 6 ?. On a related note I see they recently settled the land issue with KTM and their station is moving up to Woodlands.

I had no option but to fly anyway. I was in Bangkok over the weekend and was flying home from SIN Monday night. As I needed to meet someone in KL at short notice I got the early TG flight, KLIA Ekspres to KL Sentral, checked in at Hilton for a few hours and my customer came around for an hour. I checked out 4 hours after arriving and got the KLIA Ekspress back to KUL for the 1845 SQ flight to Changi.

The glamour of travel.....

[inix]

I did it last night on an SQ 330 with J well under half full. I wonder how long before it's an all MI route...and before common sense prevails and there is a high speed rail link between the two cities.

My first ever flight on SQ was SIN-KUL on an A310....

I would skip flying to KUL the moment a train does SIN - KUL Sentral in under 2 hours. But until the work actually begins and finishes, I would continue to fly.

[SilverChris]

Not sure if there are any from KL sentral to Singapore, but you can catch a short cab ride to 1Utama from Sentral to catch Aeroline.com.my's service to Singapore. Forget puduraya.... it's a mess.

I thought puduraya is closed for now, so the other coaches go to Bukit jalil. Even more hassle there...

I did it last night on an SQ 330 with J well under half full. I wonder how long before it's an all MI route...and before common sense prevails and there is a high speed rail link between the two cities.

My first ever flight on SQ was SIN-KUL on an A310....

I think your flight is an exception of the usually full KUL runs, especially SQ119 where many are connecting at SIN.

[MAN Flyer]

I did it last night on an SQ 330 with J well under half full. I wonder how long before it's an all MI route...and before common sense prevails and there is a high speed rail link between the two cities.

My first ever flight on SQ was SIN-KUL on an A310....

[SQADL333]

I did this journey a long time ago when SQ still had the A310-300 on the run in Economy as well as the 777.It is more comfortable than any coach or even driving yourself if living in Singapore.

[Savage25]

Not sure if there are any from KL sentral to Singapore, but you can catch a short cab ride to 1Utama from Sentral to catch Aeroline.com.my's service to Singapore. Forget puduraya.... it's a mess.

Thanks. I figured when Snaffled posted earlier that his bus from Singapore got into Sentral, there must be some leaving from there as well.

[SQflyergirl]

Can someone point me to the bus services that leave from KL Sentral (not Puduraya) to Singapore? I probably need to do this in May.

Not sure if there are any from KL sentral to Singapore, but you can catch a short cab ride to 1Utama from Sentral to catch Aeroline.com.my's service to Singapore. Forget puduraya.... it's a mess.

[Savage25]

Can someone point me to the bus services that leave from KL Sentral (not Puduraya) to Singapore? I probably need to do this in May.

[milehighj]

Nowadays the speed cameras log Sing reg. cars directly to a database. In the good old days, for an informal "toll", the nice chaps who pull you over would even advise where else to slow down further into the journey...

[SQflyergirl]

Driving between SIn to KUL esp in making it just under 4 hrs may likely get one either one or two speeding tickets - and if one stays within the speed limit the total jave journey will still take like 6 hrs dorr to door.

It's a 110 km/h speed limit for 90+% of the journey.

With no jams it's not going to take 6 hours for a 350ish KM journey I'm afraid. In fact, I've never done it EVER in more than 4 hours (and I do this plenty much). And yes, I stick to the speed limit cause my company gets very cross with people who get fines driving fleet cars.

[flyguy]

well if one has a confirmed outboaund flight to KUL, one can arrive to check-in just 40 mins (preferably no luggage to check-in) and once in KLIA can take either the klia express train to town or taxi if going to subang/sunway which is just a 37 min drive.
Flying 1st class on SIN-KUL-SIN is not really an option as one gets usually the older regional biz class on SQ and even older biz seats on MH ageing A330s. But MH 1st class lounge is truly miles much better than SKA at T2. Driving between SIn to KUL esp in making it just under 4 hrs may likely get one either one or two speeding tickets - and if one stays within the speed limit the total jave journey will still take like 6 hrs dorr to door.

[SQflyergirl]

Perhaps you need to try the alternative route you suggested last year:

http://www.sqtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1050

The Romance of Travel indeed!

I shall one of these days. I think the 2 little fellas would enjoy it too.