CGK visit = LON SIN Do

[cawhite]

Thanks for a fun-filled evening last night Wx delays out of LHR and strong headwinds made for a slightly late arrival home. I'll be having a chat with someone at the hotel about your wait last evening.

PS -- Yay, Jenbel is on SQT!!!

[CGK]

First of all, warmest welcome to Jenbel and Sheep.
And here is my travel log for today.

Woke up very early, and left the hotel room with guttorm asleep. Decided to take Bakerloo Line and Hex to Heathrow. Smooth. Picked up my left bags, and went to the special desk for AA Premium Class. The check-in agent scolded me for not removing the luggage tags from my previous flights. Hmm SQ agent or even UA agent in this trip never complained about this old tags from previous flights. They would do it for me. And yeah, after I took them off, she even did not offer to throw them in the trash can.

Another news, my seat had been changed. But this time it's due to the equipment change. Yeah AA change it to the coffin-style. I think I do agree why people call them coffin-style.

My regret of flying AA continues. Hmm I should stick with StarAlliance. Yup, I have 3 bags to check-in, because ex- London you can only have one carry-on. And guess what? Even as an F pax, I have to pay for the third bag, and one of my bag more than 23kg. Thus AA charged me almost 60 quids for this.

Saw SQ check-in opens while walking towards the fast track. Wish I were on SQ. The line was pretty long.

[CGK]

Decided to go to SKL right away. Happy to be home. Yeah two attendants there were very caring. Gave me the T-mobile voucher. Offered the ice-cream. After awhile, the lovely cawhite arrived in style.
The monitor said AA137 boarding at Gate 20. I left about 11am. Once I was at the gate, it was announced that the flight delayed for 30 minutes. And agin, once aboard, due to the weather another one hour delayed. Fortunately, text messaging cawhite was possible. That was great. Warmed nuts and Pommery champagne was served. My individual tape player is not working. The FA seemed unhappy having to help me figuring out the machine. It looks like the tape plugged in by prevous pax stucked inside. This service is completely different then on one of LH F flight when the tape was stucked. In LH, the FA was really trying hard to fix the problem, and was successful. This time, on AA, he played around a bot, and it did not eject the tape, and he told me damaged. Sorry.

The coffin cabin feels like a biz class because of 2-2-2 config on 777. Well, and the patrons, as I had mentioned to some of you, definitely a different kind of people, not like UA crowd.

Okay, for lunch, there was 4 choices for the main entree. One of them was salmon which prepared by certain chef. I was asked for my choice first, and I pick the salmon. And guess what... only one salmon loaded into the plane. Very strange to have a special chef dish but only one loaded.

After lunch, I went to bed straight away. Woke up an hour prior landing. Arrived at 4:40pm, almost 2 hours late from scheduled. We had to walk very very far from AA Terminal to TBIT. Yeah, it was passed 4pm, thus the immigration and custroms facilities at AA terminal has been shut down. We had to use the regular immigration and customs at TBIT, thus explained the very long walk.

Immigration was a swift. But the bags were not in order. The carousel moved after 15 minutes, but no premium bags. My bags came out almost last. So I got off the area about 5:45pm, and my AC flight should depart at 6:10pm.

Decided to take UA RJs flight at 7:54pm instead. And guess what? It is delayed till 9pm at least. Bad weather in Vancouver. Yes, snowing. Hmm can't imagine now going home tonight. -1 Celcius, and I do not have any winter jacket with me.

Well, those are part of the travel. But the most important thing is I indeed had a great time in London with you guys. And looking forward to do more in the future.

And not to forget, looking forward to the first flight SQ334 next week.
Cheers!

[shortfinals]

Welcome Jenbel!

Sounds like everyone had a great time in LON!

[KeithMEL]

Sounds like another awesome Do. Glad everyone had fun.

[CGK]

My unlucky day goes on.
With the bad weather in YVR, the flight from LAX got delayed due to the late arrival from incoming flight, which is from YVR. Fortunately, I did not stick to AC557 which was delayed till 2am. I took UA 6428 on CRJ aircraft. Delayed about 75 minutes.

Arrived at YVR, everything was okay. But when getting off from the building, the taxi line was very long. It was very cold, and I had to wait one hour and 30 minutes before I got a taxi. It's amazing how the airport did not push more taxi out with this long wait. I know that driving on the snow is not something appealing for all those taxi drivers.

Oh well, I am cold now in my flat.

Once again, thank you for the great mini-Do. And I believe it was the first SQ Talk gathering.

[cawhite]

CGK, I"m glad you made it home. Please give the puppy a few big hugs & treats for me

Thanks again to all for a fun Saturday! And also to CGK for hosting me into the SKL F yeterday

[CGK]

The puppy is sleeping. He is in good shape. But I am sure he will be happy going back to the camp very soon.

Well, yesterday forgot to offer you the highly praises Singapore Sling ala SKL LHR which have gotten approval from jjpb3.

[jjpb3]

Well, yesterday forgot to offer you the highly praises Singapore Sling ala SKL LHR which have gotten approval from jjpb3.

High praise from me, definitely , but wasn't it a bit early to be knocking back slings, especially after all that champagne the night / early morning before?

[cawhite]

High praise from me, definitely , but wasn't it a bit early to be knocking back slings, especially after all that champagne the night / early morning before?

No, it wouldn't have been too early...

[jjpb3]

No, it wouldn't have been too early...

Not only pretty, but also has the right attitude towards life.

[Jenbel]

hair of the dog that bit....

remember we did leave her some champagne as a nightcap

[jjpb3]

hair of the dog that bit....

remember we did leave her some champagne as a nightcap

Now waiting for cawhite's comeback ...

[cawhite]

You left champagne?????

[CGK]

I was only able to gobble up 3 glasses of Pommery on my AA flight before going into deep sleep. But, on the CRJ plane up to YVR, I was the only pax ordering alcohol, i.e. gin & tonic, and the FA apologized for making it very strong. Yeah one bottle poured into small glass, and just a bit of tonic. Had two of them as my supper with UX box snacks.