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**ycp81** · 16 July 2011, 10:22 PM

Pigging out time in Phuket

**ycp81** · 16 July 2011, 10:45 PM

And for the return

03 July 2011
Tiger Airways
TR 2155
Phuket (HKT) - Singapore (SIN)
A320
9V-TAT
Budget Class

Check-in at the "new" Terminal 2, which is just basically a small check-in hall with more counters. We would still need to walk to Terminal 1 to clear immigration and security.

Tiger opened 2 desks for check-in.

Departure area with lots of shops selling overpriced items.

Our flight would be departing from Gate 5 with a STD of 1930hrs....

which was later changed to 1950hrs. Thats Tiger again. Luckily delay was not too long this time round.

Boarding the newer 9V-TAT. 5 cabin crew onboard, inclusive of 1 trainee crew. There was also a Korean crew. Looks like the Korean gals are still flying for Tiger.

Silkair A319 beside us, also to SIN. Our A320 was choc-a-block while the MI flight was definitely not too full judging by the number of pax waiting at the gate. Looks like lots of holiday makers still go for the cheaper fares on short trips.

9V-TAT is a much newer plane and equipped with leather seats. Also felt cleaner than the inbound flight. But legroom is still bad as expected.

First time seeing this onboard a flight.

Seat pocket materials. Magazine was a new issue.

**ycp81** · 16 July 2011, 10:58 PM

MI flight pushing back, and it was supposed to depart later than us!

Further delay while a mix-up was being sorted out. 2 pairs of passengers were assigned the same seats. A Pacific Blue B738 beside.

Finally pushed back after a 45min delay. Flight time of 1hr20min again at 36000ft. Taxi past a Air Asia A320.

Takeoff from Rwy09.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RaCFzCybyw

Tiger girls conducting buy-on-board service.

Again, sales were not too bad. But I did not purchase anything.

Landing at Changi Rwy20C. We arrived about 30min late.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu0wi_3lHU8

Taxi to Budget Terminal.

Disembarking. The plane looks clean on the outside.

On the tarmac.

2 delays on Tiger on 2 flights, not too good. On the other hand, the tickets were cheap and so did not expect much. I will be doing another short trip to KL on Tiger and Jetstar in the next 2 days. Further report to come.

**flyguy** · 20 July 2011, 11:24 AM

Tiger's older planes esp the 1st few ones all looks like 9V-TAB with its seat covers so worned off and interior yellowish cabin lights and loose seat pockets and frayed carpeting. Tiger should have replaced the very worn seat covers and minor refurbishment of the interior as if one gets on oneof these older planes, the perception of Tiger will go down. Just took 9V-TAB to KUL on 18/7.

**ycp81** · 21 July 2011, 04:50 PM

2 weeks after Phuket, I made a short 32hrs weekend getway to Kuala Lumpur. Tickets bought just slightly more than a week before departure was only S$40 on Tiger to KL and RM85 (or S$35) back to SIN on Jetstar. A great deal! More pictures and videos to do the talking.

17 July 2011
Tiger Airways
TR 2454
Singapore (SIN) - Kuala Lumpur (KUL)
A320
9V-TAT
Budget Class

At Tiger land again.

Thankfully, the flight is not delayed this time round.

Flying on 9V-TAT again 2 weeks after my last flight on her.

Boarding TAT.

SEAir A319 arriving from Manila Clark. Air China B763 taking off behind.

Cebu Pacific A320 also arrived from Manila.

SQ A380 taking off.

Pushing back from Tiger land.

SQ B773ER lifting off.

Star livery SQ B772 holding on Rwy20C.

**ycp81** · 21 July 2011, 05:10 PM

MH B734 taking off before us, heading to KUL too I guess.

Next up, QF A380 to Sydney.

Lots of planes queuing up behind us too.

Finally the Tiger is next to depart after the Lion. About 15-20min of waiting for departure.

Takeoff from Changi Rwy20C for the 35min hop to KUL. Nice scenery after takeoff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0e8_-TVIbM

Marina Bay Sands and downtown Singapore in the distance.

Sentosa island and harbour area.

Climbing and heading into Johor after making a u-turn.

Announcement after seatbelt signs were switched off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDWlxVm705Q

First, immigration cards were distributed. Then the all gals cabin crew (1 Singaporean, 1 PRC and 2 Filipinos) came down with the BOB menu to take orders for snacks and drinks. Orders were then delivered from the galley. Guess it is more efficient for such a short flight than pushing the whole trolley down the aisle. Duty-free items were then offered for sale. Not many takers for the on-board sales though.

Nice weather for flying.

In between 2 layers of clouds.

**ycp81** · 21 July 2011, 05:31 PM

Blue skies

After a quick 15min cruise, we started our descent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ydDlo4oXuA

Speedbrakes up.

Nice scenery into KL.

Civilisation in sight.

Flaps down.

Final approach, with lots of plantations below.

Landing in Kuala Lumpur Rwy14L, 15min behind schedule due to long queues for departure and holding prior to landing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWBOSVzwZJA

Taxi to LCCT, passing the KLIA main terminal.

Parked at Air Asia land, LCCT.

Disembarking.

Last look at TAT while walking to immigrations.

Short flight, relatively on-time, no frills. Well worth the $40 i guess.

**ycp81** · 21 July 2011, 08:23 PM

Gaining my kilos in KL

18 July 2011
Jetstar Asia
3K 688
Kuala Lumpur (KUL) - Singapore (SIN)
A320
9V-JSC
Budget Class

Jetstar departs from the KLIA main terminal, a much welcome from the overcrowded LCCT terminal. Check-in desks at rows right at the end of the terminal. 3 desks opened for check-in. Check-in was handled by Malaysia Airlines ground staff.

However was surprised to find out that the flight was delayed by 2hrs!! Reason given, "operational reasons". No meal vouchers given for the delay. And I was not informed of the delay prior to departing for the airport. Well, I did received a SMS, but it was informing me of a delay for a flight departing from Perth, which I was not supposed to be flying on. Guess the automated system that sends messages screwed up. (Well, I tried to get my "customer guarantee" voucher via their call center but was rejected flatly as "I have been notified via SMS of the delay". It was a wrong SMS for goodness sake! Wrote in to feedback and is still waiting for their reply..)

**ycp81** · 21 July 2011, 08:38 PM

Jetstar issues proper boarding passes now instead of supermarket receipts.

KLIA has an area just after immigration with lots of model planes!

My flight would be departing from the satellite terminal.

The "rainforest" in the middle of the terminal.

With compliments of my Maybank Horizon Platinum credit card (and having charged my air-tickets to it), I was able to access the Plaza Premium Lounge to while away the time waiting for the delayed flight. Other passengers were not so lucky and have to make do with loitering around the terminal. The lounge is also used by Lufthansa, KLM, Royal Brunei and Japan Airlines Business Class passengers.

Salads selection.

Choices of hot food. Not bad.

Alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, juices, ice-cream, coffee/tea.

Fruits and some flight bites.

View of the lounge.

Proceeded to the gate at around 2250hrs. The plane has just arrived.

Plane was 9V-JSC with Valuair titles too. Flew on this plane once many years back.

Finally boarded the flight. Immigration forms were handed out by a crew near the door. Load was about 60-70%.

**ycp81** · 21 July 2011, 09:02 PM

At the gate awaiting pushback.

Surprisingly the seat pitch (at row 10) was actually quite decent. The last time I flew on this plane, I remembered the seat pitch being very tight. I was sitting near the rear of the plane then. This plane was not retrofitted and still has 30 rows (180 seats). Anyone can confirm that the seat pitch gets tighter towards the rear of the plane?

Reading materials in seat pocket. The magazine was "well read" (aka tattered and torn).

I was impressed with their onboard menu, especially the choiced of hot meals for longer flights.

More choices!

And lots of beverages too!

View towards the rear of cabin. Quite a number of empty seats.

Safety demo prior to pushback. According to the captain, the flight was delayed due to one aircraft down for maintenance. He did apologize for the delay though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C30LKtsitjE

MH new A333s. 2 of them were parked on the remote bays. Why is MH not flying them?

Finally took off from Rwy14R for the 35min flight to Singapore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcaJV1nk6wQ

Visit to the lav, which is relatively clean. And it has both paper towels and facial tissues!

Cabin crew conducted the BOB service in a similar way to Tiger, ie walking down the aisle with the food menu and duty-free mag.

Cabin view from the rear.

After a very short while, we began descending into Changi.

Landing on Rwy20R with very heavy thrust reversers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-D_M7mJdJ8

Parked at the gate beside a KLM B773ER. Due to the delayed arrival, there were no more public transport and I had to incur a hefty cab fare plus midnight surcharges!! Not good!!

Other than the long delay, the Jetstar flight was fine for a short sector.

Next up, another Jetstar flight in 2 wks time to Auckland. First long-haul experience on a budget airline! Comments on the report are much welcomed.

**slacker** · 22 July 2011, 02:19 PM

Opps, I was on the same flight as you, 3K688. I do receive tat wrong msg, luckily I went to check the flight status at an Apple Store w free internet access

Hmm, maybe I should raise a claim as well.

**ycp81** · 22 July 2011, 04:22 PM

Originally posted by slacker View Post

Opps, I was on the same flight as you, 3K688. I do receive tat wrong msg, luckily I went to check the flight status at an Apple Store w free internet access

Hmm, maybe I should raise a claim as well.

Haha, were u caught in any of my fotos?

**ycp81** · 22 July 2011, 09:32 PM

Latest update, one of Jetstar's Singapore manager called me today and offered his apologies as well as the "customer guarantee" voucher. Apparently someone in the company read my same trip report in either airliners.net or flyertalk. Good service recovery here.

**slacker** · 24 July 2011, 11:54 AM

Originally posted by ycp81 View Post

Haha, were u caught in any of my fotos?

haha, maybe a small portion of my head? My travel partner and I were seated on the left side of Row 19.

I visited the Plaza Premium Lounge as well, but we were not being captured

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