Food Galore Over SYD, with GA as the Highlight...

[slacker]

They do serve the cup noodles with porcelain, on porcelain plate for the noodles' cup...

The porcelain plate isn't that obvious as the porcelain bowl

Feel that the presentation of the cup noodles could be better; but at the end of the day, it is just a cup noodles.

I my memory's served me right, they just collected the card, and let pax get through...
Thanks mate for reading...

Hmm... wonder if there are pple who tried to exploit this loophole or if the loophole has been tightened.

U r welcome, and hope to read more of your trip reports in the future.

[UMD]

Aiyoooh.... just knew it...
"Kampung guy" never has good cheeses at his "kampung"...
Must bring cheese connoisseur Kyo++ for cheeses shopping down under...
Thanks mate for reading...

The day this "Kampung guy"'s Kampung has good cheeses, we will all probably call these dairy curds "Keju".

[UMD]

I don't think so, as the shot was taken at PK-GFC...
GMC also have the same thing though...

Interesting and thanks for the info.

I have always thought that all PK-GF*s had the C seats with no seatback storage bin as they join the fleet much later after some of the few first PK-GM*. I remembered noticing the difference the first time I stepped on PK-GF* registered aircraft.

It seems that all the new aircraft that join later have the C seats with no seatback bin. I was on PK-GMU a month back and it has the same C seats with no seatback bin.

[Dent@SUB]

The "other" Singapore Airlines I read about in Airways.

Has significant Singaporean investors.

Maintains air services to Australian outback.

There's no replacement to the SAAB 340s they operate in the horizon

Loving your TR

Just knew it from your info, never heard about this airlines before..
Thanks Sir for the info and for reading...
Btw, I miss you TRs, Sir...

2A? 52A maybe. 2A is blast-off's regular seat la.

I heard he has moved his throne to 1A to give a way for our Grand Dame SQFG at 2A...

Nice recovery. The engines on that thing were already stopped in a death dive and he managed to get them re-lit at 500' agl with that remark

Hey... I'm a good survival here...

Thanks mate for reading...

Nice TR, Dent@SUB.

Thanks mate...

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but King Islands Dairy cheeses are some of the best in the world. You should take a flight down to King Island next time and see for yourself

Maybe King Island DO...

(Okay, so Mainland Cheese isn't)

Aiyoooh.... just knew it...
"Kampung guy" never has good cheeses at his "kampung"...
Must bring cheese connoisseur Kyo++ for cheeses shopping down under...
Thanks mate for reading...

[Dent@SUB]

.....
This is actually claimed as flat bed as well with 74 inch seat pitch. The ones installed on its older A333s are the angled lie flat with only 54 inch pitch.

It's still have angle with the floor, not 180...
But it's damn more comfortable than the 180 degree angle...

Food portion is definitely much bigger now but the presentation still needs to be improved. I have heard the roll out of the individual plating of main course has been successful for the HKG flight so it should soon be rolled out to all medium to long haul destinations.

Also, GA has made one more change to its glassware. There is a new water tumbler now which is shorter and wider but quite nice.

Good to hear that...
With that, the presentation can be improved a lot than with this "boat style" casserole...
Thanks mate for reading and also for the info

Nice Dent@SUB
May I know the registration of the aircraft that took you from CGK to SUB? I realized that the executive class seatback was slightly different than some other GA 738? I ever saw something like this:

All the C seats on PK-GF* do not have the seatback storage bin.

I don't think so, as the shot was taken at PK-GFC...
GMC also have the same thing though...

Never notice this before... I just sit on row one or waaayyyyy back there so couldn't see the back of the J seats...
Maybe the one with Boeing Sky Interior get this kind of seat??

I just realised that GA 738 Y Class is using the Airbelt (at least in the bulkhead seats), but actually is that really necessary?

Overall, great TR, and yeah i'd rather fly with PK GPM/N/O than PK GPJ/K/L/I

Since the new seats were introduced, I saw this airbelt there...
And I dunno what this airbelt for to...
Thanks mate for reading....

Nice trip report! Thanks!

hmm.. they didn't serve cup noodles in a porcelain like wat SQ does in J?

They do serve the cup noodles with porcelain, on porcelain plate for the noodles' cup...

I wonder what are the measures to close any loophole here.

If I wish to smuggle someone who is barred from entering Indonesia, I could pass the clearance card to the person so he may enter Indonesia, and I just need to pass through Immigration again at the Airport.

Are there any checks again at CGK for those who hold the clearance card, to determine if the person is holding the clearance card legitimately?

I my memory's served me right, they just collected the card, and let pax get through...
Thanks mate for reading...

[Kyo]

Done with the main course, now it's time for the cheese...
Well, it's not artisan cheeses, but it's still OK...
GA has room for improvement in this cheese section...

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but King Islands Dairy cheeses are some of the best in the world. You should take a flight down to King Island next time and see for yourself

Maybe King Island DO...

(Okay, so Mainland Cheese isn't)

[egondo]

All the C seats on PK-GF* do not have the seatback storage bin.

I don't think so, as the shot was taken at PK-GFC...
GMC also have the same thing though...

[StarG]

Nice TR, Dent@SUB.

[UMD]

Nice Dent@SUB
May I know the registration of the aircraft that took you from CGK to SUB? I realized that the executive class seatback was slightly different than some other GA 738? I ever saw something like this:

All the C seats on PK-GF* do not have the seatback storage bin.

[SQflyergirl]

Look at those SQFlyergirl's fav, EK B77W... Was our Grand Dame SQFlyergirl onboard that plane sitting at 2A??

2A? 52A maybe. 2A is blast-off's regular seat la.

You're in BIG trouble. 1st you don't pay her royalties now you call her 'old'....

Hahaha.... not "old"... just "Grand"....

Nice recovery. The engines on that thing were already stopped in a death dive and he managed to get them re-lit at 500' agl with that remark

[9V-SIA]

The "other" Singapore Airlines I read about in Airways.

Has significant Singaporean investors.

Maintains air services to Australian outback.

There's no replacement to the SAAB 340s they operate in the horizon

Loving your TR

[slacker]

Nice trip report! Thanks!

hmm.. they didn't serve cup noodles in a porcelain like wat SQ does in J?

The line on the immigration was horrible... so loooooongggg....
Luckily they have cleared the immigration onboard...

They went through an empty side line, and gave the clearance card to the officer there.... and there they go... direct to the luggage claim area...

I wonder what are the measures to close any loophole here.

If I wish to smuggle someone who is barred from entering Indonesia, I could pass the clearance card to the person so he may enter Indonesia, and I just need to pass through Immigration again at the Airport.

Are there any checks again at CGK for those who hold the clearance card, to determine if the person is holding the clearance card legitimately?

[dennisandara]

He gave his seat for his nephew, and went to seat 5C...

I just realised that GA 738 Y Class is using the Airbelt (at least in the bulkhead seats), but actually is that really necessary?

Overall, great TR, and yeah i'd rather fly with PK GPM/N/O than PK GPJ/K/L/I

[egondo]

Nice Dent@SUB
May I know the registration of the aircraft that took you from CGK to SUB? I realized that the executive class seatback was slightly different than some other GA 738? I ever saw something like this:

[UMD]

When he came back to his seat, the "Kopi Tubruk" has albeady on his table along with a Ferrero Rocher Chocolate...

OK... lets we talk about this "Kopi Tubruk"..

Kopi Tubruk is an Indonesian-style coffee where coarse coffee grounds are boiled along with solid sugar (a lot of it), resulting in a thick, mud like (light thin mud) concoction...
To drink it, the coffee need to be left for a while, until thick coffee coarse powder settled to the bottom, and left the dark, sweet light concoction in the upper part.
Kopi tubruk literally means “collision coffee”. The concoction can be found in many parts of Indonesia, particularly in Java and Bali. Kopi tubruk is the simplest recipe for preparing coffee. To make a cup, one needs to add two teaspoons of ground coffee and sugar according to one’s taste.
Next, pour in boiling water, and let it “cook” the coffee for a while until most of the grounds have settled to the bottom.
The key to proper kopi tubruk is in the water. Hot water from water dispensers is often not hot enough to cook the coffee grounds. Uncooked grounds will remain floating on the surface.
And the GA's FA made a damn good one...

I have never had "kopi Tubruk" before and thanks for the lesson on how to drink it.

Even though the bed only angle lay flat, but somehow this bed felt more comfortable than the flat bed on the inbound flight...

This is actually claimed as flat bed as well with 74 inch seat pitch. The ones installed on its older A333s are the angled lie flat with only 54 inch pitch.

And another FA came with wines basket, offering the pax the wines they had on board...
This "kampung guy" asked for the chardonnay to accompany his meal...

Food portion is definitely much bigger now but the presentation still needs to be improved. I have heard the roll out of the individual plating of main course has been successful for the HKG flight so it should soon be rolled out to all medium to long haul destinations.

Also, GA has made one more change to its glassware. There is a new water tumbler now which is shorter and wider but quite nice.