Over the Good Friday long weekend holidays, I went on a rest and relax trip to nearby Bali, flying on one of the rare but long-surviving 5th freedom short-haul flights from Singapore, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines's SIN-DPS route. Some of the benefits of such 5th freedom routes is that you would be able to fly on a full-service airline at prices comparable to the local budget airlines. For the long weekend, KLM's prices were actually even cheaper than the likes of AirAsia, Tiger and Jetstar, while offering all the frills. Its Business Class fare was also lower than SQ Economy on the same dates!
Fast forward to departure day, boarding passes were DIY printed at the self-check-in machines and bags were dropped off at Terminal One.
Through immigration for some plane spotting. Our aircraft had just arrived from Amsterdam and taxiing in.
One of the rarer visitor into Changi, Air Mauritius A330.
Boarding would be from D34. With the expectedly full flight on this 408-seater B777-300ER, there was a long queue at the gate security. However it moved fast.
KLM's second newest B773ER aircraft would be flying us on the continuation flight to Bali. Expectedly, the flight was very full and it seemed that 75% of passengers were transiting from Amsterdam.
13 April 2017
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
KL 835
Singapore (SIN) - Denpasar Bali (DPS)
B777-300ER
PH-BVR
Economy Class
Flight Time: 2H06M
Boarding was called and was conducted very orderly with at least 3 gate agents ensuring that boarding procedures were followed. Was welcomed at the aircraft door by very pleasant crew.
Fast forward to departure day, boarding passes were DIY printed at the self-check-in machines and bags were dropped off at Terminal One.
Through immigration for some plane spotting. Our aircraft had just arrived from Amsterdam and taxiing in.
One of the rarer visitor into Changi, Air Mauritius A330.
Boarding would be from D34. With the expectedly full flight on this 408-seater B777-300ER, there was a long queue at the gate security. However it moved fast.
KLM's second newest B773ER aircraft would be flying us on the continuation flight to Bali. Expectedly, the flight was very full and it seemed that 75% of passengers were transiting from Amsterdam.
13 April 2017
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
KL 835
Singapore (SIN) - Denpasar Bali (DPS)
B777-300ER
PH-BVR
Economy Class
Flight Time: 2H06M
Boarding was called and was conducted very orderly with at least 3 gate agents ensuring that boarding procedures were followed. Was welcomed at the aircraft door by very pleasant crew.
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