Over the recent national holiday, coupled with 2 days of vacation leave, I flew up to Japan again, this time to the resort island of Okinawa. Flights were booked on China Airlines, which currently offers the fastest and cheapest routing from Singapore (via Taipei), though Jetstar will be launching non-stop flights from Singapore from November. This was also my first ever flight on this Skyteam carrier.
China Airlines, with 3 flights a day from SIN (2x daily to Taipei, daily to Surabaya), departs from Terminal 3. Check-in at Row 11, which is the last row of the terminal. Expecting a full flight, there was however hardly any queues.
Proper coloured boarding passes issued, including the continuation to Naha, Okinawa.
Straight through immigration. The morning peak has passed and thus the terminal was not too crowded. SQ A380 at the gate, with a Jet Airways A330 arriving shortly.
Our aircraft arrived on scheduled from Surabaya. The aircraft had operated TPE-SIN-SUB the day before, night-stopped in SUB and operating today's SUB-SIN-TPE sector.
Gate A13 for our flight.
CI's oldest, but still very well-maintained, A330-300 aircraft would be operating the flight.
A very packed boarding gate signalling a full flight. Quite a number of passengers were transiting from Surabaya. Boarding started soon and priorities/boarding groups were enforced.
09 August 2017
China Airlines
CI 752
Singapore (SIN) - Taipei Taoyuan (TPE)
A330-300
B-18301
Economy Class
Flight Time: 4H22M
Boarding the aircraft. A newspaper cart was available at the door.
Welcomed by the crew and directed to the correct aisle. A pillow and blanket was placed on each seat.
As most of CI's A330s are still equipped with the older generation of seats, it felt like stepping back into the 90s when boarding the aircraft. However, the cabin and seats were still very clean and well-maintained. Definitely did not felt like a 13+ years old aircraft.
China Airlines, with 3 flights a day from SIN (2x daily to Taipei, daily to Surabaya), departs from Terminal 3. Check-in at Row 11, which is the last row of the terminal. Expecting a full flight, there was however hardly any queues.
Proper coloured boarding passes issued, including the continuation to Naha, Okinawa.
Straight through immigration. The morning peak has passed and thus the terminal was not too crowded. SQ A380 at the gate, with a Jet Airways A330 arriving shortly.
Our aircraft arrived on scheduled from Surabaya. The aircraft had operated TPE-SIN-SUB the day before, night-stopped in SUB and operating today's SUB-SIN-TPE sector.
Gate A13 for our flight.
CI's oldest, but still very well-maintained, A330-300 aircraft would be operating the flight.
A very packed boarding gate signalling a full flight. Quite a number of passengers were transiting from Surabaya. Boarding started soon and priorities/boarding groups were enforced.
09 August 2017
China Airlines
CI 752
Singapore (SIN) - Taipei Taoyuan (TPE)
A330-300
B-18301
Economy Class
Flight Time: 4H22M
Boarding the aircraft. A newspaper cart was available at the door.
Welcomed by the crew and directed to the correct aisle. A pillow and blanket was placed on each seat.
As most of CI's A330s are still equipped with the older generation of seats, it felt like stepping back into the 90s when boarding the aircraft. However, the cabin and seats were still very clean and well-maintained. Definitely did not felt like a 13+ years old aircraft.
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