I recently flew to Sydney (mid-January) to attend a conference, and then down to Melbourne to visit a friend and also visit the Australian Open (i am a huge tennis fan). We flew SIN-SYD, SYD-MEL and MEL-SIN. Initially, my travelling companion and i tried multiple ways of booking all 3 flights in a single itinerary when we confirmed our trip in mid-November. However, prices were already insane by then; a similar trend when booking Y tickets for my LHR trip last year. Prices for BA, SQ and QF flights booked on a single itinerary and even in separate blocks were above $1500 all-in. To cut a long and unnecessary story short, we ended up booking all our tickets one way on seperate itineraries: SIN-SYD on TR2, SYD-MEL on TT279 and MEL-SIN on SQ228, which cost a total of exactly SGD$1000. In this case, it wasn’t an issue that it wasn’t a single itinerary as we weren’t immediately connecting. The report will cover all the sectors, with more focus on TR and SQ as the TT flight was rushed, rather uneventful and i suspect few people have interest in TT anyway; its an LCC and you get what you pay for. Apologies in advance for some missing/not-so-good photos. They were the best i could manage in the circumstances. For a TL;DR, head to the end of the report.
TR2 is scheduled to depart Changi T2 at 1:45am, so i basically didn’t sleep the entire day and hoped to knock out on the flight. We reached the airport at around 11:15pm, and proceeded to check-in. The self check-in kiosk however, kept showing an error message, so we had to get our boarding passes and luggage tags from a check-in agent. Apparently, many people were experiencing the same issue and the agent groused about the system. I guess you get what you pay for……. In any case, we had plenty of time to spare and the agent got us all squared away quickly. We entered the departure hall and went to the food court for a bite to eat.
The prices in the T2 departure hall food court border on ludicrous to my Singaporean sense of value (though by Melbourne standards, they would be cheap), but at least they tasted good and filled us up plenty. Sated, we went to our boarding gate E4…..which greeted us with a loooong line of travellers waiting to clear security.
Scoot’s 787-9s have a total of 336 seats (by comparison, SQ’s 77Ws only have 278 seats), and from the looks of it, the Y cabin at least would be packed. Security cleared us quickly and we topped up our water bottles (very important for an LCC flight of this length!) and waited for the boarding call. That came at 1:12am (about 10mins behind schedule) and we lined up to board. It would be my first flight on a B787 so the AVGeek in me was excited, though that was tempered by the fact that it was to be on a 9-abreast Y seat and in an LCC, and that i was tired. I noted somewhat humourously that there would be no in-flight maps to get regular position updates; a dealbreaker for some of our esteemed forum members perhaps?
TR2 is scheduled to depart Changi T2 at 1:45am, so i basically didn’t sleep the entire day and hoped to knock out on the flight. We reached the airport at around 11:15pm, and proceeded to check-in. The self check-in kiosk however, kept showing an error message, so we had to get our boarding passes and luggage tags from a check-in agent. Apparently, many people were experiencing the same issue and the agent groused about the system. I guess you get what you pay for……. In any case, we had plenty of time to spare and the agent got us all squared away quickly. We entered the departure hall and went to the food court for a bite to eat.
The prices in the T2 departure hall food court border on ludicrous to my Singaporean sense of value (though by Melbourne standards, they would be cheap), but at least they tasted good and filled us up plenty. Sated, we went to our boarding gate E4…..which greeted us with a loooong line of travellers waiting to clear security.
Scoot’s 787-9s have a total of 336 seats (by comparison, SQ’s 77Ws only have 278 seats), and from the looks of it, the Y cabin at least would be packed. Security cleared us quickly and we topped up our water bottles (very important for an LCC flight of this length!) and waited for the boarding call. That came at 1:12am (about 10mins behind schedule) and we lined up to board. It would be my first flight on a B787 so the AVGeek in me was excited, though that was tempered by the fact that it was to be on a 9-abreast Y seat and in an LCC, and that i was tired. I noted somewhat humourously that there would be no in-flight maps to get regular position updates; a dealbreaker for some of our esteemed forum members perhaps?
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