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This will be a short trip report on my recent (Feb 2019) trip up to Britain.
This was a trip that I was anticipating as I have not been back to Britain since graduation from University a few years ago, albeit for a postgraduate exam this time. (for some archaic reason, we still do British postgraduate exams for many specialties in Singapore).
As airfares and hotels were self-paid, I hence had to choose the most value for money ones.
Options at that time were SQ, BA and QF as the only 3 direct options. As the preparatory course was in London but the actual exam was in Inverness, Scotland, SQ was ruled out as the nearest airport would've been Manchester, a good 500 miles south of Inverness.
That left BA and QF, for which QF (funnily enough) was a good $200 cheaper, despite INV-LHR being on BA codeshare.
SIN to LHR
QF1
Seat 71D
12/2/2019
This was an almost empty flight even in Y. I'd estimate a 30% load SIN-LHR. Not sure what the load was SYD-SIN.
QF A380s have a special seat at 71D. 70D is taken out as an emergency exit on the floor. This led to fantastic leg room:
Emergency exit hiding under the carpet.
In any case, it didn't matter as it was so empty that I had the whole 4-seat row to myself (as did most people in Y). Would be useful in full loads and probably worth paying the extra to secure this seat in future.
Touchdown to LHR T3 was at 6am, and immigration clearance took (a surprisingly quick) 20 minutes.
The next four days were spent in Hammersmith hospital:
British hospital canteen food for lunch ... Boy did this make me appreciate Singapore hospitals food far more.
Headed up to Birmingham for a couple days before the exam to visit a university mate.
Britain's second city is very pretty at night.
This was a trip that I was anticipating as I have not been back to Britain since graduation from University a few years ago, albeit for a postgraduate exam this time. (for some archaic reason, we still do British postgraduate exams for many specialties in Singapore).
As airfares and hotels were self-paid, I hence had to choose the most value for money ones.
Options at that time were SQ, BA and QF as the only 3 direct options. As the preparatory course was in London but the actual exam was in Inverness, Scotland, SQ was ruled out as the nearest airport would've been Manchester, a good 500 miles south of Inverness.
That left BA and QF, for which QF (funnily enough) was a good $200 cheaper, despite INV-LHR being on BA codeshare.
SIN to LHR
QF1
Seat 71D
12/2/2019
This was an almost empty flight even in Y. I'd estimate a 30% load SIN-LHR. Not sure what the load was SYD-SIN.
QF A380s have a special seat at 71D. 70D is taken out as an emergency exit on the floor. This led to fantastic leg room:
Emergency exit hiding under the carpet.
In any case, it didn't matter as it was so empty that I had the whole 4-seat row to myself (as did most people in Y). Would be useful in full loads and probably worth paying the extra to secure this seat in future.
Touchdown to LHR T3 was at 6am, and immigration clearance took (a surprisingly quick) 20 minutes.
The next four days were spent in Hammersmith hospital:
British hospital canteen food for lunch ... Boy did this make me appreciate Singapore hospitals food far more.
Headed up to Birmingham for a couple days before the exam to visit a university mate.
Britain's second city is very pretty at night.
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