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These days, when booking travel, my choice of airline has settled into a certain pattern: SIA for work travel, Scoot for leisure travel.
For business trips, my first choice continues to be SQ – the combination of convenient schedules out of Singapore, extreme punctuality and wonderful onboard service and cabin product, has been unbeatable.
While I would like to fly SQ for holidays too, and have done so in the past, these days the price differential between SQ and LCC’s (And even some other FSC’s) has been pretty huge.
For leisure travel, my travel booking routine goes like this: I first check out full service carrier airfares on the web, typically nonstops on SQ etc. Then I look at LCC’s, starting with Scoot, then Jetstar and Air Asia, and also one-stop options on full service carriers like CX or TG.
There are sometimes attractive promo fares on SQ, but often these are too restrictive to be useful.
For me, in recent months the most attractive combination of fares, timings and ticketing conditions have been on Scoot, which is how Mrs yflyer and I ended up flying to Bangkok for a weekend getaway on Scoot’s 787 Dreamliner service at the end of November this year.
Scoot flies A320’s and 787’s to Bangkok, and even flies to two different Bangkok airports: the sprawling hub at Suvarnabhumi (BKK), as well as the older, but more centrally located, Don Mueang Airport (DMK).
On such a short 2 hour flight, one might argue that there isn’t that much difference between a narrowbody A320 and a widebody 787, however the added comfort of a widebody is undeniable, whatever the sector length.
I booked both SIN-BKK and BKK-SIN sectors on flights operated by the Dreamliner, both of which were packed chock full of mainly holiday travellers.
On this trip, we stayed at the W Bangkok in Sathorn, a swank and very stylish hotel that I had stayed at previously. I wanted to introduce the W to Mrs yflyer, since I had raved so much about it to her after my last stay there.
This was a leisure trip. While I had been to Bangkok several times before, those were always work trips, and I had seen almost nothing. On this occasion, with Mrs yflyer in charge of the itinerary, we had a packed weekend, where we saw a lot of Bangkok…
We visited one of Bangkok’s famous floating markets…
…as well as Bangkok’s newest mall, IconSiam…
We also checked out the amazing Sunday Brunch at the Sukhothai…
TR INDEX
1. Flight – Scoot TR616 SIN-BKK
2. Hotel – W Bangkok
3. Run – Lumphini Park
4. Destination – Latmayom Floating Market
5. Destination – IconSiam Mall
6. Dining – Royal Osha
7. Dining – Sunday Brunch at the Sukhothai
8. Flight – Scoot TR617 BKK-SIN
9. Final Reflections
For business trips, my first choice continues to be SQ – the combination of convenient schedules out of Singapore, extreme punctuality and wonderful onboard service and cabin product, has been unbeatable.
While I would like to fly SQ for holidays too, and have done so in the past, these days the price differential between SQ and LCC’s (And even some other FSC’s) has been pretty huge.
For leisure travel, my travel booking routine goes like this: I first check out full service carrier airfares on the web, typically nonstops on SQ etc. Then I look at LCC’s, starting with Scoot, then Jetstar and Air Asia, and also one-stop options on full service carriers like CX or TG.
There are sometimes attractive promo fares on SQ, but often these are too restrictive to be useful.
For me, in recent months the most attractive combination of fares, timings and ticketing conditions have been on Scoot, which is how Mrs yflyer and I ended up flying to Bangkok for a weekend getaway on Scoot’s 787 Dreamliner service at the end of November this year.
Scoot flies A320’s and 787’s to Bangkok, and even flies to two different Bangkok airports: the sprawling hub at Suvarnabhumi (BKK), as well as the older, but more centrally located, Don Mueang Airport (DMK).
On such a short 2 hour flight, one might argue that there isn’t that much difference between a narrowbody A320 and a widebody 787, however the added comfort of a widebody is undeniable, whatever the sector length.
I booked both SIN-BKK and BKK-SIN sectors on flights operated by the Dreamliner, both of which were packed chock full of mainly holiday travellers.
On this trip, we stayed at the W Bangkok in Sathorn, a swank and very stylish hotel that I had stayed at previously. I wanted to introduce the W to Mrs yflyer, since I had raved so much about it to her after my last stay there.
This was a leisure trip. While I had been to Bangkok several times before, those were always work trips, and I had seen almost nothing. On this occasion, with Mrs yflyer in charge of the itinerary, we had a packed weekend, where we saw a lot of Bangkok…
We visited one of Bangkok’s famous floating markets…
…as well as Bangkok’s newest mall, IconSiam…
We also checked out the amazing Sunday Brunch at the Sukhothai…
TR INDEX
1. Flight – Scoot TR616 SIN-BKK
2. Hotel – W Bangkok
3. Run – Lumphini Park
4. Destination – Latmayom Floating Market
5. Destination – IconSiam Mall
6. Dining – Royal Osha
7. Dining – Sunday Brunch at the Sukhothai
8. Flight – Scoot TR617 BKK-SIN
9. Final Reflections
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