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116. SQ A380 Y to New Delhi: Butter Chicken & The Art of the Seat Swap
I wrote this TR in mid-May 2020. Now, as it was then, the Covid-19 pandemic is still far from over. SIA's Whalejets are still grounded, along with much of the rest of the fleet, although tentative steps are being taken to restart flying, albeit with quite a different inflight experience. Will there ever be a time when travel demand picks up enough for SQ to reinstate A380 services to India?
Turning back the clock to late October 2019, I made a business trip to the Indian business and IT hub of Gurgaon, not far from the nation's capital, New Delhi.
I flew there and back on SQ's A380 in Economy. As it turned out, I've not flown on the A380 since that time.
Will this A380 experience be my last ever? When things return to some sort of normalcy, I can see A380's on routes like SIN-SYD, SIN-LHR or SIN-NRT, but I doubt many other routes would be able to fill such a large aircraft.
Just in case I never again set foot onboard an A380, one of my favourite aircraft types, here is a TR documenting the pre Covid-19 travel experience on SQ A380 Y.
While I had assigned seats on both flights, on my return DEL-SIN flight, while the boarding process was underway, I saw the opportunity to swap to a better seat. Sounds simple doesn't it...get up from seat A and move to seat B...but there are many factors at play here. In this TR I offer an opinion on the art of the seat swap...
On these flights, I also took the opportunity to sample that Indian culinary classic: butter chicken, an item which appeared on the menu of both the outbound SIN-DEL and inbound DEL-SIN sectors.
Was there a difference between the Singapore catered dish and the ex-India version? Read on to find out!
I wrote this TR in mid-May 2020. Now, as it was then, the Covid-19 pandemic is still far from over. SIA's Whalejets are still grounded, along with much of the rest of the fleet, although tentative steps are being taken to restart flying, albeit with quite a different inflight experience. Will there ever be a time when travel demand picks up enough for SQ to reinstate A380 services to India?
Turning back the clock to late October 2019, I made a business trip to the Indian business and IT hub of Gurgaon, not far from the nation's capital, New Delhi.
I flew there and back on SQ's A380 in Economy. As it turned out, I've not flown on the A380 since that time.
Will this A380 experience be my last ever? When things return to some sort of normalcy, I can see A380's on routes like SIN-SYD, SIN-LHR or SIN-NRT, but I doubt many other routes would be able to fill such a large aircraft.
Just in case I never again set foot onboard an A380, one of my favourite aircraft types, here is a TR documenting the pre Covid-19 travel experience on SQ A380 Y.
While I had assigned seats on both flights, on my return DEL-SIN flight, while the boarding process was underway, I saw the opportunity to swap to a better seat. Sounds simple doesn't it...get up from seat A and move to seat B...but there are many factors at play here. In this TR I offer an opinion on the art of the seat swap...
On these flights, I also took the opportunity to sample that Indian culinary classic: butter chicken, an item which appeared on the menu of both the outbound SIN-DEL and inbound DEL-SIN sectors.
Was there a difference between the Singapore catered dish and the ex-India version? Read on to find out!
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