India Birthday Trip (May 2025) - SQ A350, Boeing 787-10 & A380 to MAA (via DEL)

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After a year of planning, I've decided to do something different for my birthday. While it wasn't ideal for me to move it up to June because my mom's Summer vacation is around the corner, I thought it had to be done when it was still during off peak travel.

I was initially planning to travel by Emirates but the prices fluctuated appropriately but we got Singapore Airlines for $750 in May to Delhi when Chennai prices were rising, too. Although as I've said a number of times, the planes on Singapore Airlines are cramped, but I guess it's Singapore's way of calling me to celebrate SG 60 during my layover. I'm typing this as I'm about to board my flight SQ31. My dad's a seasoned traveler on SQ31. And to be quite fitting, the flight numbers to/from SFO represent my age.

More posts to come.

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Flight: Singapore Airlines flight SQ33
Route: San Francisco - Singapore
Aircraft: Airbus A350-900 (9V-SJA, 5.5 years at the time of departure.)
Livery: Normal
Date of Departure: May 19 (11:30AM), Arrival May 20 (7:10PM)
Seat: 58A (Economy Class)
Configuration: 3-class (Business, Premium Economy, Economy)

We got to SFO around 9:15AM and checked in. However, check in took about 30 minutes, due to them taking longer to process bags for other families. Not normally this long at SFO. To compensate for that, TSA pre took no more than less than a minute. (Pictures will follow)