Recently, me and my partner went on a short weekend trip to a not-so-popular-destination for Singaporeans in our neighbouring country, Kota Kinabalu, or KK in short. Tourism in KK has seen large increases from North Asian visitors, but it remains still rather unpopular with us Asean visitors. Wanting to know what is the attraction of KK, we booked our flights up to KK on AirAsia, and the initial return flight in Business Class redemption on Silkair's new additional evening service to KK. However, slightly more than a month before our travels, Silkair cancelled the evening return flight (I guess due to poor loads) and rebooked us on the next day's flight. Not wanting to pay additional for accommodation, we cancelled our Silkair tickets for a full refund, and rebooked on AK instead. In fact, AK fares were still very reasonable even with the short booking period and all the frills thrown in. So read on for my 1st trip of the year!
Check-in was done via internet and boarding passes were also printed at home. However, document verification still had to be done at the counters at Changi Terminal One 45min before departure.
Qantas group dominates Terminal One.
Brand new Jetstar A320 with winglets.
More Jetstars with a lone CX and AirAsia.
Boarding gate at C17. Boarding had started early.
17 January 2014
Air Asia
AK 1792
Singapore (SIN) - Kota Kinabalu (BKI)
A320
9M-AQC
Budget Class
9M-AQC, one of the many AK A320s operating the flight today.
Reached out seats at 24D/F, where the seat pitch is real tiny! Luckily the middle seat remained empty for the flight.
Qantas A330-300 beside.
Boarding in progress. It was completed early, with final load of 122/180. 4 female cabin crew on this flight and all were friendly and cheerful. Good start to the flight. Flight time was announced at 2hrs.
Pushback on time.
Had a really long taxi to Rwy02C.
Luffy's whale!
Check-in was done via internet and boarding passes were also printed at home. However, document verification still had to be done at the counters at Changi Terminal One 45min before departure.
Qantas group dominates Terminal One.
Brand new Jetstar A320 with winglets.
More Jetstars with a lone CX and AirAsia.
Boarding gate at C17. Boarding had started early.
17 January 2014
Air Asia
AK 1792
Singapore (SIN) - Kota Kinabalu (BKI)
A320
9M-AQC
Budget Class
9M-AQC, one of the many AK A320s operating the flight today.
Reached out seats at 24D/F, where the seat pitch is real tiny! Luckily the middle seat remained empty for the flight.
Qantas A330-300 beside.
Boarding in progress. It was completed early, with final load of 122/180. 4 female cabin crew on this flight and all were friendly and cheerful. Good start to the flight. Flight time was announced at 2hrs.
Pushback on time.
Had a really long taxi to Rwy02C.
Luffy's whale!
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