Over the Christmas weekend holidays, I made a trip to Hong Kong to experience some wintery weather for the holiday season. Tickets on SQ, booked rather early for this trip, was comparable to budget airlines prices.
Checked in at Terminal 3 and received boarding pass.
22 December 2017
Singapore Airlines
SQ 872
Singapore (SIN) - Hong Kong (HKG)
B777-200
9V-SQN
Economy Class
Flight Time: 3H34M
Boarding has was almost completed when I reached the gate and thus boarded immediately. Earphones were available at the door. This aircraft was retrofitted with the 2006 Y seats from the B77Ws. A pillow and blanket was placed on each seat. There was Christmas decorations in the cabin as well (pics from after arrival).
View out the window at Gate A1.
Inflight magazine, Krisworld and KrisShop guides.
The new SQ economy earphones, which seemed to have better audio quality than the previous version. Also, I noticed that the IFE guide seemed thinner than usual, and realised that SQ had placed the wrong version of the IFE guide in all seats. Instead of the newer version of KrisWorld (similar to A330/A380 etc) which this aircraft is equipped with and offering more than 200 movies, the KrisWorld magazines stocked was for the older non-retrofitted aircraft IFE system with only 80 movies. Very unlike SQ to make this error.
View of the seatback.
Safety video played (the older version) and we started the taxi. It would be more than 3hrs to HKG.
Taxied to the active runway.
3 Firefly ATR72s lined on on the remote stand.
Checked in at Terminal 3 and received boarding pass.
22 December 2017
Singapore Airlines
SQ 872
Singapore (SIN) - Hong Kong (HKG)
B777-200
9V-SQN
Economy Class
Flight Time: 3H34M
Boarding has was almost completed when I reached the gate and thus boarded immediately. Earphones were available at the door. This aircraft was retrofitted with the 2006 Y seats from the B77Ws. A pillow and blanket was placed on each seat. There was Christmas decorations in the cabin as well (pics from after arrival).
View out the window at Gate A1.
Inflight magazine, Krisworld and KrisShop guides.
The new SQ economy earphones, which seemed to have better audio quality than the previous version. Also, I noticed that the IFE guide seemed thinner than usual, and realised that SQ had placed the wrong version of the IFE guide in all seats. Instead of the newer version of KrisWorld (similar to A330/A380 etc) which this aircraft is equipped with and offering more than 200 movies, the KrisWorld magazines stocked was for the older non-retrofitted aircraft IFE system with only 80 movies. Very unlike SQ to make this error.
View of the seatback.
Safety video played (the older version) and we started the taxi. It would be more than 3hrs to HKG.
Taxied to the active runway.
3 Firefly ATR72s lined on on the remote stand.
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