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**SQ777** · 15 December 2019, 06:34 PM

Thank you for such a great report! Says a lot about SQ and crew that they are capable of providing such high quality service in Y on what must be a pretty tiring journey physically. Loved your pics of SF – makes me want to go back!

**yflyer** · 17 December 2019, 01:25 AM

Originally posted by SQ777 View Post

Thank you for such a great report! Says a lot about SQ and crew that they are capable of providing such high quality service in Y on what must be a pretty tiring journey physically. Loved your pics of SF � makes me want to go back!

Thanks for reading, SQ777! Yes, agree it can't be easy to work such a long sector, even with some crew rest periods doing the flight. Have always been impressed by how SQ cabin crew still manage to look so fresh at the end of long flights, although they must be very tired.

**davidfusq** · 17 December 2019, 05:50 AM

Great trip report as always!
I wonder what’s the SIN-SFO ULR flight experience will be like... gotta try them soon before SQ switches to all non ULR plane on SFO route in less than one year time.
Anyway, I think the second meal timing in the middle of the flight is less than ideal cause it’s too near to the first meal and leave too much gap to the end of flight with no meal service. It is probably a understandable compromise cause the crews need to take turns to rest and thus to account for the shift change, meal service can only happen mid flight when they are changing shift or at the final 2 hours. Otherwise, maybe for ULR flights, airlines can consider 3 meals with second meal at the mid flight and third meal 2 hours prior to landing and these two meals can be served in half trays like below.

**yflyer** · 17 December 2019, 09:45 PM

Originally posted by davidfusq View Post

Great trip report as always!

Thanks, davidfusq!

Originally posted by davidfusq View Post

I wonder what’s the SIN-SFO ULR flight experience will be like... gotta try them soon before SQ switches to all non ULR plane on SFO route in less than one year time.

I think nonstops like SIN-SFO are probably the "new normal" for long haul. In Y, if you are in an aisle seat, the overall experience for SIN-SFO is not too different from your typical long haul e.g. SIN-LHR (13+ hours) or SFO-HKG (As long as 14 hours). Even SFO-SIN, at 16 hours, didn't feel too much longer. I think SQ's IFE, with its massive program selection, does make a difference in keeping boredom at bay.

Originally posted by davidfusq View Post

maybe for ULR flights, airlines can consider 3 meals with second meal at the mid flight and third meal 2 hours prior to landing

I would personally prefer a 3rd meal service as well. Maybe the reason they don't do for SIN-SFO is the impact of the additional cabin crew workload (And less rest) if they have to do a 3rd meal service. I believe during meal service, all cabin crew are working and none are resting.

Originally posted by davidfusq View Post

these two meals can be served in half trays like below.

Thanks for sharing these half tray pics. I've never seen the half trays like the pics above on SQ, even for short SQ flights to JKT or BKK. On my flights to/from JKT and BKK, it has always been the usual trays this year. Are they now standard for SIN-JKT or similar routes?

**jammed** · 18 December 2019, 07:57 AM

Thanks yflyer for another wonderfully vivid TR! Have been silently following some of yr reports over the past year but simply overwhelmed by daily routines to compliment them. But now that i have a bit freer time at the end of teh year i want to let you know that your TRs have been great - the amount of effort you took in each of these, including this TR, to focus on the user interface more than immerse the reader into the experience. You allow readers to size up and gauge each product to make travel decisions, from airlines and routes, to specific aircraft for seats and IFE, to hotels and eats (my goodness yr dining reports is another category in its own). And you are probably the only SQtalker here who features a RunReport! For some of us who try to squeeze in runs in between work trips these are vy useful info - for teh world of me though i cant fathom how you can so easily put in 10-11k with still the energy to take steady pictures. Thanks again for this wonderfully detailed TR and RR of one of my favourite cities, and as i said, all yr TRs in the past year. Happy holidays

**davidfusq** · 18 December 2019, 06:30 PM

Originally posted by yflyer View Post

Thanks for sharing these half tray pics. I've never seen the half trays like the pics above on SQ, even for short SQ flights to JKT or BKK. On my flights to/from JKT and BKK, it has always been the usual trays this year. Are they now standard for SIN-JKT or similar routes?

The picture on the left was taken during my flight on 17 September 2019 from Jakarta to Singapore in which I was served the half tray. On the flight from Singapore to Jakarta on 12 September 2019, it was still the full tray. The difference between the half tray and full tray was that the mineral water cup and coffee cup was removed from the half tray.

The picture on the right was from a fellow sqtalk forumer enroute to/from Ho Chi Minh City.

**yflyer** · 20 December 2019, 08:12 AM

Originally posted by davidfusq View Post

The picture on the left was taken during my flight on 17 September 2019 from Jakarta to Singapore in which I was served the half tray.

Thanks for sharing! I wonder if this is a phased rollout of the half tray, or if it was just a trial. I've not encountered this half tray yet. Will look out for it next time I do SIN-JKT-SIN.

**yflyer** · 20 December 2019, 08:22 AM