SQ F Asia

[quik!]

Can't wait to read your reports, as always - photos galore plesae!

[fumitani]

OZ 722 HKG-ICN HL7415
Departure Gate 15
Arrival Gate 7

Once onboard I was presented with the F menu for today before the doors closed. I took a quick look at the menu and I didn’t really decide what I wanted to eat. Anyways then came on the Purser saying that the flight time to ICN was going to be a quick 2 hours and 55 minutes. When we got to the active runway, I didn’t catch which runway we took of from, we had a SAA 346 and CX aircraft in front of us. We were third to take off. Our routing took us directly over Taipei and then straight up to Korea. When we got to the cruising altitiude the captain came on the intercom and did his welcome and gave information about the routing. His English was pretty good I have to admit for a Korean.

Here is the transcript of the menu.

First the ICN-HKG, both menus are on the same menu

Brunch
Seoul – Hong Kong

Hors d’ Oeuvre
Perch & Salmon Terrine, Mixed Vegetables Roll, Parma Ham Slice with Melon Ball

Pumpkin Soup
Or
Beef Consomme

Main Courses

Grilled Marked Beef Tenderloin Steak
Served with Red Wine Sauce
Or
Lobster Thermidor

To complement your meal choice
Potato, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Pimento,
Carrot, Zucchini, Vegetable-Fried Rice and
*Steamed Sprouted Brown Rice
or
“Mixing and Harmonizing”
A Famous Korean Cuisine ‘Bi-Bim-Bab’
Steamed Rice Mixed with Various Kinds of Vegetables,
Accompanied by Hot Pepper Paste, Sesame Oil,
Assorted Side Dishes and Soup

Selection of Cheese

Fresh Fruit

Dessert
Apple Tart with Raspberry & Vanilla Sauce

Coffee & Tea

Lunch
Hong Kong- Seoul

Selection of Canape

Hors d’Oeuvre
Grilled Prawn, Vegetable Skewer and Blackforest
Ham Melon Roll

Creamy Pea and Mint Soup
Or
Beef Consomme

Seasonal Mixed Salad
Served with Mustard Mayonnaise Dressing or Coriander Dressing

Main Courses

Beef Tenderloin Steak
Served with Chanterelles Mushroom Cream Sauce

Or

Grilled Lobster Tail
Served with Lobster Sauce

To complement your meal choice
Steamed Rice, Chateau Rosemary Potato,
Carrot, Yellow Squash, Sugar Pea,
And Stri Fired Mixed Vegetables
Or
‘Mixing and Harmonizing’
A Famous Korean Royal Cuisine ‘Bi-Bim-Bab’
Steamed Rice Mixed with Various Kinds of Vegetables,
Accompanied by Hot Pepper Paste, Sesame Oil,
Assorted Side Dishes and Soup

Selection of Cheese

Fresh Fruit

Dessert
Cheese Cake

Coffee & Tea

Assorted Petits Fours

So first comes out the Canape, but I forgot to take a picture of it. It consisted of Parma Ham rolled in Melon and also a smoke salmon on top of bread. It was good I wanted seconds, but I decided against it.

Then the table was laid out. Here is how it looks like. I got a glass of water along with a cup of Orange Juice. Oh if you want to know SQ uses Evian water and OZ uses Volvic water. Am I getting into too much detail now ? Here is the laid out of the table



Then came out the Prawn and Ham. I quickly ate that. Maybe I should tell you that there were 4 people serving 2 people! So service was excellent. Too bad I couldn’t speak Korean or the service would have been more personal.



Then the Pea soup came out. This is gross I just had the coutons and I gave it back.



Then the salad came out. It was good their Coriander Dressing I finished everything.



Then came out the main dish. Of course you could pick from the menu right I got the lobster again. Okay I need to seriously quit eating lobsters now I’m going to get high cholesterol. I had 3 lobsters with 48 hours. I ate the lobster had the vegetables and left the rice alone. As I was already getting pretty full.



Then came out the cheese and fruits. Wow I ate all fruits and cheese and I was stuffed packed!



Then they said there was still dessert I was like fine more food wooooo. The cheesecake came out and I ordered Oolong Tea with it. The cheesecake was delicious and I ate every bit of it. After I finished the food I had a food coma. Way too much food.




After the meal service I reclined the seat and watched a movie. I forget the title of the movie, but it was not good. But very soon it was already time for landing. The food service took almost 2 hours to complete. We arrived in Incheon and then I was the first passenger to deplane. During the 2 hour transit I was actually going to clear immigration and come back in. But I thought it was risky so I didn’t do it. I walked straight to the transit counter. I found my passport and couldn’t locate my ticket. So I was the only idiot walking back towards the plane. I walk straight back on to the nose of the 744 and the crew was like what’s wrong. I said I forgot my ticket and quickly located it. They wished me happy travels to JFK.

[Priorité]

Nice trip report, fumitani.
Hope to see more soon!

[quik!]

Thanks fumitani! That lobster tail is huge! *salivates* For a 2-hour journey, that's quite luxurious!

Oh I forgot, it's F!

[fumitani]

I must say some people in this world are weird. There was a Chinese family in front of me. I guess the family just had her born in the US and brought back to China. She held a US passport and couldn’t understand 1 word of English. The father and mother held a Chinese passport. I was annoyed at that. It took extra long to clear security because of these people. I also wished I spoke Chinese to help out oh well. So I came up to the departures level. At gate 8 they were boarding a flight to KIX. That is my home! I wish I was heading there. So I walk towards more civilized area. I find a transit counter and ask where the OZ or SQ lounge is. She told me that the OZ lounge is located close to gate 15. So I walk there and I find that the OZ lounge is there. I find an information counter. I asked where the SQ lounge was. She asked where I was heading I said JFK in F. She told me I could use the OZ lounge. I said I know, but I want to go to the SQ lounge as I had plenty of time. So the SQ lounge was more of a walk to the other side of the airport. Finally I arrived in front of the SQ lounge.



I walked in and was greeted. I gave the lounge guard my F boarding pass. I she asked me where my Gold card was. I was like I’m traveling F. I guess that many airlines don’t think that a yellow boarding pass is a F boarding pass. Once I told her that she looked closely to find that it said F! Then she took down the details of the boarding pass so I guess SQ can collect money from OZ. After that the lady pushed the elevator button for me and I was quickly upstairs. I walked towards the F side



The lady quickly took a glance of my Boarding pass and allowed me into the F side. No problems. Once in the lounge I went over to see what they had on offer for food. I snapped this photo.



I grabbed the remaining Smoked Salmon and had a treetop apple juice and sat in front of the computer checking FT and SQT. There was F menu’s for every SQ flight out of ICN, but I felt bad for taking it so I didn’t. Then I wanted to charge my Digital camera battery which I did so it wouldn’t die on me. I went to the reception person and got an adapter for it. After that I was in the lounge for about 20 minutes or so. There was a family of 2 that was there also. I then started walking around the lounge. I went to take pictures of the entrance to the bathroom and then I went into the bathroom to take a photo of the shower room itself.




Soon after that I only had about 1 hour before boarding. I left the SQ lounge and the people thanked me there for using the lounge and wished me a good flight to JFK. I then walked over to Gate 12 where my flight was going to departure from. I was going to find some random person on my flight to enjoy the lounge with me. But I walked through the waiting area. Everyone looked scary so I said forget it and I just went to the Lounge.



I got to use the elevator up again. Once on the upside there is a small sign saying First Class. I walked down and the reception lady quickly got off her seat to come check my boarding pass. She said that she will personally come to me when boarding will commence. Once in the lounge I went to the food section again.



Since I wanted some food for some reason I got more Smoked Salmon. But I only took 2 slices as I knew I was almost full as is. I also took a photo of the Haagen Dazs ice-cream fridge.



Then I had about 30 minutes before boarding. There was a move by Arnold towards the end. I think it was Rambo? I’m bad at movie titles so please excuse me in this factor. So I watched the movie along with me fellow F passengers on my flight to JFK. There was 8 people in the lounge so I figured the cabin was almost going to be full? The computer said 12/12 was going to be showing up. I was like oh noes. When time for boarding came the lounge attendant came and said the flight was ready for boarding. I walked over to the gate and the gate agents saw my F boarding pass. The escorted me to the front of the queue. I had no wait! I went down the escalator and the lady opened the rope for me to go to the front also! This is service. And then after the liquid check for US bound flights I was personally escorted through the gateway to the airplane. I was escorted from the door to my seat 1K.

[fumitani]

Nice trip report, fumitani.
Hope to see more soon!

I'm doing my best with this trip report as this is the first time I ever wrote one it might not be as good as some others. I was always confused to what kind of pictures people wanted

[fumitani]

Thanks fumitani! That lobster tail is huge! *salivates* For a 2-hour journey, that's quite luxurious!

Oh I forgot, it's F!

The lobster tail was much more generous than SQ, but seriously the SQ one tasted better although there was more meat on the OZ flight

[fumitani]

OZ 222 ICN-JFK HL7428
Departure Gate 15
Arrival Gate Sorry I forgot the gate number but I think it was 22 or 24

So once onboard there was a passenger sitting next to me. That was not good. Since flight time was going to be 12 hours and 35 minutes. Luckily there was only 8 passengers total so the person sitting next to me moved to row 2C. There was 3 couples and the person sitting next to me and me were the only individuals traveling alone. Once again 8/12 for flight load in F, C was full and Y was full. Once I got seated I got apple juice. Then the flight attendants came around with pajamas. I still have the SQ F and OZ F pajamas right here in my apt in Irvine. I should wash them and use them when my semester for school starts. So we left the gate about 15 minutes late. There was too many aircrafts scheduled to leave around the same time.

Once we pushed back we rolled really slowly! I guess all the Jet-A fuel we had for a 12.5 hour flight to JFK. Take off roll was the longest I had on all my flights. Once we were airborne the menu’s were distributed. About 5-10 minutes later the orders were taken. Before the order was taken the purser came around to every individual F passenger to Thank you for using OZ and if they had any problems please let her know. Here is the menu for ICN-JFK

Dinner
Seoul – New York

Selection of Canape
Salmon Rose with Caper
Snownori Fish maki
Cream cheese with Celery Slice

Hors d’ Oeuvre
Sliced Gravalax, Parma Ham Cornet
Mixed Beans & Pimentos
Mushroom with Italian Dressing
In Crown Shape Melon Ball

Crab Bisque Soup
Or
Bouillabaisse

Tossed Salad
Yoghurt Dressing and Paprika Dressing

Main Course

Poached Lobster
Served with American Sauce

Or

Beef Tenderloin Steak
Served with Black Mushroom Sauce

Or

Grill Marked Salmon
Served with Bearnaise Sauce

To complement your meal choice
Jade Rice, Potato, Broccoli, Turnip, Carrot, Bokchoi,
Cauliflower, Grill Marked Stir Fried Vegetables

Selection of Cheese

Fresh Fruit

Dessert
Chocolate Brownie Cake

Coffee & Tea
Assorted Petit Fours

So the service starts again with the Canape



Then we have the table layout of course apple juice with the meal service



Then comes out the appetizer



Following with the Soup



Then we have the Salad. I did not like the dressing so I didn’t eat much of the salad. Don’t get me wrong I like vegetables, but the yogurt dressing was gross.



The main dish. It was good, but the sides were bad.



Finally came the dessert



After the dessert I thought that the brownie cake was going to come out, but I was really glad it didn’t. I was way too full. After the meal service the flight attendants came around to make our beds. I asked her to make my bed in the seat next to me. I was going to move it later myself anyways. Then I looked at the selection of the movie and the next move that was coming out was Rejected. It was a funny movie. During the movie we encounter SEVERE turbulence. Let me tell you that I love turbulence. It was soo bad that they had to have all flight attendants seated for about 2 hours. I didn’t fasten my seatbeat during that time anyways. I should tell you that my SIN-CMB-SIN sectors had tons of turbulence also. I was enjoying the rollercoaster ride! The flights attendants of that flight said they don’t like it. I was like this is better than going to Six Flags Magic Mountain!

[MovieMan]

Wow, fumi, very comprehensive trip report, to say the least. Great pictures.

[fumitani]

After the meal service and watching the movie I went to bed I slept for 7 straight hours. Then when I woke up it was time to eat again. I randomly took these three photos of where we were. I totally did not know what it said since it is in Korean.





Then here is the menu for the next set of service

Snack
Seoul – New York

Appetizer
Mixed Baby Shrimp with Calypso Sauce & Crab Leg Meat in Crab Shell
Boneless Ham Cornet with Melon Ball

Korean Royal Cuisine “U-Geo-Ji-Gal-Bi-Tang”
A Famous Korean Bean Paste Soup with Beef and Cabbage
Accompanied by Steamed Rice and Various Kinds of Side Dishes

Or

Korean Style Grilled Beef “Bul-Go-Gi”

Or

Mixed Seafood Kebab

To complement your meal choice

Apple Tart with Raspberry Sauce

Coffee & Tea

First came the crab dish this was super good!



Then came out the main dish I had beef again which was even better than the dinner service



Then finally I had the apple tart along with Oolong tea.



The last meal service started 2 hours before arrival into JFK. Our arrival into JFK was delayed as we had to fly in circles to get our landing spot. I could see from the window that there was a ton of aircraft circling to get in order. We landed on the runway adjacent with the United and American terminal. I’m lazy to look up the runway number. It took about 10 minutes to taxi to the gate. I was saying oh noes when we pulled into the gate since an Air-India flight from LHR arrived before us. So you guessed it right I was the first passenger off the plane again. I dashed to the gate. I joined the long cue for the visitors and it took about 30 minutes to process. My bag was already rolling on the carousel when I got there. I quickly grabbed my bags with all the Y passengers who had US citizens blocking my way since they cleared immigration quick. Then I walked out to customs I was glad to be not stopped here. Then I exited and took the escalator up to the Airtrain. Took the Airtrain to Jamaica station. Then I proceeded to use the E train to get to Times Square. I exited 43rd and 8ave. My friends apartment is about a 5 minute walk from there. Since he gave me the key to his apt I was free to use his apartment.

Once I entered his apartment his roommate was there. I had a quick chat with him for about 10 minutes? I think and he allowed me to use the internet and I did so in 3 minutes and he went to bed. I went to my friends bed and I passed out, but to wake up every hours. From 12.30am-5am. Finally at 5am I got out of bed took a shower and headed out to a diners. I got breakfast and then I came back to my friends apartment. After that I cleaned up my bags and got things ready for departure. Then I took the E train down to ground zero to go shopping at Century 21. After quick shopping I went to St. Mark’s the Japanese area of NY. I was going to have lunch, but they were closed. So I took the train back to Times Square and went to Model’s to see if they had shoes for cheap. They did, but I realized I had no more luggage space and I didn’t want to checkin any bags. So I ended up going to Sapporo on 7ave and 48th to have lunch. After that I walked back to my friends apartment and grabbed my stuff to head over to JFK.

To my luck this time I never had to wait more than 2 minutes for any trains. I took the E train back to JFK and got to JFK around 2.30pm. There was a 3.30pm departure I tried to standby for it. Full F and 1K status should be enough, but luck was not on my side. I ended up waiting 3 hours at the lounge oh well it wasn’t bad. I ended up talking with the RCC agents for about an hour. They were really nice. I told them on my return tomorrow I’ll drop by to say hi.

[fumitani]

Wow, fumi, very comprehensive trip report, to say the least. Great pictures.

Thank you. I'm trying to do my best to report my trip.

I have two requests, can you increase character count and make it so I can post more than 8 pictures per post

[fumitani]

UA 19 JFK-SFO N555UA
Departure Gate 7
Arrival Gate 81

I sat down on seat 1A. I pretty much put away my camera for this flight as I know nobody is really interested in having a PS report. I’ll just keep this one short. Jackets were hanged. Flight time was going to be 5 hours and 55 minutes. As soon as we took off we got drinks served. I asked for water as I was dehydrated. I drank water only throughout the whole flight. The meal started with an appetizer I forgot what it was, but it was followed by a salad. Asian seseme dressing this was good. Then we had soup, but I forget what type of soup it was. I got the Seabass for my main dish. This was also good, but it had vegetables and noodles on the side which tasted gross. It was way too soggy if you wanted to know why it was bad. Then after the meal service we got ice-cream. Chocolate and Vanilla. I quickly consumed the ice-cream and put the PS F seat into sleeping position and snoozed away for 4 hours. I think all this jetlag isn’t doing well in my body. I woke up to be informed that we were 40 minutes away from SFO. The captain said that we would be arriving early.

Oh flight load was Full in all classes, and to United congrats you had 12/12 revenue F on this flight.

Once the aircraft was on the ground, I called the 1K desk to check if the earlier flight to LAX had revenue F seats left there was 5 wow. But I was cutting it close I was deplaning at 8.45 with a 9.05 departure. I practically sprinted to gate 71A, but to my luck the GA already closed the flight early so I had to wait for the next flight. Although I got to the gate 13 minutes ahead of scheduled departure.

I ended up going to the RCC since I was entitled to use it because I flew PS F. In the lounge I was charing my cell phone since it was dying. Finally after that at 9.55pm I left the RCC to head over to gate 69. As soon as I got to the gate boarding just started.

UA 275 SFO-LAX N917UA
Departure Gate 69
Arrival Gate 71B

I was the first passenger to board. There was 4 passengers in F and one self upgrader, but the flight attendants didn’t care. Load in economy was 42 people out of whatever it was a 737-500 so you can check the seatmap.

Once onboard I was asked if I wanted anything to drink I was like I don’t need any thank you, but she hung up my jacket. Flight time to LAX was 54 minutes once take off. Also we took off from 28L and flight 863? The UA flight to Sydney was the flight right after us taking off from 28R.

Arrival into LAX was on 24R and when we hit the runway the pilots used the reverse thrusters and braked hard so we could reverse Yankee taxi. We got to the gate early and they didn’t have anyone to operate the gateway. We sat there for about 5 minutes before someone actually came. When I exited the aircraft I called my friend that was going to pick me up. He was waiting at In-N-Out and he was there 5 mintues later. I got home at 12.45am. This concludes the end of my 1st half of the trip.

Oh for you SQT people who want to see me in a pink shirt in SQ F I went to South Coast Plaza yesterday with my friend to get one. It is washed and ready to go. The second half of my report should be written at various airports? But I won’t be able to upload pixs. So the next installments should be around Jan 18 or 19th. Unless you don’t mind a report with no pixs yet.

Return is

LAX-SFO-JFK UA F
JFK-ICN-HKG OZ F
HKG-SIN-CMB-SIN-BKK SQ F
If you want I can write one for
BKK-SIN-KIX in SQ Y
KIX-SFO in UA C
SFO-SNA in UA F

Please let me know what you want me to focus on the return trip. I plan to visit more of the C lounges on the return if I have time.

FYI this report is 23 pages long with over 10000 words on Microsoft word
It took me over 12 hours to type the report so please leave comments. Anything I can improve on. Grammer is not checked so nothing related to grammer please

Oh I should add my seat assignments.

BKK-SIN was 2A
SIN-CMB-SIN-HKG was 1A
HKG-ICN-JFK was 1K
JFK-SFO-LAX is 1A

[jhm]

Thanks again! Great pictures!

Ah, I see you took OZ from HKG - on what basis did you get to access the KA lounge ? Nothing special IMO except someone there to make noodles for you.

[MovieMan]

Thank you. I'm trying to do my best to report my trip.

I have two requests, can you increase character count and make it so I can post more than 8 pictures per post

Hmmm I think there are technical reasons related to bandwidth for the limitations, but I will check with our tech guru LukeGT.

[9V-JKL]

fumitani Thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed reading it! Great work for a 1st time report

So did you enjoy the Char Siew at Marina Square in SIN? I like that stall