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  • Around Asia with SQ/TG/JL

    First of all let me start with an apology for not finishing my Mongolia trip report(I'm too lazy to go back and finish it now).

    This trip came out of nowhere. On Jan 28th Friday morning I called SQ to change my return portion of my ticket to BKK. Then right after that I called UA to use my almost expiring miles to upgrade. I got rejected (there were seats, but can't do within 24hours). I booked for the night departure from KIX that night. It was 10:30am...I had less than 30 minutes to sort this out before Saturdays departure. So I called SQ again and then UA. Upgrade worked out. I go to work that day come home and do lots of last minute shopping.

    My trip was going to be KIX-SIN-BKK and after that I was planning a run to LAX, but things kept changing so. If you read until the end you'll get the whole routing.

    So Jan 29th morning came up. I woke up at 8am did last minute preperations and then left at 8:40am. There was light traffic today so I got to the airport by 9:25am. First of all you go through the entrance.



    Need to find the checkin counters for SQ Aisle H



    Here is the counter for SQ checkin.



    I had 52kg worth of bags, but SQ let me go with the extra 2kg. C passenger + 20kg *G! I carefully weighed my bags, but how did I end up with being 2 kg over? I dunno

    Anyways after checkin my bags, which took no more than 1 minute, I head downstairs to get breakfast.

    I had takoyaki



    I walked around and decided if I should get some Tonkatsu, but I knew SQ was going to feed me enough so I didn't need to over stuff myself.



    Bought some Omiyage (souviners) and then off to security!

    Must look at the flight information first.


    Greeted with LONG lines for security which only takes 5 minutes



    While I was waiting for security. Just snapped a photo of my boarding pass


    Immigration and Security took all of 7 minutes.

    Post immigration


    If you need to shower


    Shuttle Train to the gates

  • #2
    SQ Invited me to use the Sakura Lounge (I knew the lounge is terrible from flying JL).

    Signs


    Airlines which use this lounge.


    Star VS OW


    Entrance



    I find it rude to take photo's of the reception lady and the reception area so I never take photo's of that area.

    After the reception turn left



    Seating area





    Food section

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    • #3
      Famous Beer Machines?




      Sake!



      I was at the lounge for about 3 minutes taking photo's of the lounge when they announced boarding. I drank a cup of water and left.

      Long walk to gate 41


      Gate 41 is still straight ahead.


      Boarding already started for *G and C


      I love turning left ! There were two people walking next to me saying they wish they could turn left like me

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      • #4
        My plane today was 9V-SWG (If I remember correctly) I took this photo before boarding.



        My seat for today!


        Close up



        Some pictures of the seats
        The seat condition was pretty bad.



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        • #5
          All pairs of seats had 1 person each so load in Business Class was 15/30.



          Welcome Onboard drink. Drank half before I photoed oops.


          Distributed Menu's.



          Captain came on and told us we were going to have a 40 min delay due to Air Traffic. I guess this had to do with Miyazaki's Eruppting. Flight time to Singapore was expected to be 7 hours and 20 minutes.



          Once we took off. Headseats were distributed along with Slippers and eyeshades.



          First round of drinks.
          Apple Juice and Water (I don't drink)

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          • #6
            Originally posted by fumitani View Post
            My plane today was 9V-SWG (If I remember correctly)
            Definitely not SWG. STG perhaps...

            Thanks for the TR.

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            • #7
              Lunch service took forever to start. It didn't start until 1.5 hours post takeoff

              Satay Lamb and Chicken

              Warm Nuts


              After this was another 30 minute wait.


              Inbetween I went to the bathroom.




              Came back to my seat and still waited. and finally the salad came.


              Garlic Bread

              Over cooked Beef which tasted like rubber.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by milehighj View Post
                Definitely not SWG. STG perhaps...

                Thanks for the TR.
                Thanks for correcting me. W is for the 77W's

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                • #9
                  Thanks for the TR - good to hear from you fumitani.

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                  • #10
                    Sesame Pudding


                    Finally Fruits and Cheese


                    This is when we finished lunch service!


                    After the meal I watched Red and Unstoppable.

                    Before arriving into Singapore this came up


                    Then before arrival the captain came on and announced thanks for flying SQ (the usual) and then gave us that we were in a holding pattern because of storm and low visibility in SIN. We ended up arriving at 5:55pm. My 1hour and 40 minute layover became a 40 minute layover.

                    post landing




                    I went to immigration (my usual stamp run), but they rejected me this time saying time was too short. I had less than 30 minutes left before take off oh well.

                    SkyTrain to T2


                    Made it to the gate with still 15 minutes to spare before boarding!


                    I made the mistake of going in instead of going to the lounge. I was thirsy, but oh well lazy to go out.

                    Today's aircraft is 9V-SRF (yay no AVOD) I wanted to play supermario

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                    • #11
                      Gate Hold Area


                      I was the first one to board, but people were quick to board so I couldn't get clean shots of this time. I slummed it in Y this time (didn't want to waste miles upgrading SIN-BKK)


                      Yay for Non AVOD (but All games were out of service )

                      After seated in 35G

                      Pork or Chicken? Pork...

                      Ice-cream which I didn't eat.

                      Flight time was 2 hours...Nothing special.
                      Arrival was 10 minutes before schedule, but bags took 25 minutes to come out

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by StarG View Post
                        Thanks for the TR - good to hear from you fumitani.
                        I've been absent for too long.


                        Coming up.


                        TG BKK-UTH-BKK
                        JL BKK-HND-OKA-HND-OKA-HND-OKA-ITM

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by fumitani View Post
                          I've been absent for too long.

                          Coming up.

                          JL BKK-HND-OKA-HND-OKA-HND-OKA-ITM
                          Yes, too long... welcome back..

                          So what's with so many OKA? And are we getting any pillow shots?

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by 9V-JKL View Post
                            And are we getting any pillow shots?
                            Exactly what I was thinking when reading this! And no photos of fumitani's throat being tickled by bubbles ?

                            Why a "stamp run" ? I prefer to avoid stamps in my passport to maximise how long before I need to renew it (I can't add pages).

                            Anyway, thanks to fumitani for the TR - looking forward to reading more!

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by fumitani View Post
                              JL BKK-HND-OKA-HND-OKA-HND-OKA-ITM
                              OH, you know someone's on a run!
                              HUGE AL

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