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Before I start details might be left out because I’m writing this 5 days later and 8 segments later and doing this from memory.
Background information
It was back in August when I started to plan this trip. After buying three 129all in LAX-JFK UA MR tickets it was finally time for me to do a cheap CMB ticket. So before my fall semester I started to search for who was able to ticket my CMB ticket. I tried talking to my local TA and they were unable to ticket a CMB ticket for me. Then I resulted into FT. When I was planning the trip the TG F fare was available. My routing was going to be CMB-SIN-BKK-NRT-LAX-SFO-NRT-BKK-HKG-TPE-SIN-CMB. I was ready to ticket my ticket. But I went to bed and the next morning when I woke up, I got an e-mail saying that TG has pulled the fare. So I resulted into the OZ F fare. My final routing was CMB-SIN-HKG-ICN-JFK-SFO-LAX vv. When I was trying to ticket my credit card got rejected. After a couple of calls to the credit card companies it was set. Then I called UA for an award ticket to CMB. I was going to be in BKK during the end of the year anyways. So I was able to get BKK-SIN-CMB vv using 40k miles in SQ F. The problem was that SIN-CMB was in Raffles. This segment was finally in F when I was in BKK 3 days before the start of my trip. I had to go to the UA BKK office to get my ticket endorsed.
I should tell you that the purpose of this trip was to get NH Platinum. I want the Super Flyers Card so I can pay a yearly fee and maintain *G without flying. Because my 1K will expire Feb 2008.
Well I randomly get a call from OZ to my cell phone around October. I was about to head out to school early, but it was from the revenue department. They started to ask why I bought this ticket and why did I ticket this ticket in the east coast when I lived in the west coast. The outcome of the call was that I must start the ticket in CMB if I threw away segments it will incur a HIP (highest intermediate point) check. I was okay. Then 12 hours after the call that’s when the OZ F fare ex CMB got the SOTO restriction.
I won’t bore you to death with other details. But I left the US on December 18th SNA-SFO-KIX. Then from KIX-SIN-BKK on Dec 30th on SQ Y (I have the menus for these segments, but they are in BKK right now)
The night before my departure I pack up. I wasn’t going to check in any bags on my whole trip so my rollerbag and one duffle bag was going to get me through the whole itinerary. “RING RING” I was half asleep and I managed to get out of bed at 7.30am in the morning to take a shower. The night before I was playing Wii until 1am. It was going to be my first time leaving from the new BKK airport. So I wanted to get there early and leave some cushion in case anything happens. After I get out of the shower I say my good byes to my Mom and Dad. They wished me good luck on the trip. Before leaving my Dad told me to use the hotel limousine to get to the airport. To my luck the hotel limousine was already transferring passengers. So I had to result into using a Taxi. Well there was a Taxi right away so no problem. I started talking to the taxi cab guy. (I have no problems with striking up conversations with people). He was saying the new airport was far.
I get to the airport at 8.30am. At least my taxi cab driver didn’t go over 120km/h. I had a taxi cab driver who went 150km/h before I was scared. I told the cab driver to stop by door #6. I walked in and went directly to the SQ checkin row. I forget which row it was either F or H or G? I’m too lazy to look it up. There was someone already checkin at the F counter. So I walk over to the Raffles desk and give my paper ticket and passport. She had no problems checkin me in. I asked about what aircraft was going to operate this sector. I checked SQ homepage and it was showing a 744 the night before. To confirm she told me it was a Megatop! Yay. A swap from a 773 to a 744. Skysuite for 2 hour hop to Singapore! After checkin and asking to get a couple priority tags to laminate for fun, I went around the airport to see what they had. I went down one flight of stairs to the food section. Since I didn’t have breakfast yet I was hungry. I didn’t purposely overeat because I knew I was going to be fed well on SQ. I choose to eat BBQ pork over rice. Aka Char siew. Then after that I walked back up to the and bought the 500baht departure tax. I went through to the immigration. Of course being me I have to be unlucky and choose the slowest agent who was doing the passport check. Oh well it took an extra 2 minutes. Since I was on the very right side of immigration the walk to the TG F lounge was far. I had to walk through the whole airport duty free area. This airport seriously needs to get rid of some of these stores there is no place to walk. The aisles are too small and also the airport is too hot. The a/c needs to be fixed!
After I finally found the sign to the TG F lounge before I could get to the escalators there was a guy checking the boarding pass to see if he could let me through. Then I walk down the lounge area. I got to the TG C side and the lady told me to walk down this long passage way. Finally when I got to the end I found the entrance to the TG F lounge!
They immediately let me in the TG F side. As soon as I entered I enquired about using the internet. I needed to check on the situation with meeting people. To my surprise I had two PM’s from SQT. I was planning to meet Savage25 after my arrival into SIN before I cleared immigration. As soon as I sat down the lady asked me what I wanted to drink. I got some OJ. After checking the PM I went to see what kind of foods they had on offer. I got to the food area and there were 3 people waiting to serve. I just told them what I wanted and it was served to my computer desk. Let me inform you that there was about 30 people working there. They were waiting to serve us. The lounge never had more than 10 people there. Including 5 people from my SQ segment.
After checking e-mail’s, grades, FT, a-net, news, some instant messages. I got tired of the internet. Let me say that I didn’t use internet for almost 6 days. I used it for about 5 minutes to send a PM the night before, but that was it. Then it was time for me to walk around the lounge to explore. I went to check out the shower room. There was a sleeping room
The sleeping room is still under construction.
I got sick of being in the lounge and left to the gate early. I went to the gate at 10.30am when. That’s when the aircraft was arriving. The incoming flight was about 15 minutes late.
I took a snap of this photo while I was waiting for the aircraft to get serviced for the return portion of the flight.
More to come
Before I start details might be left out because I’m writing this 5 days later and 8 segments later and doing this from memory.
Background information
It was back in August when I started to plan this trip. After buying three 129all in LAX-JFK UA MR tickets it was finally time for me to do a cheap CMB ticket. So before my fall semester I started to search for who was able to ticket my CMB ticket. I tried talking to my local TA and they were unable to ticket a CMB ticket for me. Then I resulted into FT. When I was planning the trip the TG F fare was available. My routing was going to be CMB-SIN-BKK-NRT-LAX-SFO-NRT-BKK-HKG-TPE-SIN-CMB. I was ready to ticket my ticket. But I went to bed and the next morning when I woke up, I got an e-mail saying that TG has pulled the fare. So I resulted into the OZ F fare. My final routing was CMB-SIN-HKG-ICN-JFK-SFO-LAX vv. When I was trying to ticket my credit card got rejected. After a couple of calls to the credit card companies it was set. Then I called UA for an award ticket to CMB. I was going to be in BKK during the end of the year anyways. So I was able to get BKK-SIN-CMB vv using 40k miles in SQ F. The problem was that SIN-CMB was in Raffles. This segment was finally in F when I was in BKK 3 days before the start of my trip. I had to go to the UA BKK office to get my ticket endorsed.
I should tell you that the purpose of this trip was to get NH Platinum. I want the Super Flyers Card so I can pay a yearly fee and maintain *G without flying. Because my 1K will expire Feb 2008.
Well I randomly get a call from OZ to my cell phone around October. I was about to head out to school early, but it was from the revenue department. They started to ask why I bought this ticket and why did I ticket this ticket in the east coast when I lived in the west coast. The outcome of the call was that I must start the ticket in CMB if I threw away segments it will incur a HIP (highest intermediate point) check. I was okay. Then 12 hours after the call that’s when the OZ F fare ex CMB got the SOTO restriction.
I won’t bore you to death with other details. But I left the US on December 18th SNA-SFO-KIX. Then from KIX-SIN-BKK on Dec 30th on SQ Y (I have the menus for these segments, but they are in BKK right now)
The night before my departure I pack up. I wasn’t going to check in any bags on my whole trip so my rollerbag and one duffle bag was going to get me through the whole itinerary. “RING RING” I was half asleep and I managed to get out of bed at 7.30am in the morning to take a shower. The night before I was playing Wii until 1am. It was going to be my first time leaving from the new BKK airport. So I wanted to get there early and leave some cushion in case anything happens. After I get out of the shower I say my good byes to my Mom and Dad. They wished me good luck on the trip. Before leaving my Dad told me to use the hotel limousine to get to the airport. To my luck the hotel limousine was already transferring passengers. So I had to result into using a Taxi. Well there was a Taxi right away so no problem. I started talking to the taxi cab guy. (I have no problems with striking up conversations with people). He was saying the new airport was far.
I get to the airport at 8.30am. At least my taxi cab driver didn’t go over 120km/h. I had a taxi cab driver who went 150km/h before I was scared. I told the cab driver to stop by door #6. I walked in and went directly to the SQ checkin row. I forget which row it was either F or H or G? I’m too lazy to look it up. There was someone already checkin at the F counter. So I walk over to the Raffles desk and give my paper ticket and passport. She had no problems checkin me in. I asked about what aircraft was going to operate this sector. I checked SQ homepage and it was showing a 744 the night before. To confirm she told me it was a Megatop! Yay. A swap from a 773 to a 744. Skysuite for 2 hour hop to Singapore! After checkin and asking to get a couple priority tags to laminate for fun, I went around the airport to see what they had. I went down one flight of stairs to the food section. Since I didn’t have breakfast yet I was hungry. I didn’t purposely overeat because I knew I was going to be fed well on SQ. I choose to eat BBQ pork over rice. Aka Char siew. Then after that I walked back up to the and bought the 500baht departure tax. I went through to the immigration. Of course being me I have to be unlucky and choose the slowest agent who was doing the passport check. Oh well it took an extra 2 minutes. Since I was on the very right side of immigration the walk to the TG F lounge was far. I had to walk through the whole airport duty free area. This airport seriously needs to get rid of some of these stores there is no place to walk. The aisles are too small and also the airport is too hot. The a/c needs to be fixed!
After I finally found the sign to the TG F lounge before I could get to the escalators there was a guy checking the boarding pass to see if he could let me through. Then I walk down the lounge area. I got to the TG C side and the lady told me to walk down this long passage way. Finally when I got to the end I found the entrance to the TG F lounge!
They immediately let me in the TG F side. As soon as I entered I enquired about using the internet. I needed to check on the situation with meeting people. To my surprise I had two PM’s from SQT. I was planning to meet Savage25 after my arrival into SIN before I cleared immigration. As soon as I sat down the lady asked me what I wanted to drink. I got some OJ. After checking the PM I went to see what kind of foods they had on offer. I got to the food area and there were 3 people waiting to serve. I just told them what I wanted and it was served to my computer desk. Let me inform you that there was about 30 people working there. They were waiting to serve us. The lounge never had more than 10 people there. Including 5 people from my SQ segment.
After checking e-mail’s, grades, FT, a-net, news, some instant messages. I got tired of the internet. Let me say that I didn’t use internet for almost 6 days. I used it for about 5 minutes to send a PM the night before, but that was it. Then it was time for me to walk around the lounge to explore. I went to check out the shower room. There was a sleeping room
The sleeping room is still under construction.
I got sick of being in the lounge and left to the gate early. I went to the gate at 10.30am when. That’s when the aircraft was arriving. The incoming flight was about 15 minutes late.
I took a snap of this photo while I was waiting for the aircraft to get serviced for the return portion of the flight.
More to come
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