Many of you here have known that since June 2008, I was grounded. Being a permanent resident of Canada, I had to renew the card. After the year changed into 2009, I received the notice that my PR card would be ready for pick up by the end of January. Since then, I made the plan to take a short break to South East Asia. To be sensible, I decided to make redemption. As always, planning far ahead is not a good thing in finding SQ award availability. I was able to book days off for certain days. Thus, it hinders the flexibility.
Since the announcement of the new A330 made, I had been thinking of doing the first flight training which was announced being 16th of February as the date. Therefore, I booked my days off from work around that date.
Being a risk averse, I decided to have a confirmed booking to fly into Singapore, while taking a chance of an opening of award seats on SQ. I was able to have confirmed flights on NW as paid Y and upgrade to C using miles.
Almost every day, I was diligently calling to check whether any award opened up in FC. Four days before my planned departure date to Asia, there was an O-class on SQ11. It was a really good news for me. My first transpacific flight would be on SQ. And here are the pictorial stories about my first flight after 8 months getting used to the idea of no travel.
Since the announcement of the new A330 made, I had been thinking of doing the first flight training which was announced being 16th of February as the date. Therefore, I booked my days off from work around that date.
Being a risk averse, I decided to have a confirmed booking to fly into Singapore, while taking a chance of an opening of award seats on SQ. I was able to have confirmed flights on NW as paid Y and upgrade to C using miles.
Almost every day, I was diligently calling to check whether any award opened up in FC. Four days before my planned departure date to Asia, there was an O-class on SQ11. It was a really good news for me. My first transpacific flight would be on SQ. And here are the pictorial stories about my first flight after 8 months getting used to the idea of no travel.
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