Food Galore Over SYD, with GA as the Highlight...

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The time now 2215... but the plane has not landed yet...
They flew around and around....
It was dark outside... (off course it was dark... it was night you moron... )





Finally they were landed at 2230...

But taxied to the apron also took some time...

And they were parked at a remote stand...

And it was 2245 when the door was opened.

This "kampung guy" told the purser that they have a connecting flight to Sydney that will depart exactly in one hour, and he had a nephew that sit in eY...
The purser looked concern... she told the ground staff about this matter...
The ground staff then in the rush escorted this "kampung guy" and his nephew in eY into a van, and without waiting other J pax, he drove the car into terminal building...

It took about 5 minutes since the door opened to reach the terminal building...

They thanked the driver, and rushly walk into the arrival hall....

They still got 55 minute before the next scheduled flight to Sydney...
And they still have to walk to the loooong corridor of the arrival level, and then they must went up stair to find the check in counter to check in again into their next flight...
And then they still had to pass the CGK immigration with its notorious long queue...

Will they survive this??

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It was a traditional Javanese food, "Tahu Telor" (fried tofu and egg with rice cake and bean sprouts wit dark peanut sauce)...
Don't judge from its look.... it was yummy...





The dessert was some fruits mousse jelly...




As I told you before, this "kampung guy" never felt complete without lavatory visit...
And here are the lavatory of GA B737-800...
Enjoy...








Back to the seat, this "kampung guy" checked the IFE...
But for this short hop, no use for watching the block buster movies, not enough time to finished them...
So he just watched the comedy Just for Laugh...
Btw, the head set was a battery powered active noise cancelling one...

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This "kampung guy" never forgot to pose like his "idol", the great SQFlyergirl
(Pardon him for forgetting the royalty for you, Ma'am... )




It was 2035 when finally this "kampung guy" and one of his nephew can sit comfortably at their seats on 1A an 1C...
His other nephew sit on 5C..




Ok, lets we see the seat features...









Got two (actually 3) windows for himself...




The boarding process took ages for this small B737-800...

It was almost 2100 when this plane ready to push back....
Now this "kampung guy" was getting anxious...




Luckily there was no long line for take off at SUB...
Soon they were already in the air...
And the FA was ready to serve them dinner...

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And here are the highlight of this lounge: Jamu (Jamoo: the Indonesian traditional herbal tonic)... they are good for your health...






As the "kampung guy"'s habit, no visit was complete without the toilet visit...
So, lets enjoy his visit...






Look at that FIDS.... see, their flight was delayed... and luckily, no more further delayed was intended...




The time now almost 2020, this "kampung guy" texted his nephew in the next door lounge to go to the gate, even though the boarding announcement has not been announced.

They waited at the gate lounge... It was packed...
It's gonna be a full flight....






It was 2030 when the boarding process was begun...

They rushed walk into the plane...

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And this is the "signature dish" of the domestic lounge that you can't get at the international lounge...
The infamous "Tempe Goreng Tepung Dengan Sambal Petis" (the flour battered "tempe" deep fried with spicy shrimp paste sauce)...
It was so yummy...



While they were enjoying the "snack", there was an announcement that their flight will be delayed until 2040...
Ok.. that was almost one hour delayed...
But they still relaxed... still more than one and a half hour of connecting time...

They met their fam's friends who were going to Bali that night... and there was no more empty seats...

So this "kampung guy" and one of his nephew gave their seats and moved to the Garuda Lounge next door....




The Garuda Lounge has a better interior a than the next door lounge...
It's on a calm hue tone, with blueish carpet...

And here are some view of the lounge...

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It's been ages since my last "story" here...
So, let me share another "story" with you guys here...




The story begin when this "kampung guy" 's nephew finished his study, and will have a graduation ceremony in Sydney...
And on a soooo coincident timing, Garuda had a promotion with Bank Mandiri for buy one get one free biz class ticket...
Just for around USD3,500 you will get 2 biz tickets CGK-SYD... It was quite a bargain at that time...

Just because they are 5 people, so one would be on redemption ticket, which was also sooooo coincident, GFF had a promotion too. Redemption Biz class with eY miles...

But on the last minutes, the parents couldn't leave the "kampung"...
So... there would be only three of them... and this "kampung guy" was on a "sacred mission" as an acting parent for his nephew... (but then it was turned out to be a more of a food galore than a ceremonial event... )


Ok... lets we see the map first....




And the flights would be on GA329 SUB-CGK ETD 1945 ETA 2105 and connected with GA712 CGK-SYD ETD 2345 ETA 0930+1

So there would be a plenty of time for the connecting time, 2h30m..


Some odd thing on GA's check in system was they couldn't issued the BPs of CGK-SYD sector from SUB...
So this "kampung guy" and his nephews must check in again at CGK to get the CGK-SYD BP...
But with that plenty of connecting time, they were no worried at all for that thing....

And because one of his nephew was in eY class on this short sector, and he got no access for Garuda Lounge, they decided to go to the public lounge, the Blue Sky Lounge instead of the Garuda Lounge, using their credit cards perk...




So here are some of the Blue Sky Lounge view that night...
It was crowded... but they still managed to get seat for them...














They had some "pre flight snacks" there...