Back in Singapore
Got back to Singapore on Sunday evening.
Given the flight cancellation, I thought British Airways would try to make it up. Instead, when I tried to check in, I was told the change in my ticket had not been completed. Erm... You don't say such things to anyone (customer, father, mother, friend, stranger etc) especially after a really lousy cancellation of flight and that the person had travelled a couple of hundred miles to get to Heathrow. No wonder I couldn't do an online check-in the night before. And 'because the flight was full', I was given one of those sandwiched seats in the middle row.
At the gate, I was told the 'upgraded' my seat. I was like... UPGRADE? To business class issit?
Erm... No... They upgraded me to an aisle seat.
Ok... Better than sitting in the middle... Until I saw who I was supposed to be sitting beside. A huge guy who looks like he needed 2 economy seats. And soon, I discovered that this huge guy had at least 1 extremely fuzzy arm, coz it was spilling over the arm rest and into my seat space. =_=
12.6 hours!! ROAR!!!
(Later, I saw a comment on my previous entry. Apparently, not everyone on the cancelled flight got to rest in proper accommodation. Some slept on benches. The flight was delayed for almost 20 hours! Imagine how terrible those folks felt?!)
If possible, I will not fly British Airways again. =_=
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Once the plane touched down, it was back to clockwork Singapore.
I didn't have to queue for passport-stamping coz of the walk-through fingerprint machines. Buying duty-free was a breeze. As I was trying to get a trolley, my mother appeared just 2 metres away, on the other side of the glass wall, waving at me. My cases were already conveying on the belt. They looked pretty impatient. As if I was slow.
In around 20-30 minutes, I was in the car along the expressway, exclaiming at how familiar everything looked.
If Changi Airport is now World #3 Airport, I wonder what World #1, i.e. Incheon Airport in Seoul, is like!
Posted on 6/30/2009 06:20:00 AM by BLINKYMUMMY and filed under | 4 Comments »
Given the flight cancellation, I thought British Airways would try to make it up. Instead, when I tried to check in, I was told the change in my ticket had not been completed. Erm... You don't say such things to anyone (customer, father, mother, friend, stranger etc) especially after a really lousy cancellation of flight and that the person had travelled a couple of hundred miles to get to Heathrow. No wonder I couldn't do an online check-in the night before. And 'because the flight was full', I was given one of those sandwiched seats in the middle row.
At the gate, I was told the 'upgraded' my seat. I was like... UPGRADE? To business class issit?
Erm... No... They upgraded me to an aisle seat.
Ok... Better than sitting in the middle... Until I saw who I was supposed to be sitting beside. A huge guy who looks like he needed 2 economy seats. And soon, I discovered that this huge guy had at least 1 extremely fuzzy arm, coz it was spilling over the arm rest and into my seat space. =_=
12.6 hours!! ROAR!!!
(Later, I saw a comment on my previous entry. Apparently, not everyone on the cancelled flight got to rest in proper accommodation. Some slept on benches. The flight was delayed for almost 20 hours! Imagine how terrible those folks felt?!)
If possible, I will not fly British Airways again. =_=
.............................................................
Once the plane touched down, it was back to clockwork Singapore.
I didn't have to queue for passport-stamping coz of the walk-through fingerprint machines. Buying duty-free was a breeze. As I was trying to get a trolley, my mother appeared just 2 metres away, on the other side of the glass wall, waving at me. My cases were already conveying on the belt. They looked pretty impatient. As if I was slow.
In around 20-30 minutes, I was in the car along the expressway, exclaiming at how familiar everything looked.
If Changi Airport is now World #3 Airport, I wonder what World #1, i.e. Incheon Airport in Seoul, is like!
4 comments:
can't deny how most things run like clockwork in Singapore..but we like it fast man!
Welcome Home
i hv been to incheon airpt like 3x last yr, didnt hv an extremely whoa impression on it. Normal lei.
Welcome back & best wishes for your internship.
It may seem tough being away from GF for a few weeks but with your internship and all other activities... 4 weeks will fly by very fast. Soon both of you will be together again.
Cheers,
HL
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