29 March 2025
A very demanding flight
Adelaide to Singapore on a Singapore airlines A350
The flight was very full, not one spare seat, but that is not why it was demanding. Everyone around me kept pressing the call bell and demanding more and more stupid stuff. Bags of nuts (one guy asked for 5 bags of nuts!), extra ice creams, whisky, crackers, extra pillows, extra blankets, headphones. It was crazy, I have never seen anything like it. People were pressing the bell, waiting 5 seconds, getting frustrated that their next glass of ice had not arrived, and pressing the bell again. People were pressing it while the seat belt sign was on for turbulence parts of the flight and getting up to wave at the the stewardesses when they did not come over. All this in the cheap seats for tightarses like me.
My guess is quite a few people around me do not fly very often, Adelaide is hard to escape... and when they saw one guy get his call bell demands, they all joined in, even though the people dinging the bell were not related.
The only other boring things of note, the flight left Adelaide an hour late, but I still have plenty of time in Singapore to type this boring stuff, and then we were a bit more delayed as on descent into Singapore there was a storm over the airport so we circled for a while. There was however, no turbulence. These days they put the seat belt sign on even when they think there might be a chance of turbulence after a few high profile recent incidents.
Oh yeah, Dune II is a dumb movie. 3 hours of worm riding and I had no idea who anyone was.
Here is my jet still on the ground in Adelaide. Is it an A350 or a dreamliner? I am not sure now. I prefer the older 777 (wider) and especially the A330 (narrower but less abreast seating layout). The marketing of the newer ones are all bullshit, humans per cubic m3 always increases with every new generation jet.
If your kids misbehave in Singapore airport you can put them in a cage. And let them tire themselves out mini trampolining. Probably a lot of injuries have resulted from this.
You still cannot walk the full lap at Singapore airport, I always try, but construction is going on, one day my dream will become a reality. BTW, you can walk a full lap at the criminally underrated Taoyuan airport in Taiwan.
Today's smoking area disguised as a garden of choice is the sunflower garden. This is about the extent of it. There are a group of airport workers behind me smoking and hacking up a lung. Also I had to stand out here for 10 minutes waiting for my camera to de-fog. Going outside from the air conditioned terminal building makes the entire innards of your camera water logged.
And now this is where I am sitting. Same old lounge. It has showers these days though, but since it is a day flight for me today, no need for a shower. And now it is nearly time to board my next flight to Hong Kong, and hope to get on the last airport train into the city so I don't have to figure out the night bus.