5 March 2017
Totally full and uncomfortable
Melbourne to Singapore on a Singapore airlines Airbus A380
Normally my flight stories talk about an entire row of seats to myself. Not this time.
My 7.5 hour flight to Singapore was totally full. I do not think there was a single spare seat on the 500 seat A380. This made for an uncomfortable flight.
The cabin on these things is dated, the tv screens are old remotes attached by cord, no touch screen, and all the buttons are worn off and dont work, so I put it on the map and didnt use it.
At 2AM, they serve dinner, great, thanks for turning the light on.
3 hours later, and 3 hours before landing, they serve breakfast. So thats optimized timing to ensure no one can get any sleep at all.
My part of the cabin was fairly quiet, but people would strobe the brilliant white laser burning light on all the time because their remotes did not work. Thus waking everyone in the cabin.
Also everyone was sick. These are the end times now. Trump is the angel of death, the planning of the end of the world by bird flu now mutating to insect flu started a decade ago.
Taiwan has bird flu right now. They are killing every chicken, so I plan to eat beef. But there is no 2017 flu vaccine yet, so I will get bird flu, and enjoy my time in a Taiwanese hospital arguing that I have travel insurance that covers my Tamiflu placebo access. Perhaps I can practice speaking Chinese with the nurses, I know the word for nurse so that might turn out well.
Now I have another hour or so to kill in Singapore airport, looking at butterflies and giant goldfish, then another 5 hours to Taipei. Then a bullet train or maybe even the new airport metro!
5AM and Singapore airport is not at all busy. But things are open. 1AM Melbourne airport and it was very very busy, and every store was shut.
Inside the butterfly house, and this is the incubation pod for the world ending plague spread by insects engineered by ex Monsanto employees and people annoyed at the CRSIPR patent rulings.
I am starting early this season.