QF36 v QF38

[flyingdoc`]

SIN-MEL

Apart from the flight times (a few hours apart), is there any practical differences between these two flights?

Planning to fly Business.

 

[jase05]

SIN-MEL

Apart from the flight times (a few hours apart), is there any practical differences between these two flights?

Planning to fly Business.

Don’t know about you but I would prefer to get in on the earlier QF36 as I’d be connecting to a domestic flight. I thinks it’s a bit more friendlier time as you can some dinner in the SIN lounge and on the aircraft if still hungry and then have a sleep onboard and arrive hopefully refreshed. That would be my preference as opposed to hanging around the airport until midnight and then getting back mid morning

 

[kpro]

My preference is usually the later flight, as I'm a late sleeper and I find it very hard to get any meaningful sleep on a flight that departs prior to 9pm. With QF36, I may only get in 2 hours of sleep before the cabin is being prepared for breakfast (~4am AEST or the equivalent of 2am in Singapore).

Looking at the schedule though, QF36 may be a 787 vs an A330 for QF38? You may prefer QF36 for the lower cabin pressurisation and the slightly updated J seat. I also agree that if you want to connect, or if you had anywhere to go or do in Melbourne in that morning, the earlier flight makes more sense.

 

[dajop]

My preference is QF 8404 Much better timing.

That aside, I take the contrary view and prefer QF38 to QF36. I say this as someone who has a bedtime of closer to midnight, and who is not a great sleeper on planes therefore if I take QF36 I simply can’t get to sleep until about 4-5 into the flight which only leaves about 1.5-2.5 hrs before being woken for landing (granted my normal time zone is Singapore).

But even back in the day when I lived in MEL and visited SIN at least once a month, I slept better on cradle seats in the midnight SQ departure then lie flat or angled lie flat seats on the early evening departure.