Journey –
HKG-SIN
Flight no. –
CX739
Class –
Business
Seat –
Yes there was one
It is a reasonably early start for the flight, although as I had packed and repacked we had time for one last breakfast in the lounge and checked out whilst our bags were collected and taken down to the waiting car.
The drugs were still keeping mrssimongr in and out of wakefulness and the journey to the airport was most certainly out. This is another super quick journey to the airport (surely as fast at the Airport Express) so we get to HKG with plenty of time to spare.
Mrssimongr is certainly getting used to the F class check in at HKG but the in-progress refurbishment of the airport is a little disappointing – the least they could have done knowing this was the The
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Trip would be to have finished these works a little sooner.
Mrssimongr is pretty wiped out so it is straight into the Wing for a spot of breakfast (no BBQ pork buns again
- at the Wing or at the Conrad). We duck out for a little shopping (we don’t buy anything though) and then head to gate 4 – realising a little late that we still have at least 25 mins to boarding and Gate 4 is next to the Wing. So it is back to the Wing and the J lounge so I can look out over the gate lice and keep track of impending boardage. Mrssimongr is out of it so she snoozes whilst I grab a quick Asahi.
Just time to finish that and it is time to board. This is a regional config 2-3-2. We have the middle seats and the one between us is blocked out. In retrospect I should have sat in the middle seat next to mrssimongr but I did not think about that at the time. There is in fact plenty of room in these regional seats even if it is not AVOD and lie flat. Not bad for a relatively short flight.
The cabin crew are their normal excellent standard – wine flows, ice cream sort of lurks solidly in the pot and Jack Black kicks butt as Kung Fu Panda. The main meal itself was a little uninspiring – and the garlic bread does seem to be getting thinner. Mrssimongr sleeps the entire journey pretty much from embarkation to disembarkation. I am nervous that I might have to carry her off for the transit through SIN. Thankfully she wakes just as we start do final landing preparations.
So awake and alert we begin the SIN transit. I have been through SIN a few times, but not like this (i.e. direct exit from SIN or transit on same aircraft) so I am a little disoriented. I think we could have made it to the Cinema but not knowing the rules of engagement there, I did not want to risk trying it, having a long walk to get to it and then not being allowed in – or the movies being cr4p.
Again we have another unsuccessful shopping effort (hurrah) so we are forced to go directly to the lounge – which is completely empty – we are literally the only people in there. I guess we must be between flights. Mrssimongr is straight back to sleep on a large sofa whilst I play “hunt the bubbles”. Unlike the lions of the Serengeti my search does not involve hours of patient waiting for a young gazelle to stagger past – so not long after having struggled with the byzantine wireless connections I watching TV and sipping champagne.
Progressively the lounge fills up with transit and direct exit pax whilst I fill up on champers and cheese and mrssimongr fills up on the lovely chicken curry that is being brought around.
Finally this is it, the final flight of The
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Trip. In order to beat the rush we try and leave before boarding is called – and it is called just as we leave the lounge. We are finally heading home – and there is just one more seat in First for us to look forward to…