Singapore Airlines is perhaps the best airline I've flown so far. The service was very good, the food selection was quite wide and the number of moves playing was large. If a stewardess can't do something right now she asks if she can come back later to bring you this or that. The interesting thing is that they remember and do come back.
Hot towels were passed around at the start and the end of each flight. The passed out a menu of the choices for meals that was very detailed. The menu selection is tailored to the palate of the place you are coming from and going to as is the selection of onboard entertainment. As we flew from Melbourne to Singapore they offered Singapore cuisine and several English-language movies. Real glasses are used as well as metal flatware. They served ice cream at the end of the meal which is something I don't think I'd seen before.
The Singapore airport has an impressive array of shops and there are free Internet kiosks all over the place. I bought a 128MB disk on key for about US$28 for work. There was a fast food sushi place with the plates on a conveyor belt between the booths and I finally saw how they keep track of who ate what. I never understood how they calculate the bill before but this time I realised that the items are on plates that are different colors. To calculate the bill they simply come over and count the plates and note the colors.
The flight to Mumbai (Bombay), India had a large selection of Bollywood flicks and there was an Indian vegetarian meal choice. I had the Kadi Morg Palaw which was Chicken in Persian rice with a lentil mash. They provided a side of pickled mango chutney which is a bit like Israel's amba. I spent too much of my time playing Nintendo on the back of the seat of the person in front of me when I should be sleeping. I really should see if they have a way to block out the Nintendo for my seat next time.
Posted by David at March 18, 2005 01:51 PM | TrackBack