Sunday, 23 September 2007

My flight to Los Angeles

This was my itenary.

Bangalore - Singapore Departure 11:30 pm. Arrival 6:30 am
Singapore - Tokyo Departure 9:45 am Arrival 5:30pm
Tokyo - Los Angeles Departure 6:30 pm Arrival 12:20 pm

All departure and arrival times are local times.
Tokyo was not mentioned in the itenary. Was surprised when there was an additional stop.

The total journey time was about 20 hrs. I felt we were travelling against the time. U cross a day and a night but still the total time is 20 hrs. U reach a place which is behind u by almost half a day. U leave on sep 1st night and u reach there on sep 2nd noon. Strange.. Isn't it. but thats how it is. All dependent on rotation of earth and time at various places.

This was my first international flight experience. Singapore airlines. It is a First class flight. The service is too good. I liked it. But they feed u so much that you will definitely skip one time meal. So much of variety of drinks like juices(variety of juices again), coffee, tea, coke, wine, whisky, soda, iced tea etc...

What i did not like is you have to get down in every stop and check in again. I did not understand why the customers will be troubled like this. It is the same flight they will have to check in again everytime but from a different platform. May be they want to clean the flight.

The flight has a screen in front of every seat. They have programmed their systems so well that you can either select audio, video or games. In audio, u can listen to music or even radio stations. Each station plays a predefined list of songs. In video too u have a list of channels programmed to telecast movies in 5 languages - English, Chinese, Japanese, Tamil and Hindi.

I watched cheeni kum movie for about 2 hrs. As I was excited about my first travel, I did not get sleep for that much time. It was a late night flight. Later for the rest of the flight time, I slept. So much of sleep. hehehe.. do not call me Kumbakarna's sis. They used to wake me up to serve food. I donno how.. but I used to be hungry by the time they served the food. When I was in Bangalore, I must say i hardly used to eat there. But i used to sleep a lot there too. people used to envy me for this habbit of mine. I get nice sleep irrespective of the place I am in.

hmm.. reached Los angeles on time.. The runway in los Angeles is too long. Ohh man.. so long.. compared to Bangalore, Singapore and Tokyo airport run ways.

Finally i got out of the flight after 20 long hours of journey. kinda happy that i reached.

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