For the May Day long weekend holidays that just passed, I took a trip to nearby Bandung, Indonesia, just to enjoy the cool Bandung weather and feast on Sundanese cuisine. The trip was booked on SilkAir at a reasonable fare, with early departure on Saturday and evening arrival on Monday. A week prior to departure, a message was received that the departure flight was retimed from 0830am to 1020am. Then on the day before departure, the flight was again retimed from 1020am to 0950am. Reason given was due to "operational reasons".
Day of departure at Terminal 2. There is a sort of attractiveness about the T2 flipping FIDS.
Self-check-in kiosks printed boarding pass.
Departure from Gate F35, which was also shared with a SilkAir flight to Cebu departing just 10min later. This is one of the dual-docking gates at T2 for narrow-bodies.
Our B738 parked at the nearer airbridge while an A320 was parked at the other bridge.
29 April 2017
SilkAir
MI 192
Singapore (SIN) - Bandung (BDO)
B737-800
9V-MGG
Economy Class
Flight Time: 2H04M
Boarding the aircraft.
Welcomed by the crew and headed past the Business Class cabin.
Into economy class.
Settled at 22F. Legroom was probably only slightly better than the budget carriers.
View out the window.
View of seat. The seatback magazine compartment seemed redundant as the inflight magazines were still placed in the normal seat pockets.
Blankets and pillows were available on request, or help yourself from the overhead bins.
