And some pictures of the bed:




I took a walk around the aircraft, noticing just how full to the brim it was in Business and Economy. Every single seat was filled – apparently even the relief pilot rest seat in the Upper Deck was sold to a paying passenger. I had a nice chat with a Flight Stewardess in the upper deck and came back downstairs to my seat, but snapping a few pictures first:


A photo of the wing


The registration of today’s aircraft: 9V-SPA


My seat in reclined position

Since I managed to fall asleep straight after my meal, I wanted to chat to Kelvin as he had to prepare the cabin for takeoff when we were talking earlier on the ground. However, he had gone on his rest break and only Jasmine was there, and she seemed a little reserved as mentioned before so I went back to my seat and started watching Quantum of Solace, with a cup of the Blue Mountain.

By the time the film had finished, we were almost near Bangkok:


During this time, Kelvin had come back from his rest break in preparation for the second meal service and I chatted with him about how much I loved the F cabin on the 747 and how much I’ll miss it. I asked whether he also works on the A380 and he told me he was not yet trained for the A380 so he will be flying the 747 and 777 until they phase out enough of those aircraft for him to be trained on the A380. While I was still in the galley, I asked whether I can buy a model of the 77W to expand my collection at home and Jasmine went to bring one for me from the duty free cart further back.

After paying for the aircraft model and going back to my seat, I asked for a cup of the Blue Mountain coffee again and also some macadamia nuts – but Jasmine came back and told me unfortunately macadamias were not loaded, would I mind perhaps having some honey coated walnuts instead? I just wanted some nibbles so I said yes to the walnuts, and it was brought with the coffee. Wonderful coffee – must remember to buy some for home!



We were a shade under two hours away from Singapore when the lights were switched on and window shades were pulled up. The rest of the cabin (well, the other four passengers in First Class) started waking up for the second meal service as well. It was a very sunny sky outside and looked to be a really hot day in Singapore.