Even though we had pushed back, we were number 7 for takeoff, which means another 15min of taxiing to Rwy20C. Some of the planes taking off ahead of us includes:
SQ B772
CX B744 to HKG
3K A320
MI and another SQ behind.
And finally we were off, almost 45min behind schedule.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmpvVcoG_I
Climbing.
Post takeoff service announcement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFRWy4KVJxQ&feature=plcp
And it was time to fire up the Krisworld entertainment system. Not sure if it is my personal preference, but I find the selection of movies offered for the month of August rather poor. What's with the offering of 8 movies from the Avengers series?? In the end, I settled for the comedy "Mirror, Mirror" starring Julia Roberts. In comparison, I find QF's entertainment system to have much more variety of movies and serials compared to SQ.
Cabin Service: Initially, I mentioned that my first impression of the set of crew was not too great, well they remained that way (especially the junior crew) for the rest of the flight. Very robotic service from the junior crew members and even lack of smiles from some. Most were just going through the motions with few, if any, interactions with passengers. Really not up to the usual high SQ standards. During boarding earlier, a FSS was only eye-powering rather then settling pax or assisting with bags. A stark contrast from my recent Jetstar flight where the crew were much more proactive during boarding. And the full-load up did not really help either.
Bar service was offered first using bar carts. Each pax got 2 packets of nuts. I had an apple juice to go along. No alcohol for me so early in the day.
Cruising above clouds.
Lets take a look at the menu today.
As the fish option doesn't sound too appetising, I went for the Japanese curry.
Marinated seafood with penne pasta salad. Tasted quite fishy.
Cheese, crackers and butter. And SQ had changed the roll to a soft roll instead of the previous hard roll!
Japanese style chicken curry with steamed rice. Just very average and tasted similar to those bought-off-the-shelf japanese curry mix. Quite similar to what I had months back for Jetstar's BOB meal too!
