Well, it's nearly a year and a half since I last wrote a trip report and since then I've been enjoying the benefits gained by attaining silver BAEC status. An all-pervasive sense of smugness at airports being chief among these. In July this year I got married and this meant that while my soon-to-be wife was organising the wedding, I was preoccupied with the equally important task of organising the honeymoon. It was decided that a trip to SE Asia was on the cards, especially since we would appear to be just about the only millenials who hadn't yet been to Thailand and, as luck would have it, a rather nice ex-EU (ex-AMS more specifically) fare to BKK cropped up. In spite of my somewhat cunning use of our honeymoon to maintain status, my fiancee still agreed to marry me.
Fast-forward a year and my wife and I are sitting in Newcastle airport waiting to catch our positioning flight to AMS with KLM (in economy - the horror!) and will soon be embarking on a not-entirely-conventional route from NCL to BKK - via AMS, LHR and KUL with a spot of HKG on the way back.
We're planning to update this thread more or less as we go so feel free to join us (virtually only, please)!
The route
Tuesday the 18th
Flight 1: KL960 NCL-AMS
Aircraft: PH-EXA (Embraer ERJ-190STD)
Seats: 11F/11D
Wednesday the 19th
Flight 2: BA439 AMS-LHR
Aircraft: G-EUYI (Airbus A320)
Seats: 3F/3D
Flight 3: BA33 LHR-KUL
Aircraft: G-ZBKG (Boeing 787-9)
Seats: 7A/7B
Thursday the 20th
Flight 4: MH780 KUL-BKK
Aircraft: 9M-MLG (Boeing 737-8H6)
Seats: 2A/2C
Sunday the 23rd
Flight 5: FD3223 (AirAsia) DMK-KBV
Aircraft: HS-ABN (Airbus A320-216)
Seats: 22A/22B (economy!)
Friday the 28th
Flight 6: FD3211 (AirAsia) KBV-DMK
Aircraft: HS-ABO (Airbus A320-216)
Seats: 21F/21E (economy!)
Flight 7: FD644 (AirAsia) DMK-HAN
Aircraft: ?? (Airbus A320-216)
Seats: 22A/22B (economy!)
Wednesday the 2nd
Flight 8: FD871 (AirAsia) HAN-CNX
Aircraft: ?? (Airbus A320-216)
Monday the 7th
Flight 9: CX712 BKK-HKG
Aircraft: B-LAR (Airbus A330-300)
Seats: 19A/20A
Monday the 7th
Flight 10: BA32 HKG-LHR
Aircraft: ?? (Boeing 777-300ER)
Seats: 16A&B / 16E&F