Hmmm, I might be able to arrange a little tour and co-ordinate it with a friend from SQ if I get some numbers. It really all depends on how sticky the police are over here and sticky they have been since 9-11. But, try I will...

As for popping over to NZ, sure. Which part of NZ are you in? I just might consider popping over for a weekend when my project goes into the lull stage.

Gary

Count me in for any airport tour behind the scenes or on the tarmac.

Is there anything planned for the Friday night? Looking like that will be my arrival.

Likewise! ^

I'm a definite maybe. Until fares come down or I can set it up as a work trip :) --yeah, I'm thinking we definitely need to expand out Singapore data center then... :) :)

Steve

Page now current with a few more names of possible attendees. We are on course for a great turnout this time. May even need nametags. :)

zvezda,
Got you down. Dinner and a ride to the airport again? ;)

newself
Dave, Would be great to see you there. Know just the place to take you on Sunday afternoon for Micros by the river.

sllevin
Steve, Those old CRAC units surely need a new inspection :) Hope you can make it.

And we have Lori_Q looking at joining the festivities also. Keep us posted on your status Lori.

Anybody else?

Half way between last time and next time now……..

Mike

Please put me down as a definite maybe

Gene,

That sir is my distinct pleasure. Page is now updated. Hope you can make it. I think dinner could get cheap for you. ;)

Mike

gfowler-ord-1k, I hope to be able to personally thank you for your efforts on behalf of the UA FT Community, in SIN next January. Another reason for me to plan on attending SIN Run 2005. :)

It looks like I'll be in SIN 11-12 July 2004 (Sunday evening). Would anyone like to try out the Pepper Crabs early?

No Signboard in Geylang. The best chili crab in town. We can take over the whole parking lot! :D

This year its pepper crab and massages ;)

At the same time?? :eek:

That's one messy massage! ;)

I know. They still have the best chili crab, however. :)

I'm up for pepper crab AND chili crab AND massages!

I'm thinking that could have been a scene from the movie "9 1/2 Weeks"

It would have caught my attention. ^

Actually, I think that may be legal.

Certainly, if you were to use different passports with different names and different FF numbers and fly on different airlines, then it would be legal. ;)

See you, and raise you a Singapore Sling... ;)

See you, and double that Singapore Sling!!!! ;)

Mike, checked the web site.. nice one! I'll join you as well for the Sunday hawker centre lunch -- can't wait to meet you all!

jenn

Jenn,

Thanks for the kind words. Making the page keeps me sort of patient as I look forward to all the goodies in January.

Got you added to the lunch page now. See you there. :-)

Mike

Another FlyerTalker from my neck of the woods. Leave it to a FT event for (fairly) local FlyerTalkers to meet. :D

Mike, add me to the Crab Do Sat night :D

mauld, YGM! :)

Michele,

Whoops. Mea Culpa. <humble shrug> This aging thing is for the birds. :)

All fixed now. You would think I could get these things right by now ;)

See you soon,

Mike

If we can find reasonable tickets, we just might do this.

This could help us deal with the new UA SWU's expiring at the end of January instead of March.

Otherwise you could just give them to me :D

We'll be there (this time I promise)
 

I am off to SIN tonight actually, anyhow, having been no shows last year, we will be there in 2005 ! Now that my job has changed, the end of financial year deadlines will no longer keep me desk bound in HKG. :)

Well I would say that is rather fantastic news!

So, January in SIN, February in PVG, New York Bar (PHT) in March maybe? :)

I shall get myself busy with updating the website very shorytly.

Welcome aboard gentlemen.

Mike

well, upgrades & cheap fares willing i'm there. i'm saving 2 swu's for this assuming it will work out.

while i hate the end of jan as expiration date i realize it's cuz unlike when it was paper & it took 2 months to get to us, this time they're actually pretty good about depositing them electronically so same amount of time in terms of use.

i do need hilton or marriott to drop their rates though - right now both showing high.

Lori_Q just told me about this. I normally don't hang out on this board. Since multiple annual SIN runs have been a must for me for several years....

...count me in as a definite definite (double wording intended). Never having attended an FT gathering, I'm looking forward to it. If fares come down, great. If not, I'll still be there.

I've been checking flights on UA RNO-SFO-SIN perhaps weekly recently. Today I notice the price has fallen from ~$1100 to $885.70 (Fare=V). This is for Jan. 13-17, which is not a 6 day stay. SFO-SIN & LAX-SIN are $721.70. I wonder if this is as good as it gets, or whether a further price decrease might be expected by waiting until the fall?

Well spotted. I'm glad you posted, as I haven't even been doing fare checks.

It's $885 out of SAN and CLD as well. I'd buy in the $700 range and get in the queue for upgrades. But a fare close to $900 bites. I'm going to keep waiting to see if the UA employees get Friends and Family certs in the fall. 15% off would certainly made any fare appealing.

Just for kicks, I checked an outbound to SIN in January, and a return from Shanghai in February. The fare popped to $1400 - so much for my hope that I could achieve a lower fare by nesting SAN-SIN/PVG-SAN and SIN-SAN/SAN-PVG.

Well this year I'll really need to push to requalify and get those SWU's for those monsters I've created :) SIN in January is a wonderful way to start.

Put me down as a maybe + 1.

Hopefully my cousin will get a fast start towards 1K status :D

BIG THANKS TO cawhite90156 who gave me the heads up on a fare less than $850, I’m IN!!! Woo-hoo!

Jan 13:
United Airlines 895 12:30pm depart ORD
Jan 14
arrive HKG 18:20
United Airlines 869 20:10 depart HKG, arriving 11:55pm into SIN

Flying out on Jan 16 via NRT, SEA, back to ORD.

Blindly confirming.....:-D
 

:D I'm going out on a limb to say I'll make it...

SinDoo here we come.... still no ticket or hotel, but we'll worry about the details later

I'll watch for fare sales n stuff as the winter approaches.

So, guess I'll see yaz there.... can almost taste the pepper crabs already

What price did the two of you find?

Wow!! it's a V fare on united.com..AMAZING!

Because I'm maxing a couple hundred extra miles by going through HKG I paid $856.

$821.70 for the v-fare, given that the Q fares have been pricing out at $1345 for the past month. Good enough for me since the upgrades are confirmed for all segments (with Sweet Willie hopefully soon to make it 3 Cgo FTers on the upper deck :cool: Which also means someone to take pictures of me climbing over the top of seat 15A enroute from HKG-SIN ;) )