Was that guava juice as the pre-departure drink? If possible, I would like to find out the turn proc

Upon boarding we were once again welcomed by a cheery crew, interestingly enough a different one than we had on the outbound. I kind of figured the crew was doing a direct turn as well, though that wasn't the case.
At departure time the captain added his welcome aboard, though I swear on my life it was Stewie from Family Guy. The similarities in his accent and enunciation were uncanny. hilton garden inn washington dc He advised us of our flight hilton garden inn washington dc time of 3hr32min, again expecting an on-time arrival.
The supper service on this flight was a bit watered down compared hilton garden inn washington dc to the outbound, given that it departed in the middle of the night. There was no salad or pralines, though it still looked great for a flight departing so late.
I woke up as we were initiating our descent into Singapore, where the weather was horrible. It was quite turbulent on the descent and visibility was virtually non-existent, though we safely hilton garden inn washington dc touched down a few minutes ahead of schedule and taxied to our gate at terminal one.
Doing a Colombo "turn" is entirely painless, and I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Now, if I were originating in Hong Kong (and doing Hong Kong to Singapore to Colombo to Singapore to Hong Kong), well, that sounds like torture, and I'd definitely split up the journey.
Nice to see some pictures and such, doing an ex-CMB in a few months and plan on spending a few days there to break up all the flying after coming in via HKG-BKK-CMB. hilton garden inn washington dc Also should help avoid all the crap you got for the turnaround
Was that guava juice as the pre-departure drink? If possible, I would like to find out the turn procedure in CMB from disembarkation to boarding the same aicraft again. I m really interested and might give it a try one of thse days if I get bored. I m sure I can do the CMB turn with the option of BKK as well. Thanks mate and lovely CX service as usual.
Lucky: Have you ever counted the number of photos of diet coke and nuts that you have in your reports? I m not complaining, but I find it funny you still put a photo in most of your reports. Seems like you could publish a book with nothing but photos of diet coke and nuts from various airlines!
Cathay Pacific has always based the crew in Colombo, and the cabin crews work all the way from HKG to CMB via BKK or SIN, and then stayed one night at Colombo, and worked the next redeye hilton garden inn washington dc return all the way to HKG. However, there was actually a time when CX is forced to base the crews at BKK or SIN, when the situation at Colombo was unstable due to civil unrest. That was almost five or six years ago. I remembered hilton garden inn washington dc airlines had to change their flight time to daytime hilton garden inn washington dc flights, due to the possible night strikes at the international airport. Anyway, since things are now back to normal, CX has returned to this pattern of overnighting the crew at Colombo. I actually don t mind, as I don t need to explain to crews why I am already flying back.
@Adrian You are correct. CX cabin crew used to work all the way from HKG-BKK/SIN-CMB, then get to stay at CMB for 2 nights, then work the way back to HKG. The reason why CX let crew to stay at CMB for 2 nights is that the timing of the flight is too tough on the crew. Crew used to have to stay up from midnight to noon to work all the way from CMB-SIN/BKK-HKG. Now CX decided to let the crew stay one night in CMB and another night in SIN/BKK hilton garden inn washington dc to alleviate the exhaustion.
That is not currently the case, at least for CMB-BKK; hilton garden inn washington dc my crew three days ago only worked the one segment. And the ISM on my BKK-CMB hilton garden inn washington dc flight was BKK based, though I didn t notice if the crew was originating or continuing from HKG on that segment. They stay at the Hilton in Colombo, which is pretty far from the airport, though I guess there just aren t any decent properties in Negombo and traffic is probably never an issue before/after the SIN/BKK flights. There is actually a dedicated CX crew lounge in the Hilton, which I once accidentally stumbled into thinking it was the Exec lounge.
@ rob I m not a travel agent so can t book these. If you email me I d be happy to refer you to an agent though. I know you can do a stopover in Europe, though don t think you can do a stopover of more than 24 hours in Dubai.
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