Hello Lion City! AK705 KUL-SIN

Continuing on where I left off from the previous report, this is the second sector of my holiday, KUL-SIN.

The haze that night was really bad. Couldn't even see KLIA Tower 1 and the terminal.

After having spent the night at KLIA2 (we didn’t sleep), it was a nice and early morning flight out of Lumpur down to Singapore. The flight time was actually surprisingly very short.

Check in was already done when I was in Kuching and I have printed out the boarding pass for all of us. I find the fact that AirAsia offers various methods to check in to be quite a potential life saver. For example if I lose the physical printed boarding pass I can always reprint the boarding pass by scanning the QR code at the kiosk that I’ve downloaded into my phone.

This sector was quite exciting because we get to use the skybridge to the international pier. Was hoping for aircraft to pass underneath us but it looks like the early morning rush wasn’t in full swing anymore. Our gate was P12 which is at the east end and the last gate of the pier. By the time we reached the gate, it felt like I had been hiking all morning. Or maybe it was just my physical fitness. Heh. 

Malindo territory

We had a slight delay for departure that morning with the scheduled departure time being 8.35am. Boarding began only at 8.15am. Visibility was at 2500m that morning according to the METAR.

There were 3 flight crew in the flight deck that day and equipment used was the fairly new 1.2 year old WiFi equipped 9M-AJQ.

Seat 25F for me. MAB Boeing 738 landing runway 14R.

Pushback commenced at 8.40am for runway 15. Flaps 2 takeoff via Y2 intersection. Taxied via U5 Z Z3 and Y.

Taxied past some of AirAsia X’s big birds and came across 9M-XXF (Visit Malaysia Year livery) at remote bay Q18. I noticed in some recent videos that she has been there for quite some time. Anyone knows what’s gonna happen to her? 

Takeoff roll begun at 8.53am. Video can be found here.

RM9 for 3MB of mobile data. My opinion will be it’s not worth it just for a couple of selfies to post online to let everyone know what you’re doing up in the air. But it would be worth it for some urgent messaging or emails. The descent into Singapore was pretty much like flying blind. There was nothing we could see out the window until we were somewhere over Johor, an indication that we would be seeing nothing much but haze in Singapore too.

Banking right somewhere near Pasir Gudang on one of the LELIB arrival STARs for runway 20R.

Passing Tanjung Langsat Port.

Pulau Ubin in sight.

Passing Changi Beach Park and Singapore Aviation Academy.

Landed runway 20R at 9.30am , vacated W7, left onto WP and was greeted by the sight of SIA's Dugong.

Landing video here.

Taxied past not one but two Dugongs in SG50 colors. What luck!

Right onto North Cross 3…

Parked beside Jetstar Asia 9V-SJ. Shutdown at 8.35am.

All in all the flight was pretty uneventful. And the fare for this flight was only RM39 per person! Can't say it wasn't a steal. Didn’t go for any inflight meal option due to the short duration of flight and we just had breakfast before boarding. During disembarkation, the captain was out to greet passengers. Our request for a cockpit visit was politely declined by the captain out of fears that we would be posting our pictures on social media which was understandable. However I did take the opportunity to thank him for taking us safely to Singapore and congratulated him on the greaser landing.