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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Silk Air Langkawi to Singapore on Airbus A320, Langkawi International Airport

Very soon, it was time to head back to Singapore. A short but fun trip to Langkawi. I flew here on Air Asia but I am flying home on Silk Air, which is Singapore Airlines regional subsidiary. I don't fly Silk Air very often, so this would be interesting. SilkAir operates a short-haul fleet, currently a mix of Airbus A319, A320 and Boeing 737.

However, I think they have ordered the upcoming Boeing 737-MAX and will phase out their Airbus fleet over time. Before the fight, here is a video of the Langkawi international airport. We had some time at the airport, but it was a small airport. There was time for a meal (some dinner) before the flight.

The departures from Langkawi airport this evening.

A Malaysian flag hanging from the roof of the terminal. Malaysia Boleh!

Check in counters.

Starbucks at the Langkawi International airport. Quite well patronized.

This was my Kampung style Fried Rice from a restaurant on the 2nd floor of the airport terminal.

A view of the terminal from the 2nd floor.

After security. This airport did not have any aero-bridges. We would need to walk on the tarmac to the plane, just like when we arrived.

Let me proceed to the flight itself. It was on a Silk Air Airbus A320. A short flight, just 1hr 15 minutes. Here is the video flight review. In the review, I show you the snack as well as the inflight enterntainment studio system that requires you to use your own device to stream the movies. I used my iphone to try some movies, just to see whether it worked, and it did. SilkAir planes are not fitted with any IFE screens so if you want to watch any movies, you would have to use your own device. Anyway, the selection wasn't great.

At my seat in Economy.

Cabin crew at the back galley. Only the front door of the aircraft was opened. The crew would have flown in from Singapore earlier, since Silk Air does not have a change of crew in Langkawi.

On board an Airbus A320 aircraft.

Obligatory legroom photo.

The flight back to Singapore was short and uneventful, which wasn't a bad thing. Immigration control at Changi was quite empty, which was a relief. I wanted to get home quickly.

As I did not have any check-in luggage, after immigration, I got out to the public area quickly and headed to the taxi stand. The line was not too long and it moved quite fast. Within 5 minutes, I was in a taxi on the way home. Thank God for safe travels. Thanks for reading!

Saturday, March 1, 2014

SilkAir Flight - Singapore to Kota Kinabalu and return

Silk Air is a regional full service airline owned by Singapore Airlines, operating out of Singapore to regional destinations. This blog post consists of some pictures from a SilkAir flight I took in early 2012, from Singapore to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah and back.

That is our SilkAir plane at the gate, at Changi Airport.

We would be flying on the Airbus A319 today.

This was the light meal (breakfast) served onboard. It was a morning flight from Singapore Changi to Kota Kinabalu.

An eventful flight. Landed at Kota Kinabalu International Airport. Kota Kinabalu is the capital of the state of Sabah, East Malaysia. The Kinabalu National Park is located about 90km from the city. We would be climbing Mount Kinabalu on this trip. Click here to read my blog post on that fantastic climb.

This was my first visit to Kota Kinabalu and I had expected a small airport. However, I was impressed by a new airport, serving almost 7 million passengers a year.

Here are some pictures from our flight back, from Kota Kinabalu to Singapore.

The jam on the other side of the road looked rather serious.

Approaching the airport.

Here was my boarding pass. It was a 11:00am flight back to Singapore on 15 Feb 2012.

That was the SilkAir aircraft that would bring us home this morning.

I was trying to figure out whether the pilots were already onboard. The answer was yes.

I think for these short-haul flights, the pilots don't even leave the aircraft. The flight time was 2hr 20 minutes.

The pilots looked busy.

I must have been taking these pictures from the aero-bridge while walking towards the aircraft door.

And we take off.

I see AirAsia aircraft.

I was told that was the old terminal. We had used the new terminal complex. Given that AirAsia was a low-cost carrier, it wasn't surprising that they were still using the old terminal to save costs.