Trip Report : Singapore Airlines SQ231 Singapore - Sydney
Flight Details:
Flight No: SQ 231
Reg: 9V-SPG
Aircraft: Boeing 747-412
Departure Singapore [Gate B2]: 00.10
Arrival Sydney [Gate 52]: 11.05
Flight time: 7 hours 40 minutes
Distance: 6,305 kilometers or 3,404 nautical miles.
Trip Report Video: Singapore Airlines SQ231 Singapore - Sydney
Inflight video starts from 2:21 mins.
Terminal 3 Check-in
This trip report is from trip in 2008. Photos taken with Canon PowerShot S3 IS.
Arrived at airport by Taxi. The taxi driver on this trip was greedy type. Due to him arguing about tip, I forgot the DSLR camera and lens in taxi.
Called the taxi company but reply was driver took another ride and passenger took the bag. I had to check-in for the flight and let go of the loss.
Check-in had commenced.
New terminal 3
Immigration
After completing check-in, passed immigration without issues.
Duty free area
Flight schedule
Garden
Airside view
Seating area
Headed upstair for dinner
Terminal 3 Departure Flight Schedule - Flight departing from gate B2
Duty free shops close at midnight
Silverkris Lounge
Common security gates
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Terminal view
Schedule
View from smoking area
Skytrain to Terminal T1 and T2
Still undergoing construction
SQ Boeing 747-400 in Star Alliance livery
Still time for boarding
Arriving passengers heading towards immigration
Arrival immigration area
Heading towards Gate B
Koi fish pond
PlaneSpotting
Boeing 777-200 in Star Alliance livery
Ready to pushback
Butterfly garden
Closer to gate B
Security Check
Gate B1-B4 have common security check. Completed security without issues and entered waiting area.
Departure gate B2 was still not opened
Boarding
Boarding was called by seat numbers. As I was seated in the rear boarded first.
Was seated on the starboard side. Crew began service with distribution of cold towel and menu card
Pushback and DeparTure
Flight pushbacked and departed on time.
flight map
Cabin side view
Flight information
OnBoard Service
Crew began service with drinks and provided passengers with amenity kit.
Chicken roll was provided with choclate
Salmon roll
Inflight Entertainment
Being a early morning flight, fell asleep till morning.
Woke in morning and checked flight time.
Window view
Sunrise outside
Flight location
Breakfast Service
After waking, could smell the breakfast in the cabin, light was turned on. Crew began distributing breakfast.
scrambled egg with chicken sausage and potato hashbrown
Outside View
View of outside while flying over South Australia
Flight map
Somewhere over South Australia
Somewhere over Southern NSW
Wing view
Greenery closer to Eastern part of NSW
Inflight view
Crew conducted duty free sales and provided Australian immigration forms.
Arrival
Captain came on speaker and announced, soon to commence descent.
Crew commenced pre-arrival check - Window shades up, tray closed, seat upright, leg rest up, bags secured, etc
Approach was from North
Landed on runway 16R
Taxi towards gate
Closer to terminal
View of aircraft's
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Disembarkation and Immigration
After disembarking, headed towards immigration, queue had formed and took sometime to exit.
Quarantine And Exit
As I had arrived from Singapore with no declarable items, I was allowed to exit.
Got a taxi and was on my way home.
Hope you enjoyed this trip report. Thanks for reading.
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