Review of Garuda Indonesia flight from Singapore to Jakarta in Economy

What I Did In Singapore

So after spending 3 days in Malaysia shopping, meeting the kids at a High-School in Gombak, performing traditional Indonesian songs and making Malaysian batik, it was time to head to Singapore

My group and I spent 2 nights in Singapore and while there we didn't do much like in Malaysia, but still did a lot.

After arriving in Singapore, we had a tour of the Singapore Management University

SMU had a library named after Lee Kuan Yew's wife

Me and this Universal Studios Singapore actor taking a photo with the incubator from Jurassic Park (faces blurred cause privacy, sorry)

Me at the Garden By The Bay

At Changi Terminal 3

After spending time at Garden By The Bay, we got to Changi Terminal 3

Inside Terminal 3, there was this strange windmill like object, is it an art installation or something.

The Terminal 3 Check In area

The flights for the afternoon and tonight, my flight can be seen from upper middle monitor

A small tangent: The list of SkyTeam members in this sign is a tad bit inaccurate. Aeroflot is still present, even though its membership is suspended, as does defunct airlines Alitalia and (recently) CSA Czech Airlines. Meanwhile, new members like ITA, Virgin Atlantic and SAS are not present (tangent over)

My ticket shown here

From the check in area, i snapped this photo of the baggage claim below

After going through immigration, we got to the many shops in Changi

Spotting

Soon enough, I went to my favorite spot for spotting in Changi Terminal 3, that being behind the Louis Vuitton at the center

A Singapore Airlines A380-800 reg 9V-SKP being prepared for a flight to Mumbai

A Qantas A330-200 reg VH-EBD arriving from Brisbane

Indigo A321-200NX reg VT-ILI arriving from Mumbai

Malaysia Airlines 737-800 reg 9M-MXQ arriving from Kuala Lumpur

Batik Air Malaysia 737-800 reg 9M-LDD arriving from Kuala Lumpur

Singapore Airlines A350-900 reg 9V-SMH arriving from Hong Kong

Singapore Airlines A380-800 reg 9V-SKT arriving from London

Qantas A330-200 reg VH-EBL (Pride is In The Air livery) arriving from Perth

Singapore Airlines A350-900 reg 9V-SMO arriving from Christchurch

Qantas A380-800 reg VH-OQA arriving on a 5th-freedom route from London-Heathrow

Vietnam Airlines A321-200 reg VN-A392 arriving from Ho Chi Minh City

Singapore Airlines A350-900 reg 9V-SJA arriving from Paris-Charles De Gaulle

Thai Airways A350-900 reg HS-THG arriving from Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi

Singapore Airlines 787-10 reg 9V-SCY departing for Shanghai-Pudong

Japan Airlines 787-9 reg JA873J arriving from Tokyo-Haneda

Heading to gate

The gate for my flight has been found

The Singapore Food Street was closed for renovations, so only Burger King and 7Eleven were available

The gate I was in was one of many gates, about 8

At the gate

Singapore Airlines A350-900 reg 9V-SHV preparing for flight to Melbourne

Air New Zealand crew members (the ones in purple and black outfits)

British Airways 787-9 reg G-ZBKL arriving from London-Heathrow

A Singapore Airlines A350-900 reg 9V-SHD arriving from Hong Kong

And finally, our plane to Jakarta arrived, reg PK-GPZ (74th Garuda Anniversary livery) arriving from Jakarta

Arriving at gate

Boarding

A couple minutes later, we started boarding

Business Class section

This is my seat, with the bigger IFE system than the 737s

Good seat pitch

Colours magazine, although the content inside is limited, I do have a need to collect them all just for fun

Cabin view from my seat

Pushback and Taxi (pardon the poor photos)

Soon, it was time for pushback

A Singapore Airlines 777-300ER

Japan Airlines 787-9 reg JA873J preparing for a flight to Tokyo-Haneda

Emirates A380-800

Qantas A330-200

A Finnair A350, Air China A330 and Scoot A320

Fiji Airways A330-200 reg DQ-FJV preparing for a flight to Fiji

Qantas A380-800 reg VH-OQA pushback for flight to Sydney

Lining up with the runway

Take off

The cabin dimly lit after take off

Meal service

10 minutes later, the lights are on as dinner commenced

The options were either fish or chicken, i chose the rice and chicken with soy sauce, complemented with a bread roll, salad and cake and a drink of choice being guava juice

Flying over presumably the Java Sea

Landing and taxi

Soon it was time for landing, the first views of Jakarta

Landing photos

The international area, with the tails of ANA, Cathay and Japan Airlines seen

Disembarking and baggage claim

We disembark a couple minutes after parking

Last shot of the business class area

Walking out of the international gates

Thus began the 20 minute long walk to the Immigration and baggage claim area

Baggag