While I got about 4-5 hours of sleep on the plane, at this point I am pretty cracked out.
Singapore Air's A340 executive economy class -- not bad, definitely top of the bunch as far as economy goes. I was again seated at a bulkhead/emergency exit row, but this time even scrunching down I couldn't reach it. At least 4 feet of leg room. The normal amount is much less though. This plane is also fairly small and is about 1/3 business class, which means there are a smaller amount of passengers than on most of my domestic flights I take.
Funny thing - when I boarded the plane, all of the business class people were sitting around drinking champagne. I was like "awww...." thinking that it sucks that I'mnot in business class and therefore have no champagne! Well, lucky me, after we took off, the flight attendants came around about 3 times with champagne for coach. Yay!
It reclined a bit more than an average coach seat, but the seats were nothing special. What was pretty awesome was the fact that in the back there was a "lounge" type of thing. Imagine a normal airplane galley and multiply it by about 4 times and let passengers hang around there (with food! and drinks!) and that's their lounge. Being able to go back and forth to there definitely helped on such a long flight. They also had raspberries. Mmmmm
For some strange reason, they didn't have bottles/cups of water. They had little containers that resembled jello containers, full of water. Not very fulfilling.
Changi Airport is pretty neat. I got a massage and foot massage here. (I'm currently still here and waiting around). There's a store here that looks like a candy/chocolate store.... except that instead of candy it's cured meats (picture is coming). There's a movie theatre that shows the worst of american popular movies (like Dr Doolittle 2), a bunch of nifty little gardens/koi ponds around.
Everything in the airport is in English. They seem to be wanting to attract white westerners. They have a huge picture of a family shopping at the airport - blonde hair and blue eyes. The food stands all take USD, EUR, and AUS, but not always the currencies of nearby countries. And there is a lot of sandwich and pizza places here (I've been a bit afraid to try them and have stuck with dosas for breakfast). There's also a "San Francisco" coffee shop...
Well I am soon going to be packed in a plane to Bali. Sort of strange that the transoceanic plane has less than half of the capacity as the short flight.
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It's not that they're catering for tourists so much as that English is pretty much the most common language in Singapore (technically Malay is the national language, but it isn't used much; Mandarin is fairly common amongst Singaporean Chinese, I've heard a lot more Mandarin than Malay in Singapore, but again, not as much as English or at least, "Singlish"). Most official documents, advertising, etc, tend to be in English. It's very rare to have an issue in Singapore communicating in English.
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