Let me just say that I love Changi Airport, the efficiency is amazing. Last week I was in Singapore and had a seat on QF 71 back to Perth departing Changi at 1945hrs.
The problem was that I also had to fly to KL for a lunch meeting on the same day (side note: the Australian staff working at the Hilton in KL are fantastic) which meant that I was due to return to Changi at 1820hrs. This left me some time (but not a lot) to disembark, clear immigration, collect my bags that I had deposited at the baggage holding service, jump on the train and get across to terminal 1, race down the other end of the terminal to the QF check-in counter and check-in before it closed for the flight (another side note: I really thought that I would get questioned by the immigration staff when I re-entered Singapore given that I wasn't a transit passenger and my immigration card said Zero days for time spending in Singapore - I was going to write 30 minutes but decided against it - still, no questions).
Anyway, sitting at KL airport waiting for my flight having made a mad dash from the City to the airport (yet another side note: We had to grab a Limo from the city to the airport so that we would make it on time (I don't trust the reliability of the taxi's in KL) but if you haven't caught a limo in KL before don't expect too much - I think our limo was a 1980's datsun with leather seats and I suspect it was the leather seats which allowed them to call it a limo). Back to the story...Murphey's law, the plane was late arriving into KL and we departed 20 minutes behind schedule. We had F seats on the flight to KL but could only get Y seats on the flight back to Changi but thankfully we at least had row 9.
To cut a long story short, we were still on the aircraft waiting to disembark at Changi at 1835hrs (QF 71 due to depart at 1945hrs)...I honestly thought I would be spending another night in Singapore. However, at 1900hrs I was sitting at the departure gate for my flight home!! Notwithstanding a mad race through Changi airport I was incredibly impressed that it all went so smoothly (25 minutes to get off the plane, clear immigration, collect baggage, catch train to next terminal, check-in with QF, clear immigration again and get to gate 19).
Just to make it all that more perfect, the flight was half empty so I had a row of 4 seats to myself and the AVOD worked perfectly for the entire flight!!
The problem was that I also had to fly to KL for a lunch meeting on the same day (side note: the Australian staff working at the Hilton in KL are fantastic) which meant that I was due to return to Changi at 1820hrs. This left me some time (but not a lot) to disembark, clear immigration, collect my bags that I had deposited at the baggage holding service, jump on the train and get across to terminal 1, race down the other end of the terminal to the QF check-in counter and check-in before it closed for the flight (another side note: I really thought that I would get questioned by the immigration staff when I re-entered Singapore given that I wasn't a transit passenger and my immigration card said Zero days for time spending in Singapore - I was going to write 30 minutes but decided against it - still, no questions).
Anyway, sitting at KL airport waiting for my flight having made a mad dash from the City to the airport (yet another side note: We had to grab a Limo from the city to the airport so that we would make it on time (I don't trust the reliability of the taxi's in KL) but if you haven't caught a limo in KL before don't expect too much - I think our limo was a 1980's datsun with leather seats and I suspect it was the leather seats which allowed them to call it a limo). Back to the story...Murphey's law, the plane was late arriving into KL and we departed 20 minutes behind schedule. We had F seats on the flight to KL but could only get Y seats on the flight back to Changi but thankfully we at least had row 9.
To cut a long story short, we were still on the aircraft waiting to disembark at Changi at 1835hrs (QF 71 due to depart at 1945hrs)...I honestly thought I would be spending another night in Singapore. However, at 1900hrs I was sitting at the departure gate for my flight home!! Notwithstanding a mad race through Changi airport I was incredibly impressed that it all went so smoothly (25 minutes to get off the plane, clear immigration, collect baggage, catch train to next terminal, check-in with QF, clear immigration again and get to gate 19).
Just to make it all that more perfect, the flight was half empty so I had a row of 4 seats to myself and the AVOD worked perfectly for the entire flight!!
I would have had a more luxurious experience in any one of the cafe's throughout the terminal.
