As expected, there were long airport security clearance lines at LAX. I suppose it can't be helped. Well, after checking in our luggage, me and my family went to the food court upstairs on the Tom Bradley International Airport. Airport food is ridiculously expensive. $8.00 for a 3 item Chinese combo meal. $2.00 for a bottle of water. My goodness.
Afterwards, we went through passenger screening. There was this cranky lady security guard supervising all of the travelers going through the metal detector. She gave directions to all of the travelers with an air of annoyance, frustration, impatience, and little sympathy. She must have been working there WAY too long. I bet she had to deal with confused and angry travelers at one point and turned apathetic like that.
Boarding onto Singapore Airlines to go to Narita was slightly delayed. Anyways, the captain pilot had the craziest English accent ever. It sounded so sophisticated, energetic, and confident. Perfect English. And guess what? He was Chinese too. Way to go on breaking Chinese-people-can't-speak-English stereotypes.
Most of the people on the flight were Japanese except for a few others like me. I'm fairly impressed the flight used both English and Japanese on the safety explanations. Also, there were a good number of Japanese speaking flight attendants. Impressive, considering that English is the official language of Singapore. They must have some great customer service to break language barriers between attendants and passengers like that.
What are my impressions of Singapore Airlines? Well, I sat in economy class, so I won't be able to explain the wonders of their first class seating. But even for economy class, there was a LCD screen in front of EVERY seat. They offered close to 80 in-flight movies along with hundreds songs from an international selection. They also offered one episode for a variety of TV shows. AND they had games you could play on the screen including Super Mario. All of these services come with the ticket price. I spent the flight watching Shooter, Letters From Iwo Jima, and The Seven Samurai. Brilliant entertainment service.
An addition, the stewardesses give you free socks for overnight flights.
For the in-flight dinner, I ate Japanese pickled vegetables, a dinner roll, soba noodles with wasabi, teriyaki salmon, and Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia. Pretty good. There was also lunch but I forgot what that was.
Afterwards, we went through passenger screening. There was this cranky lady security guard supervising all of the travelers going through the metal detector. She gave directions to all of the travelers with an air of annoyance, frustration, impatience, and little sympathy. She must have been working there WAY too long. I bet she had to deal with confused and angry travelers at one point and turned apathetic like that.
Boarding onto Singapore Airlines to go to Narita was slightly delayed. Anyways, the captain pilot had the craziest English accent ever. It sounded so sophisticated, energetic, and confident. Perfect English. And guess what? He was Chinese too. Way to go on breaking Chinese-people-can't-speak-English stereotypes.Most of the people on the flight were Japanese except for a few others like me. I'm fairly impressed the flight used both English and Japanese on the safety explanations. Also, there were a good number of Japanese speaking flight attendants. Impressive, considering that English is the official language of Singapore. They must have some great customer service to break language barriers between attendants and passengers like that.
What are my impressions of Singapore Airlines? Well, I sat in economy class, so I won't be able to explain the wonders of their first class seating. But even for economy class, there was a LCD screen in front of EVERY seat. They offered close to 80 in-flight movies along with hundreds songs from an international selection. They also offered one episode for a variety of TV shows. AND they had games you could play on the screen including Super Mario. All of these services come with the ticket price. I spent the flight watching Shooter, Letters From Iwo Jima, and The Seven Samurai. Brilliant entertainment service.
An addition, the stewardesses give you free socks for overnight flights.
For the in-flight dinner, I ate Japanese pickled vegetables, a dinner roll, soba noodles with wasabi, teriyaki salmon, and Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia. Pretty good. There was also lunch but I forgot what that was.
