June 30th 2008
KHI – SIN
SQ460
ETD 1535
ETA 1945
Flight time 6:00

This is my first TR, so be nice all right? This’ll be a photo heavy one, since I’m not a fan of much writing

My second trip to Karachi in 6 months, the last time I went there was in December. If some people might remember that was at the time when the ex-PM Benazir Bhutto was killed, so effectively I was stuck at my hotel for 2 nights. Then, I was flying with TG. I did try moving the date earlier, but the flight ended up getting cancelled. Anyway, that’s then, and this is now.

This was a last minute decision, and I booked my flights on the 29th for travel on the 30th. We ended up using SQ miles to book the flight. The reason to go there? To eat, eat and eat some more. Pakistan has some of the finest (in terms of flavours, not hygiene) eateries, and those flavours can’t be recreated outside of the country. Trust me, I’ve experience in finding good food in a multitude of countries and nothing can match the flavours from back in Pakistan.

We left our car in Changi’s 2B parking, since it was only a 2 day trip. Checked in and got the seats 47K, basically the 3 seats on the starboard side of row 47. Unfortunately, I forgot to check when I was reserving the seats that the seats were over a wing. Damn. Ah well not to worry.

Boarding was pretty quick, and the flight consisted of: 10% ‘foreigners’, and 90% Pakistanis, of which there was an equal mix of Pakistanis that lived abroad (Like myself) and others that were returning home after a holiday from the chaos.

The flight took off, with a 10 minute delay, but made up for it on the way. The crew was friendly, like all SQ crew is. The food, was either a choice between:

Murgh Makhani
Beef Goulash

I had the Goulash, and I must say that I loved the mash and vinaigrette. The beef was substandard, and slightly undercooked. The dessert was an ice cream, which was pretty nice. I am seeing however that SQ has taken away the Walls Magnum, and replaced with it a local brand, Kings. Cost cutting is rife in the airline industry.






Obligatory leg photo









Note the A310 of the UN




Flying over Malaysia
The remnants of my Beef Goulash.
Flying over India

Something that really irked me in the flight was the lack of AVOD on this bird. I started watching 21, which I have to conclude, was a nice movie but slightly predictable at times, but after finishing the movie I realized that everything was running in a loop, like the pre AVOD era. We certainly have been spoilt by the vast offerings in IFE. I ended up catching Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares about a curry house in Nottingham. Interesting.

Time passed by slowly, I ended up creating my own IFE by watching Top Gear on my macbook (bless their long lasting batteries!).

Landing was swift, and straight in from India and Hyderabad. Barely any turns, and not like I like it. I like a landing to be full of manoeuvres.

Somewhere over Hyderabad, descending to land. As you can see, a lot of haze, basically pollution from the nearby industrial city of KHI.








PIA’s personal graveyard of aircraft. A bit like the Mojave desert right?



Something that really irked me in the flight was the lack of AVOD on this bird. I started watching 21, which I have to conclude, was a nice movie but slightly predictable at times, but after finishing the movie I realized that everything was running in a loop, like the pre AVOD era. We certainly have been spoilt by the vast offerings in IFE. I ended up catching Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares about a curry house in Nottingham. Interesting.

Time passed by slowly, I ended up creating my own IFE by watching Top Gear on my macbook (bless their long lasting batteries!).

Landing was swift, and straight in from India and Hyderabad. Barely any turns, and not like I like it. I like a landing to be full of manoeuvres.

And to end the TR, some photos of Karachi.



















Thanks for reading!