thaia345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Posted (1 year 6 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 13190 times:
Another month, another flight for me. This time I need to hop from city to city within Europe at a rate of a city a day, therefore I decided to charter a little Citation Bravo which will stay with me during my entire stay in Europe. My long haul runs as usual are with TG in F. Enjoy
Date: 01 Nov 2011
Route: Jakarta (CGK) - Kuala Lumpur (KUL)
Flight: Malaysia Airlines MH726
ETD: 0505
ETA: 0805
Seat: 2D (Golden Club / Business Class)
Aircraft: B737-400
Flight time: 1hr 50mins
Registration: 9M-MMD
1st Flight: 20 July 1992
Preflight
After arriving from KUL, I had to leave the airport for a half day meeting. But fortunately due to the floods, my meeting location was moved from town to the Novotel Airport Hotel which made things more convenient for me. When the meeting ended I still had about 5 hours before my flight, but I decided to head to the airport anyway as I can easily pass my time at the Royal First Lounge and also get a massage at the Royal Orchid Spa.
Exclusive Royal First Class Check In Area
By the time I had my massage and meal in the lounge, it was already 2 hours to go before boarding. I just walked around the airport a bit to kill time before heading back to the lounge where my valet took me to the waiting aircraft.
Meanwhile, more views of TG F Lounge and some meals I had in the lounge
Some views of Pier C and D at BKK
Inflight
Pretty light load today with 50 percent in F, and about 60 percent in J and Y. As usual nice to be in my usual confines of TG F.
One reason why I don’t really like seat 1K is the close proximity to the galley and when asleep the galley light can get quite annoying too
Menu and Inflight Mags
After departure meal service quickly commenced and after the meal I was feeling really tired so I decided to go to bed and managed to get about 8 hours of sleep.
Bed just made and ready for me to doze off to slumberland
Woke up to sounds of breakfast being served and after breakfast I freshened up and relaxed.
Some final cabin pics
Porridge for breakfast
Soon enough we were on final descent into ZRH. Another great flight by TG.
Date: 02 Nov 2011
Route: Zurich (ZRH) - Nuremberg (NUE)
Flight: Private Jet by 247 Jet
ETD: 1240
ETA: 1324
Seat: Private
Aircraft: Cessna Citation Bravo
Flight time: 44mins
Registration: G-JBLZ
1st Flight: 2002
As I had chartered G-JBLZ for the next 4 days, I will fly a leg a day with her, so I will just keep my narration pretty short. Basically, the aircraft is a Cessna Citation Bravo and I leased her from 247 Jets that are based out of Southend Airport. Overall I had a great experience a flight with the crew who were extremely courteous and helpful.
Tarmac @ ZRH, my bird was delayed by almost 3 hours due to some delay on an earlier leg where she had to drop off some pax in Cyprus.
There she is, all mine for the next 4 days
Onboard
Owned by a University, how cool
RJ A320 turning into the active bound for Amman
Take off video http://youtu.be/xDtI1jejelw
Date: 03 Nov 2011
Route: Nuremberg (NUE) - Paris LeBourget (LBG)
Flight: Private Jet by 247 Jet
ETD: 0800
ETA: 0915
Seat: Private
Aircraft: Cessna Citation Bravo
Flight time: 1hr 07mins
Registration: G-JBLZ
1st Flight: 2002
Getting ready to go to Paris LBG
Falcon 900Ex owned by Volkswagen Group
Video of take off from NUE http://youtu.be/vOygFbeR1Ec
And we are off
Final approach into LBG
Landing video http://youtu.be/CCQfgIz8qW4
And we are off again
Beverage cabinet next to main door
Final views into Seville
Weather not too good according to the radar
Landing in SVQ http://youtu.be/8KpYWQ9IvzI
See you yet again in 24 hours
Was in Seville for the launch of the new BMW M5, and this was my ride form the Hotel to the Ascari race track
Date: 05 Nov 2011
Route: Seville (SVQ) - Paris LeBourget (LBG)
Flight: Private Jet by 247 Jet
ETD: 1653
ETA: 1918
Seat: Private
Aircraft: Cessna Citation Bravo
Flight time: 2hrs 23mins
Registration: G-JBLZ
1st Flight: 2002
Gleaming in the setting sun
And for the 3rd time in 3 days, its time for my final flight on this little bird
Take off run http://youtu.be/QNkoxH9TJv0
Good bye Lima Zulu….hope to fly you again sometime soon
Date: 06 Nov 2011
Route: Paris (CDG) - Bangkok (BKK)
Flight: Thai Airways TG931
ETD: 1330
ETA: 0615+1
Seat: 1A (Royal First Class)
Aircraft: B777-300ER
Flight time: 10hrs 37mins
Registration: HS-TKJ
1st Flight: 21 Jan 2008
Preflight
After a whirlwind trip of a different city everday, its finally time to head back home. When we reached CDG the was amazingly no queues for both customs and tax refund. But the refund and check in itself took ages. After that we just relaxed in the Star Alliance F lounge till boarding time.
Smoking area and Star Alliance F Lounge
HS-TKJ
Inflight
Its really nice to be back onboard the B777-300ER which are leased from Jet Airways. Flight is full in all classes and this is when it really doesn't matter on this bird due to the privacy doors in the F suites.
Menus
Cabin views
Seat controls
Nice huge PTV
Getting ready for push back
Take off video http://youtu.be/ClJop3gTAow
Crew were attentive an efficient as usual. Meal service
Playing with the Ife and gazing out the window between meals
Amazing views
After the meals I decided to get some sleep but somehow I kept waking up every 1.5hrs or so. In the end I decided just to stay awake about 2 hours before landing.
Good morning
Overall another great flight with a fantastic TG crew. Looking forward to ny next flight with them.
Date: 07 Nov 2011
Route: Bangkok (BKK) - Jakarta (CGK)
Flight: Thai Airways TG433
ETD: 0820
ETA: 1145
Seat: 23A (Royal Silk / Business Class)
Aircraft: B747-400
Flight time:
Registration: HS-TGG
1st Flight: 26 Oct 2003
triple7man From Thailand, joined May 2005, 679 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (1 year 6 months 1 week 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 12812 times:
Thai's 777-300ER is the airplane I like best. Even though I only fly in economy class, the legroom is good, the service is good and there is PTV for every seat. They are my first choice when I fly BKK-NRT-BKK.
On the picture over Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background, the tall building in the foreground is the Concorde Lafayette Hotel in Porte Maillot. My sister and I stayed there when we went to Paris. It has great views of Paris.
MSS658 From Belgium, joined Oct 2010, 2212 posts, RR: 14 Reply 4, posted (1 year 6 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 11030 times:
Hi
Nice trip report, enjoyed reading it! Nice to get to sample TG F on the 340 and the 777! The ex-Jet airways FC cabin looks better in my opinion than the original TG F! Nice to see you got a nice amount of private jets as well!
thaia345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 5, posted (1 year 6 months 1 week 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 10140 times:
Quoting MSS658 (Reply 4): The ex-Jet airways FC cabin looks better in my opinion than the original TG F! Nice to see you got a nice amount of private jets as well!
Thanks for reading, yes thats true, the 9W leased aircraft has a much better F cabin than TG's own F. And sadly on the A380 coming online next year, TG will also have non private F seats .....for the private jet its actually cheaper as I shared the cost between 4 friends and we had to travel a city a day in 4 days..so much cheaper than buying domestic J/C intra europe ticket.
rifkyrifky From Indonesia, joined Feb 2011, 28 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 6 months 1 week 1 day ago) and read 9937 times:
Hi,
Nice trip report & i'd really enjoyed reading it
The photo of the swiss alps (i think) is really beautiful indeed!
I think TG service always bring back a smile to you hahaha
Maybe sometime i should gave TG a try
rifkyrifky From Indonesia, joined Feb 2011, 28 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (1 year 6 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 7414 times:
Quoting thaia345 (Reply 13): Actually my pick for regional is GA...because of superior inflight products, especially on the B738
For long haul, its TG,CX and SQ in that order
yes indeed.. GA is the best for domestic & regional but.. if it long haul flight and i'm on GA if have to flown on J hahaha lol
TG & SQ is excellent but if im traveling J on CX with the old seats.. i think i will get claustrophobic & scared at the same time haha lol :-S
thaia345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 15, posted (1 year 6 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 6958 times:
Quoting rifkyrifky (Reply 14): i'm on GA if have to flown on J hahaha lol
Believe it or not, on GA new A332 J seats, there are also 2 versions. on my previous trip to Hong Kong there was a difference in the J seats on outbound and inbound flights. Outbound CGKHKG was PK-GPM (with a much more comfortable J seat) and coming back was PK-GPK with the older but still nice J seat.
Quoting rifkyrifky (Reply 14): TG & SQ is excellent but if im traveling J on CX with the old seats.. i think i will get claustrophobic & scared at the same time haha lol :-S
I absolutely hate CX's regional J products, its the worst out there amongst the Asian carries, maybe actually on par with MH's older offerings too. DOes CX actually have a plan to upgrade their regional premium products?
rifkyrifky From Indonesia, joined Feb 2011, 28 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (1 year 6 months 3 hours ago) and read 6348 times:
Quoting thaia345 (Reply 15): Believe it or not, on GA new A332 J seats, there are also 2 versions. on my previous trip to Hong Kong there was a difference in the J seats on outbound and inbound flights. Outbound CGKHKG was PK-GPM (with a much more comfortable J seat) and coming back was PK-GPK with the older but still nice J seat.
Really? I didn’t know that at all.. I thought that GA J seat on the A332 were all the same.. But I was wrong.. Maybe PK-GPK was the canceled airbus for HU and PK-GPM was for GA from the start of building the aircraft.. haha
Quoting thaia345 (Reply 15): I absolutely hate CX's regional J products, its the worst out there amongst the Asian carries, maybe actually on par with MH's older offerings too. DOes CX actually have a plan to upgrade their regional premium products?
I think their regional J product is more better than the Long haul herring bone one :P well i hope they did upgraded it.. but i hope they did not upgraded that seats with he herring bong one.. if they did. i better off with GA / TG or maybe SQ
jchalupsky From United States of America, joined Jun 2011, 12 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (1 year 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 5793 times:
Nice trip report - what do you do for a living that allows you to travel the way you do?? I need to learn from you!
thaia345 From Indonesia, joined Oct 2006, 814 posts, RR: 17 Reply 19, posted (1 year 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 4880 times:
Quoting jchalupsky (Reply 17): what do you do for a living that allows you to travel the way you do??
I actually work for one of the biggest premium automobile groups in SE Asia that has a few major European brand in their portfolio, thus the frequent travels into Europe.
Quoting abrelosojos (Reply 18): Great report as always. Thanks again for the amenity kit - mind sending me your mailing address via PM ...
Hi A !!....again, my pleasure for the amenity kit. Please check you PM.
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.....for the private jet its actually cheaper as I shared the cost between 4 friends and we had to travel a city a day in 4 days..so much cheaper than buying domestic J/C intra europe ticket.
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i thought their J were good.. well i think i just have to travel in Y 
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