The trip over the Manchester took 90 minutes or a bit longer – this latter mainly caused by the car park I’d booked a place in not being named as described in their email to me. But I found it, and was going through baggage drop at just about 10:30 for a 13:10 flight, and the usual hanging-about-at-the-airport ensued.
The flight from Manchester to Dubai was with Emirates, in an Airbus A380, and I have to say this was very comfortable. Partly because I had a (pre-payed) good seat, but also because I think those A380 economy seats are comfortable. Anyway, 7 hours later I was landing at Dubai at just after midnight local time to transfer to another Emirates flight and with a changeover time of just over two hours. Dubai International was very busy even at that time, but I gather that because of time differences, departure times from airports all over the world, and flying times, that airport is very busy all hours of the day – indeed, late night may even be the busiest time as that’s when daytime flights from Europe arrive.
No problem making the connection and then I was onto an Emirates Boeing 777 for the flight to Singapore. This too was about 7 hours but nowhere nearly so comfortable. Partly this was because I think the seats in the Boeing were just less comfortable, but also because I ended up with the largest woman in the world sat next to me.
So then I arrived at Singapore at late lunchtime on Tuesday. By the time I got to my hotel I’d been travelling for nearly 24 hours since leaving home.
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