The journey

The journey began on Friday,the 25th date of the July month of the year 2008 at 2330 hours IST from Chennai airport by Singapore airlines. We were supposed to reach San Fransisco, our ultimate destination by Saturday the 26th of July by 1230 local time. This being my first trip on an international airlines I was apprehensive. Apprehensive about the luggages and the stuff I am carrying, apprehensive about the documents I need to show if asked in the immigration ,apprehensive about the duration of I94 I will get. But destiny had a smooth plan and I has a smooth sailing all through. Getting back to the journey, the Singapore airlines flight SQ529 was good. But definitely not the best. But I am not a person who can judge the standards of airlines as I haven't travelled on many. But when you hear Singapore airlines is the best in the world, obviously the expectations are sky high and I must say I was disappointed. The seat for the economy class was not very comfortable considering the length of the journey. Nevertheless, I had no choice. And as luck would have it , I was given the aisle seat and not the window seat but a nice gentleman from China/Japan/Korea, God only knows was kind enough to exchange his window seat with me. And hence, began my journey to Singapore first. A journey of 3 hours and 40 minutes . I took the window seat in vain as it was night all through, and my expectation of seeing the Kaula Lampur twin tower on the way went in vain. Finally we landed in Singapore at 0600 AM local time. But sun won't come out of Singapore till 7 am. And our next flight was SQ16 scheduled to depart at 0915 local hours. This piece of journey I had the worst seat possible a middle seat and the person at the window was not kind enough(read rude) to exchange the seat and as luck would have it, the majority of the journey was during day hours except for few hours. Anyways I was trapped in a middle seat for all those enduring hours spending my time seeing movies,sleeping and eating. Finally we reached SFO airport at around 1230 hours local time and I was physically drained but definitely not mentally as this was just the begining.

Now to some comments on the Singapore airlines which covered my entire trip

• The flight was shaky and turbulent at times. Truly not the internationally best standard according to me.
• Air hostesses were all Chinese/Japanese/Korean.
  
• The collection available in the TV was pretty limited.
  
• Service was pretty bad according to me. According to me ear plugs must be offered to everyone before they take off to prevent ears from blocking. They give ear plugs only when asked for.
• A little more leg space should help.Agreed we are on economy class but still a little better service and facilities can help.

Overall Singapore airlines was good but if this is internationally the best then I wonder how the others would be.