Singapore Changi International Airport
I left the hotel in the morning as I had a midday flight to Kuala Lumpur. The MRT ride took me to the airport in app. 50 minutes.
I walked over to the Check-In for the Shuttle flights to Kuala Lumpur, where only a few people were queuing. After a few minutes it was my turn and my luggage was checked to KUL and my boarding pass printed.
I pass immigration and headed for the main terminal and made a quick visit at a newspaper and magazine shop and a few duty free shops. I also changed my SGD to MYR and slowly walked to the gate.
21 October 2004
SIN – KUL
[Singapore – Kuala Lumpur]
SQ 110
(Singapore Airlines); Boeing 777 – 200
12:35 – 13:30
Economy
Class
Seat 47 G
Boarding for this flight began at 12:10, as usual first with First Class and
Star Gold and followed by the hoi polloi on the cheap seats. The flight was not full, I doubt, that the load was more than 50%, so I had a whole row to stretch.
We were airborne at 12:55 and the flying time to KUL was announced with 30 minutes. Just after the seat belt signs were switched off, the crew began the beverage service on this short flight.
The flight itself was uneventful – I read the Straits Times – and we landed at 13:30. I left the plane through First Class – a new Raffles Class.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
As I reached the terminal the shuttle train to the main building just left the terminal and the second shuttle was out of service, so I had to wait ten minutes for the next train to arrive.
The queues at immigration were quite long, I had to wait nearly 20 minutes to reach the customs officers desk. After another minutes I was in the belt
area and discovery that my luggage was not yet circling on it, but just arrived on the belt as I arrived. Good timing ...
I purchased a ticket for the KLIA Express to Sentral Station and passed customs. I followed the good visible signs to the KLIA Express train station in a lower level of main building. As I reached it, I just saw the train leaving the station, so another 20 minutes wait.
As the next train arrived I boarded and it took some more minutes time before it finally leaves the
station for Sentral. The travel time took app. 30 minutes and it is a nice ride through fields passing some new town and finally the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur before entering Sentral.
Due to Flyertalk I know where the tickets for the taxi could be bought and decided this time to take a taxi to the Imperial Sheraton (15.60 MYR in deluxe). After 30 minutes in some sort of rush hour traffic and some ways through parking garages my taxi driver dropped me at my hotel, the Imperial Sheraton.