Monthly Archive: February 2025
A few days ago well known YouTuber Sam Chui did a story on thefts on planes alerting his many subscribers (in the millions) to the possibility of their valuables being swiped. Having property stolen while transiting airports or actually on board a plane is not something many give much thought to or are aware of. We think theft while travelling is mostly pickpocketing or scams at tourist sites and while sightseeing. It does happen and stealing on planes is not a recent thing. I remember, about ten years ago or so, reading a blog post on a loyalty website. In that article it mentioned Asia as the prime hotspot, specifically flights in and out of China and Hong Kong (this last destination noted by...
On my last flight SIN-ADL—a flight of about 6 hours and 30 minutes give or take 5-10 minutes—I had to endure an annoying restless person sitting behind me who kept poking, touching and banging into the back of my seat. She did this all the way through the first 3 hours of the flight when the lights were dimmed, the time best suited to rest. The flight left Singapore on time at 23:40. All the backwards and forwards motion of the headrest gave me a headache. I told her to stop moving around and hitting the chair. She seemed to have understood me and shortly afterwards just before the lights came on she was asleep. The nerve and so irritating. Some people have no...
Can the worst seat in Economy Class actually become the best? You may ask, “how can that be so?” Well this happened to a female passenger on my return flight from Rome (FCO) to Singapore (SIN) in late January this year. The exact same seat that I labelled the worst seat ever (see my article “The Worst Seat Imaginable”) about a year ago when I flew in the opposite direction SIN-FCO. On that flight I took a gamble. I moved from the seat I had previously chosen, way back in the middle tail section, to the forward section. At the time when selecting this seat, around 48 hours before flight departure, the row was empty. I chose the aisle seat just in case. As...
