Routing

Finally all travel plans are fixed and confirmed, and besides the trip on the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 there is a lot of criss-cross flying in the region.

So this is how my travel map looks like this time:

I'll be starting on Saturday, October 20th with Vienna - Frankfurt - Singapore, arriving on 21st in the early morning and immediatly connecting to Bangkok. There I'll meet my dear friend Sindre (some of you might remember him from last year's Korea and Malaysia trip).

After a mere three relaxing days I'll head back to S'pore and after a short brake of about five hours I'll continue my trip on to Sydney, enjoying still the old flagship of the skies, the 747-400. That will be on 23rd. Arriving early morning on 24th I'll do some intense sightseeing in Sydney - have you ever met someone that crazy that flies all the way from Vienna to down under just to stay there only for 2 1/2 days?? - and then the big day comes.

Singapore Airlines inaugural (return)flight from Sydney to Singapore on the new A380. Okay, i've to confess, it's not the first-first flight, but only the second-first flight. Still I am excited like a little kid, that I have this great chance to be part of this whole event. Funny enough, I paid for this "one in a lifetime experience" as Singapore Airlines is calling it less then a regular oneway ticket would have cost. I told you before, I'm a cheapskate, and a lucky one after all. And yes, it was a lot of luck.

Anyway, after returning to Singapore, I'll stay there overnight and in the early morning I'll fly again to Bangkok, this time via Kuala Lumpur. Why again back to BKK? Well, I mad it my homebase for this trip, so I don't need to carry all the stuff you usually have on a two week trip with you all the way to Australia. This makes life a lot easier.

After another four days in BKK I'll visit some old friends in Kuala Lumpur, and then finally I'll head back via Singapore and Frankfurt to Vienna.

Yep, it's a lot of flying in the upcomming weeks. But I love it.