Beth's posts with tag: flight
 Finally I’m back fresh again after got jet lag. Yesterday arrived at Jakarta at 2pm and after ate a huge portion of nasi padang (damn yum yum!) I fall asleep at 8pm at my beloved bed. But at 11pm I awoke and couldn’t sleep again till 04.30 after had eat for sahur. From Muscat to Jakarta, its only passenger in the plane; me, Gwen (a French girl who will get married with Indonesian badminton player this December), 4 foreigners guy and the rest are TKW. The good thing was that each person can have two or three seats for themselves but the bad things were; it was turbulence the whole way from Muscat to Jakarta, so we really 8 hours had to keep the seat belt. It almost made all people got airsick Another the bad thing, and this is the worst thing, I guess…are the group of TKW. They are nice, always smile and looked so happy to back home again. But well…I noticed, every times TKW on the plane, the toilet always bloody dirty and the floor under their seats always full of garbage. I think before they went to abroad for work, they would get a kind of education how to live and work abroad as maid. What for do and for don’t. But maybe the organization that sent them to abroad forgot to teach them how’s the manners on the plane. When the plane took off and landing, it’s always difficult (very difficult!) for air attendant to make them fold the table, used the seat belt, close the window, etc. Even one of the stewardesses spoke bahasa, it wasn’t really help. Most of the TKW were stubborn. They opened again the seat belt when the air attendance away. Opened the table, close the window…euh! Only watched them make me stress already. No wonder if the air attendance face suddenly turned to ugly when they saw the group came the plain hehe…
In Germany again and get confused by German keyboard again :pThe trip was ok but the airline was crap.From the beginning Gulf Air already delayed for 25 mins from Jakarta to Muscat and the seat for around 9 hours trip was crap! Small seat with no footstep, no private TV...but I was safe by the boy who sat next to me and by the cool flight attendant. The boy who sat next to me had a cough so he always asked more food and more wine to make his throat feel warm, so there he goes...he became drunk and talk so funny. He was on the way back to France from his first visit to Bali and he had so many drunk questions and so many drunk statements regarding his what he saw and what he felt in Bali and Jakarta (hi was more confused in Jakarta, I know :p)In Muscat we had to separate. He continued to Bahrain with hard try cos he was barely sober enough to see what his flight gate hehe...And as the schedule, I had to wait for 5 hours in Seeb Muscat Airport. And bloody hell....nuthing to see in Muscat Airport and no comfy place to sleep like in Dubai :(Boarding right on time and yippie! This time I had larger seat, private TV and footstep. But...err...lala...la...hm....yawz...the plane didn't move at all for 1 hour! Bloody hell...I started to feel very irritated!From Muscat we supposed to fly to Frankfurt via Bahrain and we didn't need to go off in Bahrain. But another surprise from Gulf, we had to went off from the plane in Bahrain and had to wait 2 hours!!!! Maybe even more  When finally we can fly to Frankfurt, the plane changed into ugly plane again. Oh come ooon...its a longer trip than Muscat-Bahrain! We supposed to have that large seat and private tv! No one can safe me now even that cool flight attendant cos they change the crew as well. Blah!Arrived in Frankfurt at 10.20 am. Late 4 hours from the schedule. Euh Gulf....bad seat, bad schedule, bad food. Believe or not we only got one muffin and juice for lunch. No wonder I quite surprised when I read in their in-flight magazine, they said that they got an award for the best business and economy catering and best flight in middle east. Blah, this must be a joke!At least when I already in Kerpen, my boyfriend welcome me with a lots of surprises  And even lil bit jet lag still, we have to go to Madonna concert tonight. Yippie! all my anger to Gulf was gone! 
 In Jakarta again. As I read in the news while I was in Europe, the weather here in Jakarta quite jump around from bloody hot to heavy raining.
My flight back to Jakarta was quite ok even had some argue with Emirate people. When checked in in Frankfurt they told me that my next flight to Jakarta to Dubai was Monday morning at 2am. Its impossible cos I booked, I paid for flight from Dubai at Sunday 2am direct 3 hours after my arrival from Frankfurt. In my ticket its written exactly that I would arrived in Dubai at Saturday 11pm and will continue to fly to Jakarta at Sunday 2am, so when Emirate guys told me that my name is not register for Sunday flight I was really shock. They said I had changed my flight (or my travel agent change my flight?) I didn’t change my flight and I didn’t want to stay a day in Dubai cos at Tuesday I have to work in this new company.
Emirate guys in Germany was quite strict and didn’t help at all. They had no other choice for me except I have to apply visa for a day to enter Dubai. Suck.
So I flew to Dubai with heartbeats. Thinking how to fly to Jakarta right away. I really don’t want to stay a day more anywhere! I was tired,. Exhausting and have to work at Tuesday morning. So when I arrived in Dubai, I quickly went to Emirate counter and gave the guy my ticket and asked him to check it. Same saying, my flight had changed into 2 am the next day without any notification to me at all.
I said nicely to the guy (but without smilling) that I bought ticket for this flight written in ticket, if there was some changing then it’s not my responsibility cos I didn’t do any changin. I just wanna fly now, I don’t want to fly tomorrow cos I didn’t pay ticket for tomorrow.
The guy was calm and did some check in computer…and voila! “Yes miss, you can fly now, just go to the next counter to get your boarding pass, your luggage will be automatically transferred”
Waaa!! Emirate people in Dubai is much much nicer than in Frankfurt! But still I need to make call to my travel agent. I want to know who did this to me! If they did then no more fly with Vayatour grrr!!!
 Flight from Jakarta to Denpasar last Friday was a disaster. Eventhough our departure right on time, 20.15, but when first time I stepped my feet on the plane I already feel uncomfy. Well yeah, all of flight attendants were male (quite rare for my eyes though hehe…) but can see clearly how old this plane. The color of seats n carpet is faded and dirty. Sitting area was too small, some people got pain on their knees cos of that. Some functions not working..bla..bla…and beside all of that…this flight was a scary hell! It was raining hard outside n the flight bumpy every second times and suddenly yeah…it happened, the first time in my life, oxygen mask popped up to us n ppl started crying n screaming. I didn’t take that mask right away…cos at that time I feel like amazed by the situation and also because the oxygen mask was soooo dirty! But I have to wear it anyway… Maybe some people thought its funny…A couple who sit in front of me took picture of us with oxygen mask and I did it too! Hehe…
We remove the mask after 15 mins and guess what happened? I feel so dizzy had hard coughing and some ppl got vomit. Hmm…I think oxygen mask will makes ppl feel better? No? Hmm…. Batavia Air decided to back to Jakarta again after 45 mins fly. The reason was bad weather.
We wait in Cengkareng airport around 30 mins when Batavia announced that we will fly again with different plane. Hm? What was that?? Bad weather or ugly plane??? This Batavia Air is hilarious! If it really a bad weather, its unbelievable we can fly again after 30 mins!
Some people decide to cancel their trip cos of fear, but me moved on with yeah a much better condition of Batavia plane and got Denpasar safely at early in the morning. So I think its all about the plane...bad weather maybe...but not that bad :)
| | Well...i love d risk when have to steal this thing into my bag hehe...And thanks for Neil for stole some for me hehe...how did u feel? :p
Anyone, if you want to steal it for me when you going somewhere...you are veryyyy welcome :)
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