Pretty normal first day. Picked up in the wet by the Conn-X-ion shuttle bus, and taken down to Brisbane airport. Arrived around 11, and waited patiently in the queue for check-in to open. They couldn’t print the boarding passes for our last leg to Almaty, but the baggage got checked all the way through, which was a relief otherwise we’d have to get PCR tests to enter India to retrieve them.
Only three flights this afternoon from Brisbane international, so the terminal was pretty empty and quiet. Not as quiet as a few months ago, but still half the shops haven’t reopened.
A Singapore Airline Airbus A350, which was full. Seems like they still are streaming all flights with Asian destinations through Singapore, as there are three flights a day, although there are now also Emirates and Qatar flights on the board if you are heading to Europe.
What are the chances in a flight of 300 passengers where you randomly choose your own seats, to find that you are sitting next to somebody on your tour? Pretty small, but that’s what happened.
Arrived in Singapore on time for our six hour layover. Quite different to the Changi airport of six months ago when most shops were still closed, chairs were wrapped and there was one noodle vendor feeding the whole terminal. Now its buzzing. I’ve seen it busier, but it looks like the Changi of old.
