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Travel: Will there be PJs?
The Seat Swap Shuffle
Flight 2406
Tuesday 16 April 2024
AY 132 SIN-HEL
Scheduled: 2150
Boarding: 2115 (Seat 2L/62C)
Pushback: 2203 (Delay while awaiting luggage transfer from another terminal)
Takeoff: 2206
Landing: 0628
Gate: 0631
My plan had been to approach one of the crew in the gate lounge but I see that it is manned entirely by Singapore Airport staff. So scratch that. At least I hustled Megan through the priority lane for security. “She’s with me,” I said to the guy checking BPs, and it worked.
Plan B. We’d do the reverse for boarding. Wait until general boarding was called and then front up at the Business entrance, explain the situation to whoever was manning the door, and see what happened. Megan’s boarding pass had not elicited any sort of cheerful beep at the lounge entrance, so I guessed one of us would be making the walk to the back of the bus.
Right at the back. She was in 62C, a fair hike from my 2L seat, which as far as I’m concerned is the best on the plane. A window seat, so it has a view. A bulkhead seat, so it has a more…
