14 hours with Singapore Airlines in Business Class on an A350! Singapore to Seattle | Trip Report

Join me while I spend almost 14 hours with a delightful crew on this flight from Singapore to Seattle in Business Class! Time-stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:16 Welcome 0:30 Business Class Check-in 0:49 Terminal 3 1:09 SilverKris Lounge 2:46 Batik Wall 3:24 Boarding gate 3:45 Boarding 4:10 Welcome Onboard 4:25 Seat tour 5:19 Pushback + Taxi 6:26 Takeoff (Engine noise) 8:44 Business Class Menu 9:47 Lunch Service 11:29 Business Class bed 11:58 Dinner Service 13:25 Final thoughts + Descent 14:35 Landing in Seattle 16:09 Thank YOU FLIGHT INFORMATION ——— Airline: Singapore Airlines Aircraft: Airbus A350-900neo (9V-SJE) Seat: 19A (Business Class) Flight Number: SQ 28 Route: Singapore Changi (SIN) to Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) Flight Time: 13 hour, 43 minutes Date of Travel: 22 November 2022 Follow me on Instagram:   / jett.fueled   Follow me on Twitter:   / jett_fueled   UPCOMING TRIPS ——— NRT-SEA ANA 787 Premium Economy TPE-SIN STARLUX A330neo Business Class TPE-SEA EVA Air 787 Economy ABOUT SINGAPORE AIRLINES (Wikipedia) ——— Singapore Airlines is the flag carrier airline of the Republic of Singapore with its hub located at Singapore Changi Airport. The airline is notable for highlighting the Singapore Girl as its central figure in corporate branding segment. It has been ranked as the world's best airline by Skytrax four times. Singapore Airlines Group has more than 20 subsidiaries, including numerous airline-related subsidiaries. SIA Engineering Company handles maintenance, repair and overall (MRO) business across nine countries with a portfolio of 27 joint ventures including with Boeing and Rolls-Royce. Singapore Airlines Cargo operates SIA's freighter fleet and manages the cargo-hold capacity in SIA's passenger aircraft. Scoot, a wholly owned subsidiary operates as a low-cost carrier. Singapore Airlines was the first to put the Airbus A380 — the world's largest passenger aircraft — as well as the Boeing 787-10 into service and is the only operator of the ultra long-range version of the Airbus A350-900. It ranks amongst the top 15 carriers worldwide in terms of revenue passenger kilometers and is ranked tenth in the world for international passengers carried. Singapore Airlines was voted as the Skytrax World's Best Airline Cabin Crew 2019. The airline has also won the second and fourth positions as the World's Best Airlines and World's Cleanest Airlines respectively in 2019. ABOUT THE A350 (Wikipedia) ——— The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner developed and produced by Airbus. The first A350 design proposed by Airbus in 2004, in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the A330 with composite wings and new engines. As market support was inadequate, in 2006, Airbus switched to a clean-sheet "XWB" (eXtra Wide Body) design, powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent XWB turbofan engines. The prototype first flew on 14 June 2013 from Toulouse in France. Type certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) was obtained in September 2014, followed by certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) two months later. The A350 is the first Airbus aircraft largely made of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymers. It has a new fuselage designed around a nine-abreast economy cross-section, up from the eight-abreast A330/A340. It has a common type rating with the A330. The airliner has two variants: the A350-900 typically carries 300 to 350 passengers over 15,000 kilometers (8,100-nautical-mile), and has a 283-tonne (617,300-pound) maximum takeoff weight (MTOW); the longer A350-1000 accommodates 350 to 410 passengers and has a maximum range of 16,100 km (8,700 nmi) and a 319 t (703,200 lb) MTOW. On 15 January 2015, the initial A350-900 entered service with Qatar Airways, followed by the A350-1000 on 24 February 2018 with the same launch customer. As of December 2022, Singapore Airlines is the largest operator with 61 airplanes in its fleet. A350 orders stood at 919 aircraft, of which 521 had been delivered and all were in service with 40 operators. The global A350 fleet had completed more than 934,000 flights on more than 955 routes without accidents. It succeeds the A340 and competes against Boeing's large long-haul twinjets: the 787, the 777, and its successor, the 777X. #FlightReview #Airbus #A350 #Singapore #Inflight #Changi #Batik #SIN #SEA