Dineish and I made our first trip on the newest long haul airline, Scoot. We were pleasantly surprised by the standard and hope that this review encourages more people to travel with budget airlines.
Scoot is a Singaporean-based budget airline; a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines. It travels between popular destinations in Asia and Australia using aircrafts (Boeing 777) obtained from its parent company. They offer no-frills, low cost travel options for medium to long-haul routes and claim that the tickets are upto 40% cheaper than regular airlines. They offer 2 types of classes: ScootBiz and Economy.
We were on a trip back to Sydney to see the family for a few days and the flight took a little over 7 ½ hours. Check-in was the standard 2 hours before flight, however for the first time we experienced that 2 hours was not enough, because we almost missed out on getting seats together (on both trips) – the line was very long and surely it was because of the cheap tickets. I would recommend you either: 1) come earlier than 2 hours to checkin or 2): pre-book your seats on the internet for an extra surcharge.
I have travelled with many other airlines to so many countries (let me know if you want a blog post on my travel adventures) and I think that this is the by far the BEST budget airlines I have travelled with! We booked 2 economy seats on the first day the tickets came out for SGP-SYD hauls with 20kg luggage. The tickets together cost us a little under $400SGD!! As with most budget airlines things like food, drinks and blankets are chargeable and on Scoot they rent out iPads for long haul flights for $22SGD (Dineish opted for this on the way back to Singapore because he knew I wouldn't be awake to keep him entertained).
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| 12:50pm flight and we were still in the long as queue boarding 5 mins before take off! |
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The line to board again was packed and very long.
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| The on board staff (air hostess) were very polite and although they themselves had given up on the routine emergency procedures, were still delivering standard airline services. Honestly, no bit of the flight felt like a budget airline! |
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The leg space between the seats is roomy and enough for even Dineish to sit comfortably (he is tall remember).
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The flight to Sydney had us at the very last row and although it was a midnight flight and I fell asleep almost immediately, the noise and turbulence was pretty bad. I think that’s the same with all aircrafts, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. We took it because it was the last seats available together. It's also close to the cabin crew area and because they have to stay awake through the night it gets quite loud (often hear heavy Singaporean accents). There is still space to put the seats back and that was great because you don’t have to sleep upright!
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| Roomy :) |
All in all, I think Scoot is great. Personally, I’m not too fussed about the service I get on board, but considering it being a budget airline I felt like we flew with so much ease, except for some dodgy passengers of course :P
Hay anni
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Hi Arun, thanks for dropping by :) Hope you enjoyed my content, TC!
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