The Long Flight
Trip Start
Nov 02, 2009
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Trip End
Nov 23, 2009
Kwo Lo Wan, Hong Kong
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
We had a great supper (at 6 a.m. Wpg time). We had a choice of Salmon, Beef Stir Fry or Pasta, with a prawn salad, dinner roll & chocolate cake for dessert. Half way through the flight, they came around with chicken noodle soup. It was great, but they only gave us a pair of chop sticks to eat the soup with! Now that was a challenge. Bernie, the gentleman that was sitting beside me, had a heck of a time, but he & the rest of us got through it. Jack noticed that the dairy products on the flight were quite international. We had coffee creamers from New York, Hong Kong & from Island Farms Dairy (B.C.) & the butter was from Denmark. The entertainment system was great. There were several movies, TV shows, Games, etc. Also, a map of our route & an outside, on the underside, camera. Our route was very interesting. We went all the way up the Alaska coast, over to Russia, down between Japan & China, straight to Taipei, made a hard right & then into Hong Kong. It really seemed to be the long way around. The camera was fascinating when we were landing. We saw a lot of freighters in the harbour & watched as the wheels came down and the approach to the runway, then the smoke of the tires hitting the runway as we landed.
Once we got to Hong Kong we had to go through a check point on our way to Beijing. At the check point the guy checking our boarding passes had never seen a boarding pass that was printed on a private computer printer before, so he sent us back to the Dragonair counter for one of their printed boarding passes. Oh well, no big deal, but come to find out he did not realize that our boarding pass had a scanable bar code on it and he could have accepted it in the first place. After that episode, we had to go back through security & then on to our flight to Beijing.
Dragonair (Airbus 330) is not quite as cramped as Cathay Pacific (Boeing 777), & their seats do recline..who hooo!!! They fed us breakfast and gave us the choice of Dim Sum or an omelet. We both chose the omelet and were happy with our choice. We talked to a couple of ladies that had the Dim Sum & one really liked it & the other said it was too fishy. Once we landed in Beijing, we had to go through a couple of check points, one of which was temperature control. Both Jack & I took a couple of Advil’s about an hour before we landed so we were not worried. Nobody got pulled over, so we really didn’t have anything to worry about.
