In an attempt to catch you all up on our trip back to the States, I have written a series of blog entries that will give you the highlights from our adventure back home.
Our flight from Shanghai to Seoul was slightly delayed, which typically is not a problem, but with only a 1 ½ hour layover in Seoul before catching our connecting flight to San Francisco, any delay does not bode well for us. We were flying on Korean Air, our first time, so we were looking forward to the experience. After a half an hour delay, we got onto the plane, which, to my surprise, was completely filled. I was surprised because we were on a 747-400 (for those of you not familiar, this is a really big plane) and the trip is less then 2 hours on a random Wednesday during the week. The plane was a new plane that had the seat back entertainment that would have been awesome for the kids except for the fact that they slept through the whole ride, but I definitely won't complain about that. The best part of the trip was during lift off when we were about 7,000feet in the air, Maddie's juice cup (which contained grapefruit juice) started to make noises and then all of the sudden started spraying juice all over Renee's leg, it was pretty cool and something I have never seen (not too cool for Renee). Overall the rating for Korean Air is a solid 8.5 out 10, great service, nice clean plane, but the delay didn't help.
We arrived at Inchon Airport and I ran from the transfer area (the story of my life as you will see later) to the Singapore Airlines desk to make sure we were all set for our flight. After some negotiations on making sure we all were sitting together, we were able to sit down for 5 minutes before having to load onto the Singapore Airline flight to San Francisco. Can I say that Singapore Airlines is the best airline in the world absolutely 10 out of 10, I don't know how I can put myself through the suffering of being on a US domestic carrier, they are about 10 notches below Singapore Airlines (so basically a 0), the service was great, the plane was nice, the food was…a good 2 steps up from typical airline food, oh yeah and the kids slept almost 8 hours out of the 11 hours on this flight, so again no complaints in this arena, actually this was by far the easiest 14 hours of flying with kids I have ever experienced, they just slept the whole way, which makes for a nice smooth trip.
Our flight from Shanghai to Seoul was slightly delayed, which typically is not a problem, but with only a 1 ½ hour layover in Seoul before catching our connecting flight to San Francisco, any delay does not bode well for us. We were flying on Korean Air, our first time, so we were looking forward to the experience. After a half an hour delay, we got onto the plane, which, to my surprise, was completely filled. I was surprised because we were on a 747-400 (for those of you not familiar, this is a really big plane) and the trip is less then 2 hours on a random Wednesday during the week. The plane was a new plane that had the seat back entertainment that would have been awesome for the kids except for the fact that they slept through the whole ride, but I definitely won't complain about that. The best part of the trip was during lift off when we were about 7,000feet in the air, Maddie's juice cup (which contained grapefruit juice) started to make noises and then all of the sudden started spraying juice all over Renee's leg, it was pretty cool and something I have never seen (not too cool for Renee). Overall the rating for Korean Air is a solid 8.5 out 10, great service, nice clean plane, but the delay didn't help.
We arrived at Inchon Airport and I ran from the transfer area (the story of my life as you will see later) to the Singapore Airlines desk to make sure we were all set for our flight. After some negotiations on making sure we all were sitting together, we were able to sit down for 5 minutes before having to load onto the Singapore Airline flight to San Francisco. Can I say that Singapore Airlines is the best airline in the world absolutely 10 out of 10, I don't know how I can put myself through the suffering of being on a US domestic carrier, they are about 10 notches below Singapore Airlines (so basically a 0), the service was great, the plane was nice, the food was…a good 2 steps up from typical airline food, oh yeah and the kids slept almost 8 hours out of the 11 hours on this flight, so again no complaints in this arena, actually this was by far the easiest 14 hours of flying with kids I have ever experienced, they just slept the whole way, which makes for a nice smooth trip.
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