Sunday, November 17, 2013

Business class, upper deck, A380-800, Malaysia Airlines

When MH and BA had their first A380-800 be delivered a few months ago, I told my friends "ok it's time to go try A380" as SQ has taken the first few logs of problematic A380 (with wing problems).  Over the past several years, Airbus fixed the wing problems for their newer versions of A380 to this 800 version.  Just like the new hotels, airlines often had some introductory prices.  So be a discerning traveller - take the bargain deal to save your hard-earned money.  I stocked 2 roundtrip business class tickets with MH (like stock market) and one premium economy class on BA for the next few months.  These 3 tickets have saved me over HK$80k (good for going to Maldives 3-4 times).
MH has made their c class so spacious (with 76 inch seat pitch).  I actually like this kind of seat design with more open space, instead of those jig-saw adjacent seats from left to right.  The plane is 30% less noisy than other aircrafts and also 30% more stable during air travel.  The lavatory is amazingly big (at least 3-4 times bigger than those traditional ones, but kind of a waste.  Why not pushing all the seats forward and let the economy seats bigger at the rear section).  MH service is very nice and the meal is so big that I couldn't finish it all.  Their inflight entertainment is so nice with a nice de-noise head phone.  Finally watched my long-awaited movie "Prometheus". 

3 comments:

Stella said...

Nice plane, nice meal, nice ice cream.
Also 2 nice pairs of sneakers.
Saving of $10,000 US is a lot.
You are really a smart consumer.
The way you stocked the air tickets is better than stocking stocks as stocks are speculative but not air tickets.
Worse comes to worst you just do not "earn" more but you will never lose value on air ticket.
OK, be the #1 air ticket and resort hotel investor from now on.

in the sea said...

This is a way of how people spend their money. Someone may spend their time on the stock market for money but no time to check on how to save their air ticket/hotel costs…etc. So I'm just on the reverse. :)

Stella said...

You are the smarter one since you can lose a lot on stock investment while on air ticket/hotel investment only gain no loss.