Nonrev Correspondent- Singapore

Hi all, apologies for the late introduction - I just moved from my hometown of Melbourne, Australia to Singapore so have been quite busy settling in at home and work!

A little about me:

• I've had a passion for the aviation industry since a child, and have been involved in it for the last 7 years.
• I studied Aviation Management at University in Melbourne, and had the time of my life as a Dispatch Intern at Southwest. I try to get back to visit at least once a year
• After returning from Dallas to complete my studies I went back to working in an airline lounge (don't ever do this... it's depressing) before I found a job as a cargo officer at CX.
• 2.5 years later and i've been promoted and am now stationed in SIN

I love to travel, and probably used my benefits more than anyone I knew in MEL. During my 2 years I made the most of my 5 weeks/yr vacation (do I hear jealousy from my US counterparts??) visited Hong Kong countless times, as well as Egypt, UK (multiple), USA (multiple), Bahrain, Netherlands, Finland, Taiwan, Singapore.

Now my vacation plans can't be as flexible as they were in the past, so I have to plan weekend trips and 1 or 2 longer trips a year. I'm hoping to go to PVG, KUL, TPE, PEN, HKG, CMB and HAN over various weekends before the end of the year, and maybe a trip to DAL and LAS via the UK later this year! Probably won't hit that target, but will see how we go.

I look forward to sharing my interest in travel and aviation with everyone on the boards... any qns about SIN, CX or the region let me know!

Did I read that right? 5 weeks/yr vacation? I'm SOOOO jealous! How much vacation time do you have now? Your travels sound wonderful. I'll be looking forward to hearing about your trips!

Haha 4 weeks is the law in Australia, then we got an extra week as we worked shift work.

Now I have 21 days plus public holidays... so so.

Thanks, look fwd to sharing some more soon!

Hi Nick,
Does CX has embargoed for non rev during july? If it doesn't , how much chance of flying from SFO or LAX to BKk ?
Thank you.

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Originally Posted by maltese

Hi Nick,
Does CX has embargoed for non rev during july? If it doesn't , how much chance of flying from SFO or LAX to BKk ?
Thank you.

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Hi there, our only embargoes apply to positive space ("nosub") tickets, so you will be fine with a ZED. As for July what date were you thinking... I can check but obviously the plane will fill up. From what I have seen lately YVR seems to be the most open port as opposed to SFO/LAX/JFK. Where are you based?

Hi Nick,
I am based in SFO and looking at the second week of July - first week of August.
Thank you for your reply and anytime you want to fly AA, I can help you check the load.

Careful, he'll probably take you up on that offer a lot more than you'd expect :P

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Originally Posted by maltese

Hi Nick,
I am based in SFO and looking at the second week of July - first week of August.

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So you are leaving second week of July, coming back in August? Or you can leave anytime? That's a big range of dates is all...

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Originally Posted by spongebue

Careful, he'll probably take you up on that offer a lot more than you'd expect :P

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Haha potentially... looking at a US trip in Nov :cool:

Hi Nick...I'm hoping to do a qui trip to Malaysia in a few weeks, and wanted some advice. Right now, the plan is to do SFO-HKG-KUL on 6/22ish, and KUL-HKG on 29th, and HKG-SFO on the 30th or the 1st. Are the flights better out of SF, or Vancouver, and how are the loads tentatively right now?
And anytime you're on the West Coast, I'm your girl!

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Originally Posted by seattlegirl1

Hi Nick...I'm hoping to do a qui trip to Malaysia in a few weeks, and wanted some advice. Right now, the plan is to do SFO-HKG-KUL on 6/22ish, and KUL-HKG on 29th, and HKG-SFO on the 30th or the 1st. Are the flights better out of SF, or Vancouver, and how are the loads tentatively right now?
And anytime you're on the West Coast, I'm your girl!

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Horizon SEA hey... i've flown on y'all once, SEA-YVR was quite enjoyable. Crew were young and friendly, agent on phone and at apt were quite nice.

Can you postpone to depart around 25th/26th? Loads are bad before then but improve out of YVR around this time.
SFO-HKG = bad (20-25th)
LAX-HKG = bad (20-25th)
Basically economy is oversold, biz and first look good on face value but all the oversells will slot in there somewhere. I can check closer to time for a better picture if you'd like.
YVR-HKG = OK on 22nd, Bad on 23rd, CX839/24Jun is excellent, 25th both flights look excellent

HKG-KUL = CX721/22Jun, CX623/23Jun, CX721/24Jun, CX725/25th Jun, CX721/26Jun all look good.

Do you have an agreement with Malaysian (MH) or Sri Lankan (UL)? OAG shows they both fly direct LAXKUL!!!

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Originally Posted by Nick

So you are leaving second week of July, coming back in August? Or you can leave anytime? That's a big range of dates is all...


Haha potentially... looking at a US trip in Nov :cool:

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Nick,
I can leave at anytime starting from July 5th. What is your suggestion. Do you think it's better to nonrev in july or august?
Thanks.

Nick,
My prior message asking about Non rev during July or August. I mean the first week of August.
Thanks again.

Hi Maltese, sorry for the delay... are you Maltese? I dated a half British half Maltese girl once, wow that was a while ago.

As for the loads:

LAXHKG ~ 5th July
5/6/7/8 look full down back already
9th - CX883 looks good
10th - all three flts (CX881/CX885/CX883) look good with >50 seats
11th - both flights look good

SFO-HKG ~5th July
5/6/7/8/9 -quite full aready
10/11/12th - looking better, but not as good as LAX

HKG-BKK - fine all those days

August looks good, but results skewed as it is so far away!

Hi Nick, thanks for the reply. I think we are going to try the YVR-HKF-KUL route on the 22nd....We have an agreement on MH, but their flt goes througth Japan, and I'd rather avoid that!
Our back up plan would be to fly on BR, and our only concern now is getting back from HKG. I hear it can be difficult, esp. in the summer time. I'm planning on flying out on the 28/29/30 and can do SFO/YVR/LAX. Any tips on the best dates/routes??
Thanks a million!

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Originally Posted by Nick

Horizon SEA hey... i've flown on y'all once, SEA-YVR was quite enjoyable. Crew were young and friendly, agent on phone and at apt were quite nice.

Can you postpone to depart around 25th/26th? Loads are bad before then but improve out of YVR around this time.
SFO-HKG = bad (20-25th)
LAX-HKG = bad (20-25th)
Basically economy is oversold, biz and first look good on face value but all the oversells will slot in there somewhere. I can check closer to time for a better picture if you'd like.
YVR-HKG = OK on 22nd, Bad on 23rd, CX839/24Jun is excellent, 25th both flights look excellent

HKG-KUL = CX721/22Jun, CX623/23Jun, CX721/24Jun, CX725/25th Jun, CX721/26Jun all look good.

Do you have an agreement with Malaysian (MH) or Sri Lankan (UL)? OAG shows they both fly direct LAXKUL!!!

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Originally Posted by seattlegirl1

Hi Nick, thanks for the reply. I think we are going to try the YVR-HKF-KUL route on the 22nd....We have an agreement on MH, but their flt goes througth Japan, and I'd rather avoid that!
Our back up plan would be to fly on BR, and our only concern now is getting back from HKG. I hear it can be difficult, esp. in the summer time. I'm planning on flying out on the 28/29/30 and can do SFO/YVR/LAX. Any tips on the best dates/routes??
Thanks a million!

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Hi, sorry for late reply
HKGSFO
No good on all days mentioned
HKGLAX
28th = no good, 29th = very average, but possibility, 30th = no good
HKGYVR
28th = not a chance, 29th = no good, 30th = not a chance

Might want to start looking at other options...

What happened to the airasia x service from oakland - kuala lumpur? It started last year and when I google I see no info about it stopping, but the air asia site doens't display it as a destination. :/

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Looks like service never actually started on that one: Oakland International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oh what a fool I am... I take Friday off to go home for a long weekend, and forget it's end of school hols. QF/BA to SYD are oversold (and around 15 nonrevs listed ahead of me), MEL is oversold, BNE is oversold, EK to MEL is oversold also. PER is open but silly me forgot to buy a PERMEL zed didn't he?

Sigh.... and the last flight outa SIN on CX is 25mins after i finish work, too close to make.

Well I learned a lesson last week - never forget to check if it's school holidays somewhere on your travel route. It was end of Australian school hols, so the flights were packed!

I took the Friday off so i could leave here thurs night, I stood by for QF to MEL&SYD, BA to SYD and EK to MEL and didn't get on any.

Luckily a SYD flight was delayed until 7am the next morn, so I made that. Then I got to SYD at 4pm on Fri (worst day for nonrev), and they decided my bag was now 2kg too heavy for carryon. So I checked it and went to gate 13 to recheck. Overheard QF staff had been there since 11am, so how would I have a chance. Eventually we all clear on to a flight and I get to MEL but sure enough, no bag.

They then tell me "oh it's common on a fri night, they'll send it on the last flt" . So regardless it took until 5pm the next night to courier it to me.

Then I went to go back on Sunday and our flight went tech, so we were delayed 5hrs or so. They handed out meal vouchers so I went and got one and had some wine - met a venture capitalist, model and writer - was interesting mix. Got home at 3am iso 10pm had a few hrs sleep then work! What a weekend!!

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