MY: A Trip Home...

Left apartment for the airport around 6:15pm.Originally, plan to leave around 6pm, however, have to wait for AI/MR to send some stuff for their parents and Zal went to pick AZ from his apartment. AZ is going back for good after a year in DOH. I promised him that I will check in arnd 20kg of his luggage.

Checked in was abreeze. A definite positive point when you are traveling with Premium Class on Qatar Airways. A special terminal for you to check in where you will be treated like a real person and wonderful QR ground staff. I wonder why QR can’t station the same trained people at the main terminal.

I was assigned to seat 1E, a typical seat if I travel with QR. I prefer not to take window seat or aisle next to window to avoid disturbance to the next person. No one queuing at the immigration and there were two immigration officers. One was busy playing with her phone and another served me. Asked about my visa expiration date and was told it will expire on the July 8th., the same day I am due to fly into Qatar. The officer advised me to apply for a new one to avoid complication. Oh well.. let see whether it can be done on time!











Make a short round at the duty free – couple of things attract me, but I avoid buying them… BOSE noise canceling headphone, dress watch.. and few Arabic CDs… I will have one more trip via this Premium Terminal, I told myself that I will buy it next time.. :-)

Went straight to the lounge for Maghreb prayer and some dinner. The lounge was deserted. Less than 20 pax over there. After prayer, I looked for a remote table with a plug for my laptop. Since there were a few passengers, I guess I will connect to internet at the dining area. Chat with Zal and read few blogs.

The flight was a bit delayed, from 2030 to 2055. So, more time for me to surf the net.

Overall, the food was terrible. No taste at all. They served steam rice, grilled veggie, dry pasta and baked fish. Very plain taste.. in fact when I asked for chili sauce, they don’t have it.. tu nasib baik tak mintak kicap… definitely I will complaint.

Boarding started at 8:30pm and it was a full house for Business Class. One thing I can never understand QR is how they always successfully split family members traveling together. The same case I experienced during the flight. I was caught in the middle of family of five (parents and three small kids). I have no choice so I volunteer to take the window seat. Arrghh.. how I hate window seat when there’s somebody sitting next to me!











QR didn’t impress me at all this time. In fact, I sensed the service level has gone down.. This aircraft, A7-AFC still have old seat.. smaller than old seat that MH has in their Airbus fleet. Small and limited reclining. Food, don’t mention about it. No improvement.. still same menu and the omelet for breakfast was awful.

Landed in KUL 15 minutes late. No other international arrival at that time, so the terminal and immigration were not crowded. My luggage came in quite fast and be a responsible traveling partner, I waited for AZ to join me at the luggage carousel and waited for him while he went shopping for chocolates :-)

Took ERL to KL Sentral and my brother came to pick me up from there. Reached home around half past noon, just nice to unpack before Friday prayer…

Home Sweet Home… at last… is it really sweet? Errrrr……

~ MT @ Malaysia
~~ Ampang, Selangor

~ To Travel Is To Discover Oneself ~