Review: Singapore Airlines Business Class A330 Ahmedabad To Singapore

I did SIN-ICN in the A330. It was also a redeye flight. The experience was pretty much like yours.

TAP uses 4 ex-SIA A330 with exactly the same seats on routes from LIS to select destinations in Brazil (mainly SSA, BSB, CNF) and also MIA. Flights are over 8h so the hard product is poor. They will move to AC in June 2019 and get a complete refit by end-2019.

The Bay of Bengal is a nightmare or turbulence.

"Between seats is a privacy partition, which actually extended out quite a ways, and would be useful in the event that you’re seated next to someone.". Shouldn't it be stranger rather someone ?

Maybe they make the glasses smaller to force more interaction with the flight attendants. SQ likes to put them front and center!

@Lucky, on your comment on the size of the glasses, Singapore has two sets of cutlery depending on the aircraft type - one for the A330, B772, B773 and B787 which fly mainly short-haul and regional routes, and another for the A350, A380 and the Boeing ER fleets that fly mainly long-hauls.

The key differences are in whether glasses have stems, and the extent to which the plates for the main course curve up more. Both of these are present for the short and regional jets. Though why there is the need to differentiate puzzles me.

I flew their red-eye A330 and slept really well. Despite being a bit cramped, the seat was perfectly fitting and it almost felt like full-flat (and I'm 167cm or 5'6"). The comfort level may depend on the person's height.

The meal part, Indians have really late night dinner usually after 9pm. It's not unusual that sometimes you get invited for a home-dinner gathering and the meal served at 11pm. Not only SQ, but other carriers like MH, TG out of India leaving after 12am also serve full supper service.

@Hiro, that’s the real difference between Asian and American carriers. They take an attempt to study culture and implement it on flights and then think of cost cutting elsewhere. American carriers in such situations would just generalize and tell you no meals after 8.

Yes those seats are an absolute disaster. The guy who decided on those seats should be stripped in for 2 weeks of regional redeyes.
What a failure.

Their 787s are terrible in terms of sleeping comfort. Seatbelts that go over your shoulder, plus seats are narrow, have a hard base and are too short, similar to their new 380s but then even smaller. Only difference is that they offer more privacy and have touchscreens.

Lucky, do you ever have Indian NON-vegetarian food on planes? Just asking.

I don't think ordering a plate of food just for the purpose of a picture is something I'd congrat you for. Please, be a more food responsible consumer.

Some rough translations since you said "whatever the heck that is" 😉
Hindi to English:
Saunf - fennel
Mirch - chilli or pepper
Paneer - cottage cheese
Makai - corn
Kaju - cashewnut
Hara pyaaz - green onion
Dal - lentil
Urdu to English:
Zaffran - saffron
Mewa - fruit/dry fruit
Pulao - pilaf

I did this NRT-SIN once, hard product is straight out of the 90's

Same on SQ

I did the AMD to SIN flight and would hugest avoiding due to the hard product

@Carlos, I've been told airlines throw out prepared food such as the cheese plates after the flights. It is a sanitary thing. so regardless of how much of it he ate it would have gone to waste.

I guess if it wasn't an overnight flight the angled flat seat wouldn't be that big a deal for a relatively short flight (I'd note that most US carriers use regular first class seats for trips even to Hawaii at 5-7 hours, not even angled flat!). I have never been a huge fan of the Singapore business class seats, while wide they are awkward to lay flat in and I find it annoying to have to flip the whole thing down to sleep instead of gradually lowering myself as I get tired. The service and food are what make them stand out though!!

Have not flown Singapore, but to me that seat recline looks good.

It’s a shame SQ is not in oneworld...