Purchased
After further research I bought a flight ticket from Singapore Airlines. While it’s not the ideal ticket, I think it works for most of the important things. Anyway, the cool part is I have a short stopover in Tokyo on the way and one in Seoul on the way back. These are mainly refuelling and cleaning stops and there won’t be time to do anything. Just enough time to say I was there and be off again.
Singapore Airlines has long been highly rated for its economy class service so it was a bit of a no-brainer when I found flights that were reasonably close to those I’d found elsewhere. Plus there is no risk of dodgy travel agents or anything like that. I decided to go for it because the number of seats remaining is pretty small and I feared losing out on any seats if I had waited.
The big negative is I will be going through Los Angeles after all. And the only place with any notable layovers is LAX. That said, they aren’t the worst they could be. Four and a half hours on the way there and six hours or so on the way back. I guess if I have to have one that long, it’s better to be early on in the flight.
I was drawn in by the lure of several flights where I managed to hit about six cities each time but the layovers in total were too much. As it is, I will be unlikely to get much sleep during this time and it’s not like there will be enough time to do anything.
I was already able to choose my seats and it looks like I will have window seats the whole way through. That’s an advantage of flying alone since I don’t have to share the opportunity to see out the window with anyone. I also already chose meal service options too. I found out after I had done this about the standard meals and found out they are pretty neat so I am going to stick with those on the long flights and only choose special meals on the Perth-Singapore leg. My US flights are on Virgin America and I don’t plan to eat anything on those. I can eat at the airport on the way there and I imagine I will eat before I board when I depart.
Anyway, I leave Perth early morning on October 30th and will return on December 1st around midday.
