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Five Days in India

Five Days in India
via Etihad and Singapore First Class
February 2016
Tokyo Narita to Los Angeles
Singapore SQ 12
A380-800
6:50p-11:55a
February 24, 2016
Suites 2CD
 

Boarding had already begun by the time we arrived at the gate.

 

Another warm welcome on board by a new crew who escorted us to our same 2CD seats.

The menu for the NRT-LAX leg of the flight.

For starters, another order of the satay.  I now remember to ask for a spoon as toothpicks just don't cut it as a scooper.

Still good, but not as good as Malaysia...

Showtime, part 2.

My real starter was Suzanne Goin's Grilled Scallops with Rosemary on crispy potatoes, chorizo sausage and sherry glaze.   Potatoes were not crispy but scallops were OK although not very warm.

Suzanne's Corn Chowder with Bacon Soup was very good, with poblano peppers, chili flakes and fingerling potatoes.

Salad of mesculin, asparagus, red radish and cherry tomatoes was ok, nothing special.

The mains were really disappointed.  I had BTC'd the Lobster Thermidor.  It looked good but tasted awful.  One bite was all I could eat.  

Our FA offered another main and I went with the Seared Striped Bass "a la Nicoise".  It was better but still a meh.

On the other hand, the Bittersweet Chocolate Tart with pistacchio ice cream was delicious. 

After dinner, we both headed to empty suites were our FA had made our beds.  I slept solidly until about T-60 and passed on breakfast before we touched down at LAX about 15 minutes early.

Another good SQ flight with the usual outstanding service.  But what the heck has happened to SQ catering.  Add in continuing poor premium ground service and SQ has dropped out of my Top 5 First Class products. 

Global Entry kiosks were wide open and we cleared customs and were outside in less than 5 minutes.  With some 3 hours before our connecting flight, we decided to get some exercise and walk from TBIT to United's Terminal 7.    Yeah, AA is closer and I have status, but I've had enough of their annoying bus Gate 44.    

OK, this is a long walk.  And with temps appoaching 80F/26C, starting to get a little warm.  So we headed into the air conditioned baggage claim areas of terminal 5 and 6.

And finally to Terminal 7.

An easy PreCheck entrance to T7 and we headed for the United Club.

Whoa, with ongoing construction this is possibly the worst United Club anywhere. 

 Mrs. SFO said "no way" so we headed out into the terminal toward the other United Club.

But first a stop for coffee.

And then the elevator to the other United Club.   Nice ambiance.  LOL.

 

 

OK, now this is much better.  Apparently, none of the 100s in the other club know about this place.  Let's keep it that way.

Yeah ladies, why don't you move further away from each other and then you can shout even louder.  Oy.

At around T-50, we headed out and back and over the T8 concourse and our gate.

Yikes, talk about gate lice.  Must be United. 

LAX-Denver
United 314
737-800
3:43p-7:00p
February 24, 2016
Seats 2AB

Ah yes, back to the real world.  Domestic "First Class".  LOL.

Yeah, this plane needs a little help.

Once in the air, reasonably good service although Wifi wasn't working and our FA didn't really care to find out why. 

Tonight's dinner (or technically lunch) choices, chicken or chicken... chicken salad to hot chicken sandwich.   I opted for the sandwich, which was actually pretty tasty.

The salad was terrible.

But the baked on board chocolate chip cookies were great as always.

We landed a few minutes early and Mrs. SFO was so happy to be home from her one and only trip to India.   LOL.  Thanks to everyone for following along on our India adventure.