{"id":2316,"date":"2017-01-28T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2017-08-17T10:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:08:03","slug":"20170128mf878","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/28\/20170128mf878\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight Log of Xiamen Air Flight 878 from Kuala Lumpur to Hangzhou (via Fuzhou)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese New Year Day morning.
\nAfter a not-so-merry new year “celebration” under the KLCC Towers, followed by a two-hour nap, I was walking past benches filled by homeless people at Pudu Bus Station, and boarded a early-morning airport bus to Kuala Lumpur Airport.<\/p>\n


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\"Kuala<\/a>

<\/br>Kuala Lumpur Airport Bus Station<\/p><\/div>\n

There was little traffic on the highways surrounding Kuala Lumpur, and in an hour I was at the airport bus station. It was a 50-seat bus and I recalled seeing only five faces.<\/p>\n

\"Escalators<\/a>

<\/br>Escalators in Kuala Lumpur Airport<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Check-in<\/a>

<\/br>Check-in Counters of Kuala Lumpur Airport<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Since it’s still early for check-in (Yes, somehow, check-in counters for Chinese carriers didn’t seem to open as early.), I ate some biscuits bought last night as breakfast, scouted around the airport for currency exchange kiosks, and found there was sort of alliance between them as they offered exactly the same rates.
\nSo I did something I never did in my life and exchanged all my remaining Malaysian Ringgits. Somehow, I didn’t find Malaysia appealing to me, and it had managed to convince myself not to visit it again.<\/p>\n

\"Plane<\/a>

<\/br>Plane Models on Display in Kuala Lumpur Airport<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Shuttle<\/a>

<\/br>Shuttle Train Crossing Each Other in Kuala Lumpur Airport<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Kuala<\/a>

<\/br>Kuala Lumpur Airport Satellite Building Interior<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Boarding<\/a>

<\/br>Boarding Pass<\/br>Simplicity at its extreme.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

At the boarding gate, there was a second round of security. Since I preferred chairs to queues, I was among the last to pass through it. And I cleared it just the moment when the boarding actually began, which made me one of the first to board the plane.<\/p>\n

\"Malaysia<\/a>

<\/br>Malaysia Airlines A380<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Planes<\/a>

<\/br>Planes at Kuala Lumpur Airport Main Building<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Planes<\/a>

<\/br>Planes at Kuala Lumpur Airport Satellite Building<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"KLIA2<\/a>

<\/br>KLIA2 Terminal from Above<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Genting<\/a>

<\/br>Genting Sanyen Power Station among Industrial Land<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Downtown<\/a>

<\/br>Downtown Kuala Lumpur in the Distance<\/br>KLCC Towers barely visible.<\/span><\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Pahang<\/a>

<\/br>Pahang River<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Pahang<\/a>

<\/br>Pahang River into the Sea<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

After an uneventful takeoff, we were told there was no breakfast service, and lunch would be served at 10 which was like halfway into the flight. Thank God, after some nap I found the lunch quite palatable. (Guess won’t be the same if it’s breakfast.)
\nBy the way, since it\u2019s Chinese New Year\u2019s Days, candies were also served onboard.<\/p>\n

\"Meal<\/a>

<\/br>Meal Services<\/br>I picked chicken noodles, which had the same sort of Malaysian curry as flight MH765 a week earlier, and I quite liked it. Also, the meals prepared in Kuala Lumpur were much more a feast than the inbound flight from Fuzhou.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

And an occasional glimpse outside the window revealed the beauty of a nameless island in South China Sea, contrasting the vicious dispute among neighboring countries for its sovereignty.<\/p>\n

\"Island<\/a>

<\/br>Island in South China Sea<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Town<\/a>

<\/br>Town of Honglu (\u5b8f\u8def)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Mountains<\/a>

<\/br>Mountains South of Fuzhou(\u798f\u5dde)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Factories<\/a>

<\/br>Factories South of Fuzhou(\u798f\u5dde)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"High-Rise<\/a>

<\/br>High-Rise Lakes South of Fuzhou(\u798f\u5dde)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Mountain<\/a>

<\/br>Mountain Observatory<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Flying<\/a>

<\/br>Flying above Mountains South of Fuzhou(\u798f\u5dde)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

The layover at Fuzhou(\u798f\u5dde) was relatively short, as most people in the airport seemed to be Chinese holiday makers bound for the island of Hainan(\u6d77\u5357).<\/p>\n

\"Plane<\/a>

<\/br>Plane Maneuvers at Fuzhou(\u798f\u5dde) Airport<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"My<\/a>

<\/br>My Plane (B-5499) to Hangzhou(\u676d\u5dde)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Boarding<\/a>

<\/br>Boarding Flight to Hangzhou(\u676d\u5dde)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Xiamen<\/a>

<\/br>Xiamen Airlines B738 Landing<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Factories<\/a>

<\/br>Factories West of Fuzhou (\u798f\u5dde) Airport<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Shorelines<\/a>

<\/br>Shorelines of Bili(\u78a7\u91cc) County<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Saijiang<\/a>

<\/br>Saijiang River (\u8d5b\u6c5f)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"City<\/a>

<\/br>City of Fuan(\u798f\u5b89)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Xietan<\/a>

<\/br>Xietan (\u659c\u6ee9) Brook<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Town<\/a>

<\/br>Town of Yunhe (\u4e91\u548c)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Meal<\/a>

<\/br>Meal Services<\/br>Better than nothing.<\/span><\/p><\/div>
\nAgain, meal services on a flight barely over an hour.
\n

\"City<\/a>

<\/br>City of Jinhua (\u91d1\u534e)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"River<\/a>

<\/br>River Fuchun passing County Fuchun(\u5bcc\u6625)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"City<\/a>

<\/br>City of Tonglu(\u6850\u5e90)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"South<\/a>

<\/br>South Hangzhou(\u676d\u5dde) Suburb<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Farmlands<\/a>

<\/br>Farmlands and Villages in East Hangzhou(\u676d\u5dde)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Cathay<\/a>

<\/br>Cathay Dragon Air A333 (B-LAB)<\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Long<\/a>

<\/br>Long Air A320 (B-1868)<\/br>Off to Xiangfan(\u8944\u6a0a).<\/span><\/p><\/div>
\n

\"Xiamen<\/a>

<\/br>Xiamen Airlines B738 at Hangzhou Airport<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Finally, given the strange nature of this stop-over flight, we needed to clear customs but not immigration at Hangzhou (\u676d\u5dde), which came with a short but unique tour of the Airport’s international baggage distribution center.<\/p>\n

\"Hangzhou<\/a>

<\/br>Hangzhou Airport International Baggage Distribution Center<\/p><\/div>
\nEND<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese New Year Day morning. After a not-so-merry new year “celebration” under the KLCC Towers, followed by a two-hour nap, I was walking past benches filled by homeless people at Pudu Bus Station, and boarded a early-morning airport… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,201,2],"tags":[180,215,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}