My Vietnam Airways A321-200 flight in financial system class from Ho Chi Minh Metropolis to Singapore was punctual, clear, nonetheless admittedly a bit boring…reminding me in a way of what flying was as soon as like. And I don’t miss it…
Vietnam Airways A321-200 Financial system Class Evaluation
My one-way ticket from Ho Chi Minh Metropolis to Singapore was $212, which was excess of the $129 helpful afternoon flight that can have allowed me to sleep in and profit from the morning…nonetheless I wanted to fly to Jakarta, Shanghai, and Seoul…
We arrived at Tan Son Nhat Worldwide Airport about two hours earlier to departure.
Take a look at-in was pretty easy, with solely a short wait.
Immigration, nonetheless, took for for much longer…
Nevertheless I had allowed for a great deal of time and we even spent a few minutes inside the Vietnam Airways Lotus Lounge earlier to the flight (though did not have time to go to the Priority Go lounges).
Boarding began at 8:40 am, solely 25 minutes earlier to departure.
Vietnam Airways 651
Ho Chi Minh Metropolis (SGN) – Singapore (SIN)
November 2024
Depart: 9:05 AM
Arrive: 12:15 PM
Interval: 02hr, 10min
Distance: 675 miles
Aircraft: Airbus A321-200
Seat: 16D (Financial system Class)
Onboard, we walked by the use of the 16-seat enterprise class cabin to hunt out our seats in row 16.
Seats
Financial system class consists of 162 seats in a 3-3 configuration. Seat pitch is an affordable 32 inches and seat width is eighteen inches.
There are no seatback screens on this aircraft, though theoretically there was streaming movement photos and TV reveals (further on that below).
I consider the color of the cabin is form of drab, nonetheless I suppose it masks stains successfully over time.
LOVE + Wi-Fi
Although a seatback card instructed a wi-fi neighborhood was on the market onboard that included “an entire lot of leisure packages in a lot of genres along with movement photos, music, actuality television, podcasts, audiobooks, and so forth…” it did not current up for me…so it was a quiet flight with no distractions by net or show.
Overhead screens did present a map of our progress to Singapore:
Vietnam Airways nonetheless publishes {{a magazine}}…
Meals + Drink
Lunch was served in the middle of the flight starting with a moist towelette, adopted by the meal, then drinks.
Lunch selections included beef with rice or fish with potatoes and inexperienced beans. It truly was the old-school “beef or fish” methodology to consuming with no further description. Augustine had the meat and appeared to take pleasure in it. I ordered the fish nonetheless didn’t eat it because of we had merely consumed an enormous breakfast. I hate shedding meals, nonetheless I am not going to stuff myself after I’m not hungry…
Service
The flight attendants have been kind and atmosphere pleasant and I pretty favored their uniforms. With a flight time of solely two hours, by the purpose meals and drinks had been distributed and picked up we’ve got been already approaching Singapore.
Bathrooms
The A321 has two bathrooms inside the rear of the aircraft for financial system class passengers and whereas largely clear, it appeared like one factor…and I hate to suppose what…had spilled all over the place within the lid of the lavatory seat (and dried).
CONCLUSION
We landed on time in Singapore and I must admit I was grateful for the uneventful flight on what might be a very busy journey day ahead.
I reviewed this aircraft in 2017 and nothing has modified…seven years later my experience was similar to the ultimate time.
Whereas I do know there’s one thing alluring about with the flexibility to disconnect on an aircraft, I do need flights with screens and net…I’ve gotten used to it. I was nonetheless able to maintain productive onboard with my laptop computer pc, nonetheless do convey one factor onboard to take care of you occupied.
Subsequent up: an prolonged layover in Singapore
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