Finally I’m on my trip of a lifetime. After a few weeks of preparation from leaving my job to moving my stuff, I finally got on the plane and flew out to my first destination: Taiwan.
My flight was a Malaysia Airlines 1:45am direct flight to Taipei. I arrived around 11:30pm at the airport for my flight. The first thing I noticed once at the airport was how many people there were at this time of night and the number of flights still leaving. I guess all the Asia flights leave around this time too.
The whole flight took a little over 12 hours. In order to help us adjust to the time difference, the plane followed a schedule similar to the destination. So a few hours into the flight, we were served dinner, then about 8 hours of nap time, then followed by breakfast right before arriving at the destination.
While the airline food was OK, what I was really impressed was the in-flight entertainment system Malaysia Air had. Essentially it was an on-demand entertainment system made by Select On Demand that had on-demand movies, TV shows, music, games, and flight status. Really cool! I’ve actually seen this system in a hotel before, so it was awesome to see it being used elsewhere as well. During my flight, I got to watch Spiderman 3 and Shrek 3 all in the latest movies selection. The games selection was quite poor with a bunch of cell-phone-type puzzle games. In-flight status was great because I can quickly see where the flight is currently at. About the worst part of my experience with this system was the remote was still sticky with gunk from the previous flight. I can only imagine how much germs are on that thing.
Well that’s about it for my flight. And yes, I did lose a day on my flight. I left on Friday morning at 1:45am in LA and arrived on Saturday morning 5:45am in Taipei. Now I can literally say “where has the time gone?”