Tiger Airways and Singapore Budget Terminal

Tiger Airways is low cost airline based in Singapore that flies to many Asian destinations. The company uses the Singapore budget terminal as operational hub.

I flied three times with this company and I would like to share my impressions.

They have very good prices, it is one of the cheapest way to fly to other countries in Asia from Singapore, the service on flight is satisfactory. The interior of the airplane is simple but quite comfortable and clean, the flights were punctual, and as other low cost companies, they sell drinks and food on board. I didn’t like the flight attendant uniform, but it’s not relevant.

However, I need to comment about the budget terminal in Singapore where Tiger and other companies operates.

It’s not possible to compare the comfortable and sophisticated main terminals in Singapore with the budget terminal; it looks two totally different worlds. For some passengers it creates a bad impression about Singapore and about the airline companies that operates in that terminal.

Fortunately, the budget terminal is only a temporary solution in response to the emerging trend of low cost carriers in Asia. In September of 2012, they will close this terminal to build a new one.

I hope it will be in the same level of the other terminals, which makes the Changi International Airport in Singapore one of the bests in the world.

Tiger Airways

Singapore Budget Terminal

My favourite place in Singapore

All the city of Singapore is very nice! There are a lot of good places to go, see and enjoy. I could mention the Botanic Garden, East Coast Park, China Town, Little India, Clarke Quay, Sentosa Island, among others. But my favourite place in Singapore is the Marina Bay.

Marina Bay is located in the south of the island, and this region include the financial center of Singapore, the Merlion, the ArtScience Museum, the Singapore Flyer, the Esplanade, and a amazing building called Marina Bay Sands, that is a hotel, mall and casino.

The Marina Bay Sands is an icon of architecture. It’s famous because has a kind of boat on the roof of the three buildings and a pool with an infinite view, that is awesome.

The Esplanade is a theatre and a concert hall. The buildings have the shape of two durians, which is a famous fruit from the south Asia. It has a tasteful decoration.

Every night in front of Marina Bays Sands has a show of lights, water and music. It’s a good place to go out with friends and family. Everybody will enjoy it.

It’s not easy to describe this place; maybe through the picture you can have a better idea about this place and their buildings. It’s amazing to go. It is one of the best places that I have ever been, made ​​by the man.

Marina Bay Sands

ArtScience Museum

Financial Center

Esplanade

AirAsia Experience

Two of my passions are airplanes and flying. During my business graduation I researched and studied about air companies cases. In this blog I would like to share some experiences that I had flying in different companies around the world.

Flying back from KL to Singapore, I’ve travelled by Air Asia, in an Airbus A320.

AirAisia is a low cost company based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which uses the budget terminal (KLLC) in the KLIA Airport as operation’s hub, which is a very poor and bad structured terminal, it looks like a cargo warehouse, if you can avoid this terminal, do it.

Good things about this flight: the price and punctuality!

Bad things about this flight: The seats and the floor were dirty and many parts inside the airplane needs repairing. I was wondering, if inside the maintenance is so badly done, how is the rest of the airplane? Fortunately I arrived safe on our destiny.

The service was ok, I can’t say a lot about the service because the flight was very short. But I haven’t seen any problem, the flight attendants were polite. If you want a drink or to eat something you need to pay it. But it’s common at the most of low cost companies now a days.

It was good to see how this company works, if I need a cheap thicket in the future and if I don’t mind so much about comfort, I would search at AirAsia again.

The Brazilian view about Kuala Lumpur

Last weekend I traveled to KL in Malaysia! It was a good trip.
I flew from Singapore to KL by Tiger Airways, the flight was very good, very fast, but when I arrived I had a bad impression about the LCCT airport terminal. It was the worst airport that I have visited in all my short life.

I got the bus to the train station and a train to KL Central. It was easier than I though to find my hostel. I’ve stayed at Reggae Mansion Hostel. It was very good! Good location, good service, good rooms, nice beds, good price and also the breakfast is include, I recommend to you.

I’ve visited many places there, the places that I liked most were the Petronas Tower and the water park in front of the towers. It is an amazing building, nice architecture, very tall, it is beautiful. But I think it was expensive to visit the last floor and the skybridge, It’s about US26.00 for only 30 minutes of visit. But it was a good experience!

Other very interesting place is Batu Caves, which is a huge cave in a mountain in the north of KL. I was impressed about that mountain, it is very beautiful, it’s kind of a mystic place. There are a lot of monkeys.

I didn’t like the traffic, you need to be careful when you walk on the streets, there are motorcycles crossing the red line, riding on the sidewalk and in the opposite direction. And the city is a little dirty, I saw many cockroaches.

KL is a nice city, I liked to visit it, there are a lot of bars and clubs to go out, and good places to do shopping, it looks a happy city.

Petronas Twin Towers

Batu Caves

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Hello!

This is my first post in this blog. My intention with this blog is to practice my English writing skills.
My name is Fernando, I'm from Brazil, today I'm living in Singapore and I'm studing to take the IELTS next month, so because that I'm practicing my writing .
If somebody read it and see any mistake, feel free to correct me.

Have a good day!