• Home
  • About
    • Where has GhettoIFE gone?
    • For PR’s and Agencies (Changes and Corrections)
    • Privacy Policy
  • Snapshots
  • Trip Reports
  • Travel Plus…
    • … Technology
    • … Photography

Economy Class & Beyond

You are here: Home / Trips / Singapore and Bangkok / TRIP REPORT: Summer Premium Adventures – Scoot TR604 Singapore to Bangkok

TRIP REPORT: Summer Premium Adventures – Scoot TR604 Singapore to Bangkok

11/10/2019 by Kevincm

Scoot TR604 Singapore to Bangkok
Summer Premium Adventures

Singapore and Bangkok Trip Report

In this Summer Premium Adventure (Warning: Long!)

  • In the Summertime when the weather is hot…
  • Off to Heathrow, British Airways Galleries North Lounge
  • BA762 London Heathrow to Oslo – A321neo (EuroTraveller)
  • Oslo Airport, OSL Lounge
  • AY914 Oslo to Helsinki, Business Class
  • Helsinki Airport lounging
  • QR302 Helsinki to Doha (Business Class)
  • Doha Lounge Stop Part 1
  • QR946 Doha to Singapore (QSuites)
  • Hotel Indigo, Katong, Singapore
  • Exploring Hawker Markets
  • Intercontinental, Bugis, Singapore
  • Orchids Everywhere – The National Orchid Garden
  • Off to Changi featuring the Singapore Pokemon Centre
  • Scoot TR604 Singapore to Bangkok
  • Dream Hotel, Bangkok
  • Exploring the Wats
  • Food Mistakes in Bangkok (Or Regrets. I have a more than a few)
  • Back to Suvarnabhumi, Qatar Airways Lounge, Bangkok Airport
  • QR833 Bangkok to Doha (QSuites)
  • Another long Doha Layover
  • QR175 Doha to Oslo
  • Back at Oslo Airport
  • BA767 Oslo to London Heathrow (EuroTraveller)
  • Homeward bound
  • Always Curious

TR604 Singapore Changi to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport
Scoot Airlines, Seat 7F (Switched from seat 7A), Airbus A320
875 Miles flown.

a group of people in a hallway an airplane parked on the tarmac a person with a backpack on a plane

I was welcomed aboard this Scoot Airbus A320 (ex TigerAir A320), and the first thing I noticed was how tightly configured this bird was.

a group of people in an airplane
Front row seats 

Welcome to the land of 28” Seat pitch, with old seats. And this matters. I’ve tried 28” seats for some time – and there are a lot of optimised designs out there (the Acro Series 3/6LC, The Recaro SL3510 and so on).

This seat.. isn’t optimised.

a seat with a seat belt on it
My seat (in the end)

a person holding a book a person sitting on a seat
Check that legroom 

a camera on a person's leg
Actually.. don’t

a group of people sitting on an airplane
Cabin during boarding

These planes haven’t been through any seating upgrade. Whilst newer builds will get Recaros, we have the older Weber Aircraft Seats here. With a recline option built-in.

In an ultra-dense formation like this, this is an unoptimised seating layout at best, and at worst – it is god awful. And I’m heading towards the god awful side. A bench would have been better than these Weber seats… and a lot more comfortable.

Settling in, I was politely asked if I would swap seats so a couple could sit together, As it was a window for a window, I wasn’t too objectionable for that. Speaking of the seat, do you think it was aligned to the window?

Nope

a seat with a seat belt on it
Alignment. We’ve heard of it.

a seat with a piece of paper on it
Not a lot of pitch

a person's leg in a pocket
Even on some of the 28/29″ I’ve flown and tested, there is still a little knee room. Here – none.

a ceiling with lights and people in the background
Overhead panel. At least the air vents are there.

With a full aircraft loaded, it was time for our A320 to head off to Bangkok. A safety demonstration was carried out manually, and we were soon on our way.

 

 

a hand holding a safety information sign a sign with instructions on it a poster of a flight instructions a yellow sign with black text
Safety card

We taxied out to the runway – and it’s always interesting to look at other airports operations and carriers when you’re far from home.

an airplane parked in a terminal
IndiGo Airbus A320

an airplane on the tarmac
Scoot Airbus A320 and Singapore Airlines Boeing 777

a white airplane on a runway  a large white airplane on a runway
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance billboard plane… in white!

an airplane on a runway
Scoot Airbus A320 taking off

Eventually, TR604 turned for the runway… and its two engines powered up for a take-off run.

a view of a city and a body of water from a plane

a body of water with boats in it

an airplane wing and sky

 

 

a plane wing in the fog

a plane wing with a large engine

With the aircraft in the air – Scoot put on the sales patter straight away. Heck, either Ryanair taught the how, or Ryanair learned off them.

Ho-hum.

a hand holding a book a menu of food on a book

I took a look at the sales pages, with Scoot pushing its food and drink options.  Thankfully, I didn’t see anyone have their drinks taken from them – so maybe they’ve got less aggressive on that front.

an open book with an advertisement

Saying that, for the #avgeek, they cater well to souvenirs – which is good to see.

a instructions on a plane
28.5″ seats. Me thinks not.

This plane had no IFE embedded into the seats, no in plane wi-fi or no in-plane IFE server – so the magazine and the window were the entertainment options. Meanwhile, I had not adjusted to time zones well, so with the white noise of an a pair of IAE engines and a poorly placed bulkhead… I dozed off until the top of decent.

I can make a habit of this on low-cost/semi-boring segments. I woke up for some sales segments and dozed straight back to sleep. Mainly as the captain had managed to find every bump between Singapore and Bangkok. As such, it was a flight to fall asleep on, rather than stay awake.

clouds and sky from an airplane

aerial view of clouds from an airplane

an airplane wing and clouds

At the top of descent, immigration forms were handed out for Thailand (something I wish they did at the beginning of service). In a rush, I did the paperwork (mostly reading it- but shoving in what I thought looked right).

a group of people sitting in an airplane
Crew hiding away.

Thankfully, I did this before the tray tables had to be secured and everything was meant to be upright.

The aircraft vectored around the area as it descended through cloud layers and closing in on Suvarnabhumi airport.

clouds in the sky

With ease, TR604 cut through the cloud and landed safely at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport.

an airplane wing and wing of an airplane

aerial view of a city and a river an aerial view of a city an airplane wing and a city an aerial view of a city
Closing in on Bangkok

With TR604 on the ground, Sunny Side Up decided it was time to hunt for a gate. There was a bit of a taxi around, passing some local traffic, but eventually, he aircraft found a gate to park at.

an airplane wing on a runway
Pulling off the active

a large building with a hole in the middle of the road
Construction work

an airplane on a runway
Thai Airways Airbus A350 landing

a group of airplanes parked at an airport
Coming onto stand

a large airplane parked at an airport
Thai Airways Boeing 777-200

And for me – it was a good sign we had been docked to a proper finger gate as opposed to a hardstand.

With the chimes to undo seat belts, there was a mass surge forward to the exit.

a large building with white dome roofs
We were still waiting to disembark whilst the luggage was being unloaded.

With a little window opening to get out of my row, I took it, grabbing my bag on the way.

I thanked the crew and headed out to the terminal.

Overall: As a method of getting from A to B, Scoot will do that for you without a problem. And as a bare basic Low Cost Carrier – they did that for around £65 or so with a bag thrown in at that price. Which again, isn’t bad value. However, the seating on these aircraft let them down badly. Putting in a reclining seat on a high density aircraft like this is sheer madness that’s filed under “unforgivable”.

And I hate to say it, but sticking in non-reclining seats would be an improvement – least of all, they’re better designed at the back to give more knee room, whilst optimised in the seat for comfort as well as not moving at all.

If you’re flying Scoot – do yourself a favour and get the extra legroom seats – especially on the old Tigerair aircraft. Your legs will thank you for it.

Either that or pay double to fly Thai Airways or Singapore Airlines.

Next: Into Bangkok and The Dream Hotel


Welcome to Economy Class and Beyond – Your no-nonsense guide to network news, honest reviews, with in-depth coverage, unique research as well as the humour and madness as I only know how to deliver.

Follow me on Twitter at @EconomyBeyond for the latest updates! You can also follow me on Instagram too!

Also remember that as well as being part of BoardingArea, we’re also part of BoardingArea.eu, delivering frequent flyer news, miles and points to the European reader

Related

Filed Under: Singapore and Bangkok, Trip, Trip Reports, Trips

Comments

  1. Nikhil says

    11/10/2019 at 11:53 pm

    Hi Kevin, the IndiGo picture that you clicked is not a B737, it’s an A320. Just a small correction needed.

    • Kevincm says

      12/10/2019 at 5:38 am

      Thanks. I really was tired when popping that picture into the post…

  2. Nicholas Lim says

    13/10/2019 at 1:10 am

    Scoot flies to Don Mueang on their 787 fleet, I’d do that over the A320 to Suvarnabhumi…

  3. Mike says

    13/10/2019 at 6:37 am

    Stop complaining while flying on budget.

  • Bluesky
  • Email
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • RSS
  • Threads

Recent Posts

  • Thai Airways to use the Recaro R3 seat for their upcoming A321neo aircraft
  • Data Storage Adventures with a UGreen NAS – Part 2: Which NAS to go for?
  • Air Niugini adds a further two Airbus A220 aircraft
  • Flix to order Taglo High Speed Trainsets
  • Arlanda Express to purchase new trains from Stadler

Email Newsletter

Sign up to receive email updates daily and to hear what's going on with us!

Privacy Policy
Copyright © Economy Class & Beyond All Rights Reserved.
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Economy Class & Beyond with appropriate and specific directions to the original content.