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When I had the opportunity to use frequent flyer miles for an overseas trip, I decided to use them to go over a different sea than usual for a trip to Asia in November 2002. Here is a report on that trip to Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
TRIP TO ASIA, NOVEMBER 2002
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on-screen map showing our progress, when we were at our northernmost point, over Alaska in November, and it was daylight. The end-of-flight meal was a breakfast, and I got a full egg-and-sausage dish.
We arrived at Narita airport, and we needed to take the passage out of NW’s concourse and go through security to re-enter. I went up to the big WorldClub there and used its interesting draft beer dispenser. This was a two-hour layover; I went back to the gate area when I thought boarding time might be approaching. This concourse was a relatively small circle surrounded by 747s, so it got crowded during this peak hub transfer time. The incoming flight of my plane to Hong Kong was late coming from New York, and it needed to get a security sweep before we boarded, so there was a delay. Eventually I took my priority boarding for the 5.5-hour flight to HK. I don’t remember the meal, just getting the chance to read the South China Morning Post and excitement at approaching my destination. I had the first of my two HK arrivals; it was odd to need to walk a ways, go downstairs, then take a train apparently back in the direction whence we came. The formalities and baggage claim went smoothly; I found an ATM and got money, bought an Octopus card, and found my way to the bus stop to get into town.
Two weeks later, for my return flight, I saw Friday dawn in Hong Kong and planned to see Friday dawn again in the U.S. I was at the airport in plenty of time for my 8.40 a.m. departure, and had my priority check-in for Business Class. They looked through my bag before checking it in. I took the agent’s offer of an upper deck seat although I was pre-assigned on the lower deck. With the pass I was given, I went to the HK WorldClub, a lounge shared by several airlines. I boarded when called; the upper deck on this 747-200 had only three rows of seats, giving it a club-like feeling as opposed to the bigger deck on the 747-400 I’d taken before. There was a change
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See photographs from:
Vietnam Gallery
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Macau Gallery
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Hong Kong Gallery
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Cambodia Gallery
