Singapore and New York: May 2025: Day 4: Singapore to San Francisco to New York

Singapore/New York

May 2025: Day 4: Singapore to New York

Not much of a sunrise.

Deep fried chicken potstickers instead of deep fried shrimp ball today.

Red bean buns and chicken shu mai.

If you're a runner, they have you covered.

N29975, 5 year old 787-9, ready for the ride home.

Mount Blanket.

Gel pillow, menu, day blanket, amenity kit, PJ's, fluffy pillow, blanket, mattress pad. Menu.

Menu.

Lots of cargo ships.

Fluffy clouds.

Proper dish for nuts.

Salad and shrimp.

Shrimp not bad.

Chicken was fine.

Close-up.

Couldn't resist sponge cake.

Mid-flight tapas.

Laska-style noodles.

Hainan-style chicken. A bit overcooked.

Croissand and fruit looked good.

False advertising, that is NOT a souffle pancake.

13hr 30min flight time (actual), 8,461 miles (actual), 8,620 miles (Flightaware), 8,445 miles (great circle).

Old Boeing 777-200ER in front of a much newer 777-300ER.

Chicken porridge.

Breakfast in the United Polaris Lounge did the trick.

Lots of construction at Terminal 3.

N2737U, 8 year old 777-300ER for the flight to Newark.

Actual decent sized sink on the 77W.

3-4-3 in economy is tight.

2 ATC delays, then a 3rd for a tire change.

One of three big jacks.

Three hours late, but at least we're hauling-- 711mph ground speed (!).

Newark Airport Marriott is across the parking lots.

And one, uh, not recommended street crossing.

Nice enough inside.

Panoramic view of Terminals B and C.

Needed a salad.

Breakfast at the Westin Singapore's executive lounge was pretty average, a quick cab ride to the airport, and then a slightly delayed departure back to San Francisco, due to a late inbound aircraft. This delay unfortunately had some knock-on effects to my routing to New York, but a few hundred bucks later, United switched me from a two-stop routing with a now-impossible connection to a one-stop routing (aka: perils of separate bookings). Irony was United flight 2, my return, actually had much better than expected winds and arrived at SFO on-time, which meant I could have kept my original two-stop routing. *sigh*

That said, with Newark International Airport being a hot mess lately, skipping a connection to get in earlier seemed like it was worth the extra money. Although even with a 777-300ER for my SFO-EWR leg, there were still two delays due to ATC (totalling two hours) and then a third delay to change a tire that had a nail in it, leading to a significantly delayed arrival. About the only benefit of the delayed arrival was easy access to the Newark Airport Marriott.