Divya Manian wrote:
> * Pack for Seattle trip starting this weekend.
> * Buy eeePC at Taipei (transit between Singapore and Seattle) and
> discover Linux all over again -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC
> * Plan and book tickets to Bangalore from Chennai for travel in early
> March.
> * Plan a trip to Vietnam in April - http://wikitravel.org/en/Vietnam
> * Start going to gym every 2 days from tomorrow.
All these sound like me. Except the blogging, and that I probably wouldn’t fly
to the US east coast through Singapore and Taipei .. would take a European
carrier instead.
Consider this ..
Lufthansa / Air France from Madras get you there in 10 hrs to CDG or FRA + a
6..7 hour direct flight to SEA, 2 hours or less for transit. You land in CDG /
FRA early in the morning, and you have enough time for a shower and some coffee
+ croissants in the lounge before you board your next flight (well, if you want
to shower etc, then make it a 3..3:30 hour transit, given extra heavy security
checks for US flights).
SQ will take you 4:30 hrs MAA-SIN, a whole day in SIN, and then a 16 hour ++
flight to EWR / JFK (stopover in TPE / ICN / HKG if you don’t want their ultra
long haul on the 777s, which are sold at a hefty surcharge), followed by (I
guess) United to SEA. And flying west to east makes you look and feel like a
warmed over zombie by the time you are stateside .. and then face a UA shuttle
EWR-SEA.
Ouch I say ouch.
Like I said, except the blogging. I haven’t touched livejournal in several
months, but am a regular on flyertalk.com (where I think you do need to be if
you travel as much sa you seem to do)
srs
ps: Welcome to silklist.
