My Trip back to Jogja

Yesterday I departed at 4 AM from Bandung catching a travel to Soekarno-Hatta Int'l Airport. At about 6.30 AM I arrived at Terminal 1C.

::: sunrise

Anyway, something had really made me angry that morning!! Damn!! Here is the story: After checking in and paying the airport tax I walked to the Waiting Lounge. I was so hungry and decided to have breakfast at one restaurant there. Goddamn it!! The price was so expensive!! I ordered the cheapest one: a Rp 15,000.oo fried chicken and an iced tea which cost Rp 4,000.oo. So, the total was Rp 19,000.oo. Then, when the bill came, I had to pay Rp 24,000.oo!! WTF!!! Of course I didn't want to pay that much!! I had an evidence. The menu book was still in my table and I showed the waiter that the price of fried chicken was Rp 15,000.oo. He insisted it was Rp 20,000.oo!! He said in OTHER menu books and in the computer it was Rp 20,000.oo. Hello?? I didn't give a crap on what the OTHER menu books had. I ordered my meal based on the menu book they gave to me, NOT the other menu books or the computer, right? I ordered it because its price was Rp 15,000.oo on MY menu book!! Finally they gave in and gave my Rp 5,000.oo back. This incident brought my mood down a bit after that....

::: controversial fried chicken

At 7.30 AM I walked to the waiting lounge. At 8.45 AM we embarked the aircraft (Mandala's Airbus A 320-212 reg code PK-RMG) of flight RI 350. At 9 AM the aircraft took off thru runway 25L Soekarno-Hatta Airport. Well, Mandala's Airbus A320 is a modern and cool aircraft. However, now Mandala is a LCC, of course the seat configuration is not as comfortable as Garuda's, hahaha... . The seat pitch was so narrow that when I sit, my knees touched the seat in front of me!!

::: inside Mandala's Airbus A320-212 reg code PK-MBG flight no RI 350

::: Mandala's Boeing 737-4Y0 reg code PK-RIT looked from my window (you can see my aircraft's wing and machine)

Plus, there was a woman sitting in front of me who was so egoistic!! She bended her chair backward (towards me). Hey!! She must have known that the seat was so narrow and she did that?? Well, okay, since I still could move pretty freely, I didn't complain. HOWEVER, five minutes before landing, the stewardess asked all passengers to put all chairs back to the normal position (for safety) and she did NOT do that!! WTF!! Lucky then one stewardess walked and asked her to do so! hahaha... .

At 10 AM we landed at runway 09 at Adisucipto Airport. Yeaahh!! We landed at runway 09, I had been waiting for that for a long time (I seated at A yesterday). So I can look Yogyakarta from the sky, cool. The last time I went to Yogyakarta catching a flight (which was this time), we landed at runway 27.

::: Mandala's Airbus A320-212 reg code PK-MBG after landing