What's up, everybody?
Philcaela here! :)
And we are at San Francisco Airport right now.
And we're going to Singapore!
We're super excited for this trip, however this flight is going to be over 16 hours,
that's really, really long.
This is actually the 2nd longest flight that United offers and it's one of the Top 10 longest
flights in the world, so it's gonna be an experience.
We're flying with United and we actually upgraded to Economy Plus for extra legroom since it's
gonna be such a long flight, so we're gonna take you around to see how it is.
Come with us!
Protip: if you don't have TSA PreCheck, go get it.
Honestly, I highly recommend it because I save so much time, especially flying international
there's a TSA PreCheck line, there's no one at all, whereas the other one was packed to
the brim.
For some reason, international families tend to just put like drinks and food and everything
in their bag so everyone gets searched, so that line takes so long to move!
So this video is going to be a little different from what we normally do, but we wanted to
capture this flight and also see if it was worth it if you're thinking about getting
Economy Plus.
This is home for the next 16 and a half hours!
We're flying on a Boeing 787-9 and it's gonna have a 3-3-3 configuration.
We're here up in Row 18 right now in Economy Plus.
We paid an extra $180 to get this seat.
A roundtrip was just $800, so hopefully it's worth it.
Online it said that you have 35 inches of room between you and the seat in front of
you up in Economy Plus and only 31 or 32 inches of room in the back (in Regular Economy).
Also we can recline an extra inch up in Economy Plus, whereas in Economy, you can only recline
3 inches.
So again, these little things are gonna make a big, big difference comfort-wise on a very
long flight like this.
And one more thing to note is that United actually has 2 nonstop flights a day from
San Francisco to Singapore.
One of them, this one, leaves at 11AM and the other one leaves at about 11PM, but this
one lands at 6PM or so and the other one lands at 6AM, and given the time change and the
jet lag and how tired we're gonna be, we really didn't wanna land at 6AM, so we chose this
one.
They really do have a MASSIVE selection of movies and TV shows to watch on this flight.
Should I watch it?
We're going to Singapore, so this'll get us in the mindset!
We're about 30 minutes in and first they start off with a typical drink and snack.
Just under an hour into the flight, we got food, I got the vegetarian fried rice and
she got the five-spice chicken.
Let's see how it is!
Not bad actually, it's not really a five-spice chicken, but it kinda tastes like a teriyaki
because it's really saucy.
And there's not a lot chicken, but there's a lot of rice, so I'm probably not gonna eat
it all.
Not a meal, but a good snack.
Just so we can try both, I got the vegetarian fried rice, it comes with egg, carrot, mushroom,
and the fried rice has a lot of soy sauce on it.
It's airline food, but not bad!
Now we're 2 hours in and we actually just got a little treat.
We got some vanilla bean gelato and some small bottles of Dasani water, this is nice!
It's pretty warm in here so it's nice to have something cold and sweet.
3 hours into the flight, a movie and a half later, and checking out the bathroom now.
Not really much to report in here, the mirror's pretty cool, but there's no amenities, uh,
yeah, it's a bathroom.
And something to keep in mind when you're flying nonstop from SFO to Singapore
is that you're either gonna be all daylight on the way there or all nighttime on the way
there.
We took off at 11AM and it's actually gonna be daylight outside the whole time that we're
flying.
Luckily they have these windows where you can actually electronically control how dark
or bright it is, so no need for window shade.
It's pretty cool!
The inflight wifi is available for I think $19 for an hour and $40 for the whole flight.
Honestly, I had a little bit of trouble just connecting to the wifi, so it's probably not
the most reliable.
But if you need it, it's available for what they say "basic browsing."
Definitely no Netflix or video streaming.
So I'm not a fan of cold sandwiches, so Phil's gonna eat this.
I'm gonna give this a fair shot, this is a turkey and cheddar sandwich, that came at about
the 7th hour or so just for a snack.
This is mostly bread, it's cold, and there's a slice of cheddar.
I mean we weren't really expecting it to be super good and if you're hungry go ahead and
eat it, but yeah not that great.
And this is why we bring snacks, I got Bark Thins, Sour Patch Kids, more gummies, Korean
chips, and jerky and more candy.
We brought a lot of snacks!
Fast forward ahead a couple naps and a couple movies later, we now have 2 hours left in
the flight and we just got our final meal.
We have a pasta, one with chicken and one with spinach.
I ordered the spinach and Micaela ordered the chicken.
This time the vegetarian option was better, the chicken was not that good, but it's airplane
food, you know?
Yeah, typically, we're definitely fans of getting protein with our dinner or with our
food, but the vegetarian one was this cheese-filled ravioli kind of thing with spinach on it.
Actually pretty enjoyable!
The chicken was not that great.
So the best part of this meal was probably the chocolate they gave us.
And one thing that we wanted to mention was that when were looking to upgrade to Economy
Plus, the prices were fluctuating like crazy almost everyday.
We saw them as low as $129 to upgrade and we ultimately ended up paying $180 each to
upgrade, but also well over $200 some days.
So if you want a good deal on Economy Plus, make sure you're checking the prices regularly
so you can see what's expensive and what's a good deal.
And so finally, almost 16 hours later, we're about to land and, honestly, super long flight,
but it was actually pretty comfortable and I do think that the Economy Plus upgrade was
worth it.
16 hours later, we finally landed!
And wow, pretty exhausted.
It's technically 3:30AM right now in San Francisco so we're a little tired, but we made it!
Yeah, I mean honestly 16-hour flight was very, very long, but it wasn't too bad thanks to
the Economy Plus getting some extra room and also there were tons of movies to watch, so
overall pretty decent flight!
But yeah if you're not a fan of airplane food, bring snacks, because they don't give you
that much food and it's a long flight, so you'll definitely get hungry.
I got really hungry, I brought a lot of snacks, but it was mostly candy, so don't do that.
Glad you could join us on this 16-hour adventure, even though it wasn't 16 hours for you to
watch this, this should give you a good idea of what to expect if you're flying from SFO
to Singapore or what these ultra-long haul flights are like in general.
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See ya next time :)