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Flying with TAP Air Portugal From Lisbon to London Heathrow

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

About 40 minutes on the aircraft, we were finally on our way, no updates from the Captain until later part of the flight. While taxing to the runway, it started raining and off we went! The turbulence was not as bad as what I was anticipating and for most parts of the flight, it was smooth. Goodbye Lisbon, until next time!

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My Tribute to Vistara Part 2: Flying Vistara's Airbus A321neo From New Delhi To Singapore

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

When we reached our aircraft, we were the first batch to board so that gave me a chance to explore the cabin. For the flight itself, after take off at Delhi, we encountered quite a bit of turbulence and also more turbulence happened during the crossing through the Bay of Bengal. On final approach onto runway 20R.

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Flying the Boeing 737 MAX 8 with Singapore Airlines (Part 1: SIN-PEN)

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Once that was done, we spent about 1/4 of our flight time taxing to runway 20L. There was quite a bit of turbulence in the middle of the flight but landing in Penang was a smooth affair. As the Boeing 737-8 is a single aisle narrow-body aircraft. The taxi to runway 20L seem to take forever.

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Flying The Boeing 737 MAX 8 With Singapore Airlines (Part 2: PEN-SIN)

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Gone were the days when Singapore Airlines operated wide-body on popular cities such as Penang and Phuket with the Boeing 777-200 (Non-ER rated) and now the airline is operating the smaller narrow-body aircraft which allows more flexibility and adjustment of the frequency or up-gauge the aircraft on the routes when is needed.

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Flying with TAP Air Portugal From London Heathrow To Lisbon

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

As far as I know the A321neo-LR is the only narrow-body aircraft in TAP's fleet that has seatback screens in both Economy and Business Class. He mentioned about the airport control having issue which I assumed has to be in Lisbon as the aircraft besides us arrived later but departed before us.