Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition – November 2018

businesstraveller.com

UPFRONT

SEPTEMBER ISSUE COMPETITION WINNERS: Mak Ricky (Hong Kong ) and

Kok Hui Pung (Malaysia) each won a three-night stay in a Club Premium Harbour View

Room at Hotel VIC on the Harbour in Hong Kong.

THIS MONTH’S prizes come from

Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai Pudong.

Located in the heart of Shanghai’s

Pudong Lujiazui business district

within the 21st Century Tower, the

Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai Pudong

takes a 1930s-inspired aesthetic and

dials it up with a vibrant ambience

to create a property that offers a stay

that is second to none. Whether it’s

the hotel’s stellar food and beverage

offerings – from Cantonese restaurant

Shang-Xi to Italian eatery Camelia –

or its indulgent leisure facilities such

as the spa, Flare, or the infinity pool,

guests will have plenty to explore

during their stay.

For more details and to enter, visit

businesstraveller.com/competitions

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Two winners this month will each win a two-night stay in

a Deluxe room including breakfast for two.

AFTER a year-long

absence, first class

seating has returned

to Garuda Indonesia’s

Tokyo flights following the deployment of the airline’s three-class Boeing 777-

300ER aircraft on select services to Tokyo Haneda Airport late last month.

Seats are currently listed as being available to book on six flights per week

on its daily GA874/GA875 service, with Sunday (Jakarta-Tokyo) and Monday

(Tokyo-Jakarta) the only days when first class seating isn’t available.

Garuda scaled back its premium cabin class last October, with its services to

Tokyo and Amsterdam notably losing the first class oering. That left its London

Heathrow flights as the only long-haul service oering first class seating, until

last month when the airline dropped its non-stop service to London altogether.

garuda-indonesia.com

FIRST

AND

LAST

WIN A FREE HOTEL

STAY IN SHANGHAI

NOVEMBER 2018

THE newly reopened CR Smith

American Airlines Museum has created

a game for adults and children to test

their skills at baggage handling. Each

bag has a bar code that is scanned and

then a screen tells you where the bag

has to be placed. From the moment

you start on the timer, and whatever

time you achieve, the chances are

you’ll immediately take all the bags

out of the hold again and try to beat

your time. Great fun, and to make

it easier the bags are uniform in

size and, thankfully, are empty. No

excuse of a bad back to avoid playing.

crsmithmuseum.org

BAGGAGE FUN

IS CASSSingapore Airlines

passengers are getting an audio

upgrade with the carrier oering

wireless Bang and Olufsen

headphones to passengers flying

in its new Airbus A380 first class

suites on flights to Sydney, Hong

Kong, Shanghai, Zurich and London.

The headphones are variants

of Bang and Olufsen’s noise-

cancelling Beoplay H9i model,

which are able to operate for up to

18 hours of playtime and feature an

aluminium touch interface, along

with real leather and adaptive

memory foam on the earpieces.

First class passengers on

services that won’t get the

wireless headphones aren’t going

completely ignored, however, with

wired variants of the Beoplay H9i

being rolled out to all A380 suites

and first class passengers this

month. singaporeair.com

FIRST CLASSSingapore Airlines

HOLD THE WIRE