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Hong Kong - Bangkok - Dubai EK385 Sector 1 26DEC03 EK385 HKG/BKK Date: 26DEC03 Airline: EmiratesFlight: EK385 Aircraft: Airbus Industrie A330-243 Registration: A6-EAB (Del. 30NOV00) Seat: 21K- Economy Class Departure Bay: N22 Scheduled Departure Time: 2345 Actual Departure Time: 2348 Take-off Time: 0007 Departure Runway: 07R Departure Weather: Wind 030/10, VIS 6000, Temp. 17°C, Dew pt. 1°C, 1024HPa Estimated Arrival Time: 0135 Arrival Runway: 21R Arrival Weather: Wind Calm, VIS 6000, Temp. 24°C, Dew pt. 16°C, 1014HPa Touch-down Time: 0128 Actual Arrival Time: 0135 Arrival Bay: 35 Flight Time: 2 Hours 21 Minutes Block Time: 2 Hours 50 Minutes Flight Mileage: 965nm Cruising Altitude: FL390 Cruising Speed: M0.82 *There is a time difference between Hong Kong and Bangkok. Bangkok is 1 hour behind Hong Kong. We joined a 10 days tour to Egypt and since there's no direct flights between Hong Kong and Cairo, we had to make a few connections. Different tour operators chose different carriers to Cairo, the one we joined uses Emirates to Cairo stopping at Bangkok and Dubai. Since there's a 9 transit time in Dubai, the tour ran a half day city tour in Dubai. Other carriers which tour operators uses include Gulf Air or Dragonair + Egypt Air. Anyway, since we joined the tour, we had to arrive a little earlier than usual at the airport, but not too bad this time, since there were only around 12 people in the tour (we occupied 8 of those 12 places). After finding our tour leader (who arrived later than us), we got our tickets to check-in ourselves. Check-in was swift since there were very little people (and turned out the flight wasn't full on the HKG/BKK sector). I got a window seat which was great =D. After filling out the health declaration form, we went through immigration and security then waited at the gate after browsing through a few shops. I boarded shortly after the boarding call so that I could take a few photos. 
Airside
of HKIA.
Gate22, EK385 departing to Bangkok and Dubai.
Economy
Class seats.
Economy
Class during boarding.
Looking
out from seat 21K with a CI aircraft at bay 24.
After
take-off.
Meal- Chicken
Meal- Fish
Descend
started shortly after the meal trays were collected and we landed at
Bangkok a few minutes ahead of scheduled arrival time. All passengers
bound for Dubai were told to sit in their seat and no electronic
equipments could be used and they also said no flash photography too ><...
Anyway, waited a while and saw a change of crews and the loading of new
meals. Some cleaning staff also came onboard to make sure the empty seats
looked clean. During the transit time, the crews made an announcement on
the PA warning if anyone was caught smoking, they would be offloaded and
handed over to the police. This seems that there were people suspected of
smoking =_=. Passengers from Bangkok to Dubai boarded shortly which filled
the cabin up. A total of 273 passengers were onboard on the Bangkok/Dubai
sector.
Sector 2 27DEC03 EK385 BKK/DXB Date: 27DEC03 Airline: EmiratesFlight: EK385 Aircraft: Airbus Industrie A330-243 Registration: A6-EAB (Del. 30NOV00) Seat: 21K- Economy Class Seat Factor: 96% Departure Bay: 35 Scheduled Departure Time: 0245 Actual Departure Time: 0256 Take-off Time: 0309 Departure Runway: 21R Departure Weather: CAVOK Estimated Arrival Time: 0625 Arrival Runway: 12L Arrival Weather: CAVOK Touch-down Time: 0641 Actual Arrival Time: 0650 Arrival Bay: C14 Flight Time: 6 Hours 32 Minutes Block Time: 6 Hours 54 Minutes Flight Mileage: 2724nm Cruising Altitude: FL360/380 Cruising Speed: M0.83 *There is a time difference between Bangkok and Dubai. Dubai is 3 hours behind Bangkok. After all the passengers have boarded, we pushed back and continued the flight to Dubai. However, there was no meal service after take-off this time, but about 1.5 hours prior to landing. 
Breakfast- Noodles
Transit
information at Dubai.
Quite
lucky to get be parked at a remote bay (giving the opportunity for
photos).
Overall,
the crews were only average in service standard. The seat was really
uncomfortable as the back section was really hard. Not good at all,
especially for long flights ><. Meals were not bad. Landing was also not
good. On both flights, the landing were really hard... felt like the
aircraft didn't have any suspension... but I guess it's a problem with the
aircraft since the tech crew was also changed in Bangkok. Not a terribly
good experience for flying the airline for the first time (and also
knowing 2 more sectors on the A332).
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