Many people have favourite airlines, and so do we. Singapore Airlines really impressed us when we first flew with them nine years ago. It had better have been so--we were in the air for twelve hours from Vancouver to Seoul, then another six from Seoul to Singapore. We flew Singapore Airlines again, (this time from Taipei to Singapore) and they were as good as ever. The flight was only four hours this time. Good food, no skimping on the booze buggy, good movies, and nice flight attendants. The airport in Singapore is at Changi, the site of the WWII POW camp made famous in James Clavell's "King Rat". Sometimes people refer to Singapore disrespectfully as "Singabore". “Oh sure", (people grudgingly admit), "It's clean and safe and...but it's so boring! No doing this, no doing that, that'll
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