The day starts off at 5.30AM, me and 
Before the booking flight, I was comparing between Malaysia flight operator namely Malaysia Airlines (MAS) & AirAsia. I knew that MAS had a new aircraft (Airbus A350) joining the fleet so I went and check it out, surprisingly the value is not far from what AirAsia offered (AirAsia only offered their A330), so why not?
But there's a catch that I found out, which is the flight back to KL is operated by China Airlines, which at that time of booking, I had no idea what it means and proceed to book and pay.
Hop back on to my journey from the Main Taipei Station catching the first train (Depart from the station at 6.15AM) towards Tao Yuan International Airport Terminal 1 at 6.00AM, the price was 160NTD (be sure to have this amount at your easy card) per way for an adult. The journey took around 40 mins and we reached Airport before 7.00AM and we managed to find our check-in counter (apparently is China Airlines counter), luckily is not many people which I think mainly because we came a bit late 😅.
After checking in our luggage, we were issued with our boarding pass which confirmed that we are boarding with China Airlines as opposed to MAS (since a few operator actually code-share with China Airline for this flight, namely Delta Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and MAS). The check-in reception arranged our seat at 32A and 32C, which at first I'm wondering why not 32B instead of 32C since we're together but he replied both is Window and Aisle seat 🤔. Without questioning more, we head towards the departure hall and face a super large crowd of passenger queue-ing up for security check.
After the immigration, we quickly walk towards our boarding gate at A5, upon reaching the gate yet another view of the crowd waiting in the hall and we concluded that you will need approx 2 hours (from 6.00AM) to get yourself to this boarding hall from Taipei Main Station.
While everyone is queueing up around, I was busy taking pictures, videos and enjoying the body of the aircrafts 😆. China Airlines indeed had a lot of Airbus A350s around here, I even lost count of them moving around the runway. Right after that, our seat number struck my mind and I went to google it "China Airlines A350 seat configuration map" and voila~, we just got seat UPGRADED 🙌🏻 according to the map and we're hoping it is. 😁
On 8.30AM sharp, crew starting to let passenger onboard the aircraft and our seat 32A and 32C is really premium economy seat 😬 with 2-3-2 configuration and also just right on the wing. Finally, I can take those photo and videos that I wanted over those window. Ambient is nice with the LED spectrum colour changing over time, our seat is really comfy with wider seat width, extra legroom (much like business class, although the business class is a bit larger) and WiFi is available as well (Pay-To-Use).
Before the aircraft being pushed back towards the runway, I took the chance to start taking photos before the air stewardess starting to ask the passenger to keep away gadgets.
A slight delay from the pushback as the captain announced that there's still a bit more luggage to be deposited into the cargo below, soon it's ready to be pushback to the runway, and proceed taxi-ing towards the take-off runways while waiting for other aircraft taking turns to take off and landing as well.
Once on the take-off runway with flaps deployed to the necessary level, the RR engine started to roar and sends out that 84,000 lbf (374 kN) of thrust pushing the 280 tons MTOW aircraft to the sky. While inside the cabin, it's greatly quieter than the other aircraft I've been to when the engine is on full load, thanks to Airbus 😊
Enjoying the beauty of the sky
After the take-off, we began to cruise at 40,000 feet at 900kph (True Airspeed) towards Kuala Lumpur while hitting some minor turbulence in the beginning of the journey, but I can't really feel that 😂. Past the few hiccups, flight attendants started to serve our breakfast given choice of Chicken or Fish, and we choose one of each. Alcoholic drinks were served together as well between wine (Red/White) and beer, I opted for red wine and
After my meal, I went off and take a rest before arrival as I had a Meetup with my car gang later night. After 2 hours+, flight started to descend to approach KLIA for landing, the crew started to prep up all the passenger onboard, while I'm taking few photos before landing.
15 minutes later, off we touch down at KLIA and greeted by the 32 degrees Celcius weather 😅 (freaking hot). It's been a pleasant flight on this A350 XWB and the upgraded seat as well hopefully, I get to fly onboard again with this aircraft and the Airbus A380 (I had yet to get onboard one) on a much longer journey. Time to disembark from the plane, collect our luggage at the terminal and head back to our home for some rest.
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