Going to Jeddah

It was Sunday. This day I and Nuri went to Jeddah to undergo Umra Pilgrimage. We chose the operator, the Patuna Tour and Travel Agency, to facilitate us. Rahutama dropped us at the airport at 11:00. The operator staffs welcomed us. The took everything to serve us checking in. I got seat 32B while Nuri was on 33B. However, on board she changed her seat to 32B and I was on the 32A. At 11:45 Garuda flight GA237 departed to Jakarta. We landed at the Soekarno Hatta Airport of Jakarta at 12:30.

After embarking we gathered on the international departure area. We received a guidance book informing the list of the group members. We were in the group brown 2. A new boarding pass was respectively distributed along with the passport and the certificate of vaccination. A single entry visa to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was stickly attached on a passport page. Then, we were guided to the immigration desk where we checked in the international departure area. The operator provided lunch in the Emerald Lounge. Good taste foods and drinks were available although little variety.

Our flight ✈ GA 982 was scheduled to take off 16:55. However, after on board for a while the pilot announced that we had to delay the taking of after they had fixed the technical problem. A moment later the pilot announced that we had to change the plane. We were off board and stay in the waiting room again. Finally, at 20:30 we successfully took off for Jeddah with a different aircraft.

On the way, the Garuda crews served us with twice of meals, in the first with fish 🐠 dish and the second was chicken 🐔 dish. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-300 served each passenger with a TV 📺 display that could entertain us and told our position.