The Journey Home
If you're flying back to Singapore, the only direct way is via Manila with Continental Airlines, and only on Wednesdays. Flight schedules are at the bottom of this page.
The stopover at Palau is quick and painless, and a mirror image of what happens when you go to Yap.
From Manila, you have three SQ flights to choose from to go back to Singapore. It is possible to take the 2.15pm flight back, even with all the security checks you have to go through. But here's how to make it easier:
- when you check in at Yap airport, ask the check-in counter staff to tag your luggage through to Singapore (of course, give the flight number and everything lah). If the counter staff appears unsure, just ask the senior staff - he/she will know what to do. It may require them to manually fill in a coloured tag, but what's important is that it can be done.
- fly Singapore Airlines. When you arrive at Manila, simply go to the transfer desk, give them your flight number and they'll do the rest. When we got there, an SQ staff took our passports, processed them while we went duty free shopping, then came back and looked for us to hand us back our passports, boarding passes and luggage receipts, and with the assurance that he saw our bags safely loaded onto the right plane home. He even changed the tag of one which had torn off.
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Flight Schedules
Yap - Singapore
YAP-MNL (via ROR)
Dep 0815 Arr 1030 (Wed only) CO891
MNL-SIN (daily)
Dep 0820 Arr 1150 SQ71
Dep 1415 Arr 1745 SQ73
Dep 1820 Arr 2159 SQ75
ROR = Palau
MNL = Manila
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