TRAVEL GUIDE MYSELF

This is my personal experiences with the travel to Sabah, Sandakan. The flight procedure, the steps and all the things I did in the airports.

Generally, the procedures are almost the same for every airports. It mostly depends on,

1. >>If you are checking in your baggage. ( This means your luggage are under the airport responsibility ; because it is not carried on your hands into the cabin)

2. >>If you are locals ( travelling domestically or internationally)

3. >>If you are foreigner (travelling domestically or internationally)

Take my flight from Senai Airport Johor to Kota Kinabalu Airport Sabah and then to Sandakan Airport Sabah as example,

Check-in yourself >>> Check-in your baggage >>> security check >>> Proceeding to boarding gate >>> Boarding

In Senai Airport

a. Check-in myself by “online check-in” in airasia check-in service in 14 days to 1 hour before flight.

b. Getting my boarding pass( ticket) and print it out instantly.

* Other ways include printing boarding pass in airport( Kiosk machine that ask for your booking no.( you have your booking no. in the travel itinerary)

* Paying 10 MYR for a checking-in service in the check-in counter and get a boarding pass.

c. I don’t have any checked baggage. So, I will be more helpful to those without checked baggage.

d. Now proceed to the baggage security check. You will see the ‘Departure” sign board, this entrance is just behind the MPH bookstore and just beside a clock & watch store. Let the guard check your boarding pass and your IC. Your baggage will be passed through an X-ray scanning machine. You might be asked to leave your phone and any electrical gadgets in the machine. You will then enter a special door which might be alarmed if you have any metal/electrical gadget with you. You might be asked for a thorough body check too.

e. Before you so upstairs, you will be have your tickets checked again, weight your baggage.

f. Upstairs, you will see seats and tv screens with boarding gate no. you will have to go to. Listen closely to the announcement and go the boarding gate as fast as possible so that you can skip the queue.

g. Have your ticket checked again and then follow the way to your plane.

In Kota Kinabalu Airport

a. I think this is the hardest part, okay, now , follow the crowd to the “landing” kind of room.

b. Look for the counter “ Malaysian passport” , by convention, it will be a long queue with chaotic atmosphere as the room is considerably small.

c. Prepare your IC to be checked. Boarding pass is not checked here.

d. Look for the “Keluar” sign board and welcome to the 2nd airport, Kota Kinabalu airport.

e. You should now get ready for the continuous flight from KK to Sandakan. Always check on the tv screen and compare it with your flight no. Notice when you can check in.

f. Go for the “Departure” station again, and have your baggage a security checked again. The station is in the far left end of the airport.

g. Go and have your IC and boarding pass checked. This is done at a counter stated” Sandakan”.

h. Then you are at a restroom with lots of seats. Wait for the same announcement as in Senai Airport for your gate no.

In Sandakan Airport

a. Just follow the crowd and look for the “Exit” sign board.

b. Welcome to Sandakan.