Singapore

So we got to Perth Airport the day before yesterday (Saturday night) to discover that they'd had an enormous security alert a couple of hours before and the whole international aorport had been locked down. Apparently there were 4 suspicious packages on a Malaysian Airways plane which had started to heat up whilst being unloaded and set off some alarms. (We still don't know what they were, but the airport duty manager speculated that it was likely that it was just some electrical equipment that someone had left the batteries in - you know how hot a laptop can get if it's left switched on and unventilated!)

The net result of this (after many hours of standing around waiting for news) was that our 1am flight was put back 'til 10am - Singapore airlines put is in a hotel in perth for the night, but by the time they'd decided to do this, we had a grand total of about 3 hours in the hotel. This of course meant that we missed our connecting flight to Heathrow at Singapore.

The Airline managed to get us booked into the equivalent flight the next day - which means that we're basically running 24 hours behind schedule. We've just checked in and will be boarding our next flight in a couple of hours.