Jahore filled up quick with SQ diversions and Batam became the flavour of the arvo, company fuel would have seen us there.
Does SIA still have Paya Lebar as that ridiculous alternate on
its CFPs? I know of not one SIA diversion (NOT ONE) to Paya
Lebar due to any reason (wx, runway closure etc). If you were
to go back in history to the mid-70s, Lebar was chosen by the
then "new" management in order to avoid payload penalty on
its 707s out of Bahrain (the previous expat MSA management
always used Muar so that you had something to play with if
and when the wx turned to crap.