In Reply to: the point was posted by Janoo on Thursday, 25. September 2008 at 11:06 Bali Time:
The budget has a lot to do with it if you are using a budget airline as many do these days,i.e.air asia,tiger airways and many more ,as they are all point to point airlines and as such dont do transfers between flights so you have to collect your luggage and go OUT through immigration and cannot check in till approx 2 hours before your flight,even if you use a full service airline and are connecting to a budget one you have to go out.
Yes singapore airport is a great airport,but not so great if you are stuck landside for 2 or 3 hours with luggage,and free tours are very limited in the time they operate and also are only for "transit" passengers from airside and if you are waiting for check-in to open you are not classed as being transit.
All airports have approx same time frames for opening up for check-in no matter whether in singapore,jakarta or anywhere.
Ted