(31) BACK TO AUSTRALIA

You've seen Mya in her Singapore Airline costume.... Well she always flies in it - even when on other airlines (just to rub it in). But here's a photo that we took on the plane leaving Singapore coming back to Australia. And guess what, a friend of mine who is pretty high up in Singapore Airlines has asked for the photo and a story to put in their magazine. Mya always wanted to have her face in a magazine - I told her she had to wait until she could take orders before she could do modeling - I'll keep it a secret from her until we get a copy.

“Welcome aboard Little Sister, will you be helping us today?”

On a flight from Singapore to see her grandmother in Melbourne, Mya Rowlands
joins the crew in welcoming other passengers on board.

When Miranda and George Rowlands flew to Vietnam to finally pick up their adopted 3 month old daughter, they were delighted when Singapore Airlines surprised them with an upgrade to row 1 for their return flight to Singapore where they needed to stop to arrange on-going visas. Little Mya’s new dad jokingly advised her not to use her first airplane flight experience as a bench mark and expect this class of travel nor this level of service for the rest of her life.


She has been very lucky to experience many flights on Singapore Airlines since then, and has always enjoyed their wonderful friendly service. Her family always prefers Singapore Airline and agrees it is the best airline in the world… by far.



They now reside in Singapore and Mya’s father flies so often that Mya once asked him at Changi Airport “Is this your second office Dad?”



George Rowlands bought Mya her outfit at Changi Airport. Mya proudly wears her Singapore Airline look-alike uniform whenever and wherever she flies, and even when she goes to Changi Airport to pick up her father.



Mya will be 6 years old in November. She has lived in 5 countries, held 3 passports, travelled to 14 different countries - many of them several times. To say she is well travelled is an understatement.

Mya and her brother Brett have a running competition as to who has visited more countries. At the moment Brett is ahead by ??, but he does have a 22 year age advantage!

Apart from her mother, father and brother, her travelling companion is Felix Rabbit, a soft toy who travels in the little red travel case (see photo). Felix is from a series of books and he has many travel adventures - somewhat like Mya, his owner. They watch Krisworld together and play quietly on the long flights. Felix has his own home made laminated passport that Miranda Rowlands made, similar to Mya’s Australian Passport. It gets stamped at Immigration points around the world when staff are friendly enough to give a toy rabbit an entry stamp – "just for the record". Felix is usually planted on the Immigration desk for identification, Mya smiles at the officer and then the passport gets stamped. ...The irony on this flight was that Felix wasn't IDed , and thank goodness, as he was at home in Singapore and Mya had her stuffed pet dog Baby Rusty in her suitcase instead. So probably a million border rules were broken .

Singapore Changi Airport Immigration staff thought she looked so cute as a mini Singapore Airline crew member, that they let us go through the "CREW ONLY" queue..

Even Melbourne airport staff stamped Felix's passport WHICH IS AMAZING as they are globally renowned for their grumpiness.... but on this occasion they all melted, came over to Mya to get a close up look at the little mini flight crew member, and she was out of the airport in no time.....


Not only does she fly the flag for Singapore Airlines, but Mya is a miniature Ambassador for Singapore. She has worn the uniform on several National and Multi-cultural Days where school children have been asked to wear and parade their National Costume.

Mya and her family have adopted Singapore as their home and hope to become permanent residents there.



When asked what she wants to be when she grows up, she vacillates between being a magazine model, a captain or crew member on Singapore Airlines or an astronaut. Choosing any of these options she’s bound to be flying many more miles with Singapore Airlines. When you ask her parents what they’d like to do, their answer is to one day fly their family “a class above first” in the new A380.