chinesetakeaway wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:25 pm Do you need to pass through immigration to catch a flight with a different airline? I fly from PP to Bangkok with Bangkok Airways and 4 hrs later to Brussels with Qatar Airways. It's not a connecting flight. I have no checked in luggage.

Not if you have no check-in bags. Just look for the transfer signs and the Qatar desk to collect your boarding pass. You will pass through security, so don't buy duty free bottles in PP.
You may even find that PG in PNH will check a bag through to Brussels but don't rely on it.

Put running shoes on - transit to/from PP to anywhere else is usually at the complete other end of that shit hole of an airport, if you can do 10km in 30 mins, you have a chance.

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:05 pm Put running shoes on - transit to/from PP to anywhere else is usually at the complete other end of that shit hole of an airport, if you can do 10km in 30 mins, you have a chance.

Come on Spigzy, he's got four hours! The exercise is good for you.
And if you think BKK is bad, it's high time you went to Europe.

Have a good flight home to Brussels!

armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:11 pm

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:05 pm Put running shoes on - transit to/from PP to anywhere else is usually at the complete other end of that shit hole of an airport, if you can do 10km in 30 mins, you have a chance.

Come on Spigzy, he's got four hours! The exercise is good for you.
And if you think BKK is bad, it's high time you went to Europe.

I confess that Frankfurt was borderline worse in July - smaller terminal, but to transfer had to walk east to west full length of terminal, upstairs, west to east, full length of terminal, up some stairs ...

The thing is, Frankfurt had fantastic food and usually more time between connections ... although in a very un-Lufthansaesque manner a delay in Marseille (can the French do anything right?!) meant I missed my Frankfurt flight, I had to run that sod 'just in case' ... with a 5-year old and his backpack on my shoulders, my backpack and a small wheeled case. Hotel overnight (very nice), on the flight to Vienna around lunchtime, then to Bangkok - where I also had to do 'the run' again through Bangkok.

So, for distance, I grant you perhaps there could be worse - but for sheer lack of soul or any kind of organisation, Bangkok is by far the worst major airport [Jeremy Clarkson voice] ... in the world.

paparazzi wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:35 am For future reference. It would have been easier to catch the Qatar flight out of Phnom Penh that heads to Doha via Ho Ch Minh.

No issues with bags or transit time. Plane leaves Phnom Penh around 5pm . 30 minutes to Ho Chi Minh. Stopover around 1 hour.

Interestingly the plane has Latam Airlines markings. New 350 on lease to Qatar.

Two things about that flight out of PP...

- ticket much more expensive than from Bkk
- long lay overs to Europe in Qatar on the flight to Europe

Bad value