Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
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Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
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.
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Re: Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
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.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.
You may even find that PG in PNH will check a bag through to Brussels but don't rely on it.
Re: Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
You're better off checking in online and printing the Qatar Airways boarding pass beforehand if you can, because then you won't have to find the Qatar Airways transfer desk, wherever that may be, and which may or may not be staffed. Transfer desks suck.
With boarding pass in hand, you just go through transfer security, after checking the monitors for your gate and determining if you want to go to the East or West transfer.
With boarding pass in hand, you just go through transfer security, after checking the monitors for your gate and determining if you want to go to the East or West transfer.
Re: Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
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.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
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Re: Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
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.
Re: Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
Have a good flight home to Brussels!
Re: Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
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 ...armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 3:11 pmCome 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.
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.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Re: Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
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.
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.
Re: Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
Two things about that flight out of PP...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.
- ticket much more expensive than from Bkk
- long lay overs to Europe in Qatar on the flight to Europe
Bad value
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Re: Transiting in suvarnabhumi airport?
3 years ago I needed to go to the Thai post kiosk in the general public part of the airport outside the secured area during a 4 hour layover.
They waved me through, out and back in, no stamps.
They waved me through, out and back in, no stamps.
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