whcouncill Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 For those who live in the Southeast US how do you get to BKK? All of my Tennesee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South and North Carolina folks. What is a popular route you take? Do you fly to LA or NY? Chicago? Atlanta? The closest int'l airport to me would be Atlanta I guess but if you live near another hub I'd like to hear what you have to say. Some person was tellin me that finding a flight from say Atlanta or Charlotte to the UK then finding a flight to BKK might be worth looking into. Any of you all ever fly thru Europe to get to BKK? I am going to ask the East Coast cats that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
was_usvirgin Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Amadeus.net Do a flight search. Sort by "elapsed time" and you'll get an unbiased display as to which way's fastest. You'll get pages of flights via the Pacific, mainly via JFK or ORD. Also Korean Air from ATL with a connection in Seoul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooNoi Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Try this website. It should help you. TG has 2 - sometimes 3 - connections out of London to Bangkok now. Finnair has 2 flights per day Helsinki to BKK, and Lufthansa has 2 or 3 flights per day from Germany too, so connection times going via Europe aren't as bad as they used to be in the past. You could also fly Emirates from JFK to Dubai and connect through to BKK. Dohop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 For more than a year the TG flight Copenhagen - BKK as a codeshare with Air Canada, so I suppose they flew canadians to BKK via denmark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldFun Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 there's direct flights jfk-bkk isn't there these days with TG or via SG with SQ? 16hours or so I reckon??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJ_Blackowitz Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 also direct AUA codesharing with THAI VIE - BKK leaves 23:30 arrives 15:something EMIRATES Leaving DUBAI 3am arriving 12 Noon BKK other flight ETA 5 hours later BKK SWISS (zurich) KLM (AMS) LUFTHANSA (FRA) all these are flewn direct from Atlanta. enough choices I Once flew Biman Bangladesh. ( 6 stops between AMS and BKK, one transit in Bangladesh.. (A HORROR)came in from JFK. next stop was rome after AMS.. be creative... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Haven't done from BKK, but have flown to Atlanta from HK, KL, and Singapore many times. HK was Chicago (non-stop, long flight) to Atlanta, Singapore/KL was Narita to either Detroit or Minneapolis on to Atlanta. Did do the other way around with BA once, but had to not only change planes in London, but had to change airports. Every time was over 30 hourâ??s total time. It is a hassle getting to Atlanta as it is almost exactly half way around the world. The new JFK-BKK non-stop might be worth looking at. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evel_Penivel Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 If hours from point A to point B is your only consideration, then a non-stop flight Atlanta to JFK and the Thai non-stop JFK-BKK would be quickest. About 19.5 hours in the air and a 2-hour stopover at JFK before the TG flight to BKK. You take off from Atlanta at 8.30 a.m. and 21.5 hours later you land in BKK. There are dozens of combinations that will get you to BKK from Atlanta in 26 to 30 hours, some probably cheaper than the TG nonstop. It depends on how much you value the extra hours you save by flying the non-stop JFK-BKK-JFK. There is a non-stop Atlanta to Seoul flight of about 15.5 hours, but with the time it takes to change planes at Inchon and fly to BKK, it still works out to about a 24-hour journey. Going via Europe will be a much longer journey, but not more time in the air. It is the arrival and departure times that don't mesh. About 10 to 12 hours on the ground between arriving at a European airport and take-off to BKK. Evel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 The easiest - NWA, UAL. The quickest - fly to JFK and take the TG nonstop. The cheapest - fly to LAX and take China Air or EVA Best value - EVA Deluxe class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgm005 Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Eva Air through LAX. Am here in ATL and use Economy Deluxe all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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