Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport in a nutshell
Thailand's largest airport was only opened in 2006 and is located 25 km east of Bangkok and is home to Thai Airways and Bangkok Airways.
Suvarnabhumi is one of the largest airports in the world and in addition to being the gateway to Thailand, it very often serves as a transfer airport further afield to Asia or Australia.
The cheapest flights to/from Bangkok around the Southeast Asia region can be purchased with VietJetAir or Air Asia, which fly from a smaller airport Don Mueang DMK.
Flights from other continents are most commonly purchased from qatarairways.com, emirates.com or sinagporeair.com.
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Hi again, I can see now that I arrive in Bangkok, transfer to Krabi. We have a one hour 30 min. Transfer time, but we transfer from Thai to Bangkok Airlines. Is this enough time?
Hi, yes. As long as your flights are purchased as one booking, it doesn't matter which airline you continue with.
We arrive in Bangkok with Thai Airlines and have a 1 hour 15 minute wait before flying to Krabi. The whole trip is booked with Thai. We will have luggage. Is this acceptable?
Yes, it's acceptable. 1:15 is the minimum connection time for these transfers.
Hi, check out my comment on Thai Airways regarding the change in Bangkok.
Hello, in February we are flying Prague-Doha-BKK-Koh Samui for the first time. All on one ticket with checked baggage. I'm a bit scared of getting lost in BKK, so I'm checking on a connection. We are supposed to be in BKK at 1:05pm and have 2:45hrs to change planes. I know to follow the transfer sign, then the transfer sign Krabi, Samui, etc... and it directs me to immigration, we go through there, then I just look for the sign for our gate? My concern is that I don't go anywhere outside the transfer zone after checking 🙈 thank you so much for the confirmation 😌
Hello, you describe it exactly :) Just follow the signs for "Transfer to Phuket, Krabi, Koh Samui" etc and don't follow the signs for "Immigration".
That's assuming that your baggage will be checked in at Koh Samui, which you'll find out in Prague (but that's usually the case with the Qatar Airways + Bangkok Airways collaboration).
Thank you very much, so just follow the transfer to Phuket, Krabi etc and it will take us there and through immigration. Good to know, I'd definitely follow the Immigration sign so I'd get lost. Thank you so much!!! 🙏🙏
There is a problem with drug controls in BKK.
They randomly pick passengers at immigration control who are suspicious and then they have to undergo an additional body cavity search, which is very delaying for a short layover, not to mention the fact that it's quite a problem to sit on your ass on the next flight...