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blogs > andrew > travel > thailand > long-flight-long-airport
Fri, 13 Jul 2007
Long flight, long airport
For some ungodly reason it was hard to find flights this week, so I travelled on Thai Airways a few days ago. They’re Star Alliance (good), but their in-flight amenities leave something to be desired (bad). I mean, they’re nice and all, but they have no personal video systems individual to each seat, and that makes them barbaric next to Singapore Airlines; giving the ladies an orchid just before landing as a present doesn’t really make up for it.
Worse there was no in-seat AC power, so after my laptop ran dry I had little to do and only a stupid movie to observe off in the distance; by some cruel twist of fate I had neglected to bring a novel with me and so was reduced to reading the duty-free catalogue for entertainment. Torture.
Bangkok’s new airport
Into Bangkok. My first time in their new airport. It is huge. Naively I thought that leaving the lounge 35 minutes before my connecting flight would be overkill. Instead, yikes! I conservatively estimate that I walked at least 1.5 kilometers from the lounge (somewhere on G where I arrived) to where my gate was (at the very tip of C). And I was not dawdling! Brutal. Only way I made it on time was because it was 01:00 and there were was no lineup at the checkpoint.
It’s unreal how big the place is. Searching around a bit came up with this photo dating from when it was being constructed:
Seeing the internal structure and the distance it encompasses is really something. So be warned! On the other hand, the entire D stretch is one monster duty free mall. Probably some good shopping to be had if you had a day or so between flights.
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