Bob Posted October 18, 2006 Posted October 18, 2006 I arrived yesterday (Tuesday) about 11:30 (AM) on EVA via Taipei. The plane took off about 30 minutes late and that made me a little nervous as to whether I could make the 13.15 flight to Chiangmai. No problem at all, lots of time. I was second in line at immigration, my suitcase arrived about 5 minutes later, and I whipped out through customs - all of this occurring in less than 10 minutes. Faster than I ever experienced at Don Muang. The trek over to domestic is quite a distance - seemed like a couple of kilometers - but it only took about 15 minutes and was fairly easy. Thai Airlines, on the domestic side of things, is at the very far end of the terminal (or at least it seemed to be at the far end - and I'm guessing that it's the east end). The several moving sidewalks going in that direction must qualify for Ripley's given their length. One nice thing about location of the Thai Air domestic departure is that the departure runway is right next door so we lifted off less than 3 minutes from departing the gate. Flight to CNX was uneventful (well, given I slept, how would I know!). One thing that did surprise me is that my suitcase never had to go through any check prior to arriving at the Thai ticket counter (at Don Muang, everything had to go through the machine if I recall right - although maybe my memory is incorrect and you only had to do this for international). Perhaps they shoved it through the machine after I left it there. Based on my experience, I'd give Suvarnabhumi very high marks. The folks at LAX ought to visit and learn how to do things right..... Quote
