yoshiwara

have used china airlines, very good and cheap, but the sheer flexibility of thai air and cathay choice of flight times is the way to go if you can afford it...you can book online and reserve your seat from the seating plan from these two.

...of course not...100% likelihood that the aircraft will be full, the seat next to you occupied by an overflowing lump and the seat infront fully reclined to give you that 45 degree sense of well-being while being eye-balled by that bloody curtain up front blocking the way to relative civilization.....don't worry about the taxi, there's never ever a shortage......