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I note this morning British Airways have ditched Hong Kong for now because flights crew testing positive had to go into state quarantine ! Unsurprisingly BA said fook that for a game of soldiers

Real dearth of airlines flying London Bangkok.....Travel Trolley pre Covid would have page after page in ascending order of price but struggling to fill even one normal page Turkish seem the best bet currently taking into account price, seat pitch, baggage allowance (very generous 30kg) and transit times plus they are part of Star alliance Prices rising as well in economy for sure Did an additional search London to Manila and the prices are beyond eye watering. I actually thought initially I must have clicked business class only

Flown then using Travel Trolley as the agent (as per all the screenshots) No problem whatsover the only thing I thought Bahrain airport was pretty piss poor albeit hardly matters if you're only in transit for couple hours

I've just rerun a set of dates for next year and what is glaringly obvious is airlines have taken the opportunity to remove inclusive luggage completely or heavily reduce existing allowances Not all I will add before someone says mine hasn't but big changes to many

Just raised the topic on Legends group. Could be a game changer providing additional non stop options https://www.nationthailand.com/business/40008744?fbclid=IwAR1mXd0-9L1k1z3RDl8diXoKFEIHmZ5KigfGin0iQAFlRNm7iDBAs14mmUE The booking website is live and I did the month of June to include 20kg bag each way at £387 return Its likely they use their long haul version of their Dreamliner with 34" pitch in Economy and 36" in premium economy.....had a look on seat guru as they do have another version of their Dreamliner with only 31" pitch but am surmising thats short haul only perhaps

Frankly it doesn't matter what version of aircraft you're on its all about the seat pitch if you're in economy (and avoiding those AVOD boxes) Biz I guess as I'm sure you are using seems to offer the biggest style of seat layouts though and I guess pitch isn't an issue Several decent vloggers on youtube (very decent) including Josh Cahill, Noel Phillips and Sam Chui who frequently highlight them. Cahill can be brutal at times with airline reviews

Only ever been on the A380 twice and one of those was upstairs on Qatar in that very small economy section at the back Bangkok Doha in 2016 Was super impressed that day as was my lad who was with me

Whilst May/June have always been the traditionally the cheapest months out of the UK further words are totally superfluous

As before I have no intention of "attempting" to go until February 1st and am hopeful that the preceding 3 months will iron out all the difficulties

Your deliberate baiting of me are the actions of a trolling 7 year old in junior school. You know full well what you're doing fella Off to the ignore box you go. Grow up.

Yes it is overall flight length. I asked Alex Macheras my go to aviation guy on twitter and he's said its the overall length Am assuming (always fatal) that business class is somewhat higher than the £91

Rishi Sunak today..... “I’m introducing, from April 2023, a new ultra long haul band in Air Passenger Duty covering flights of over 5,500 miles, with an economy rate of £91.” I'm not sure what we paying before though ?? So the question is is that overall flight length from A to B or on sector length ??

@jackoI'll just leave this here for you. Your math is as good as mine so I suspect you wont need the + button on a calculator to crunch the numbers.....

I'm just watching Sky and GMB here in the UK and restrictions are clearly on there way back for Brits. Death toll and infections are catastrophic currently Winter coming I can see another lockdown coming

I genuinely dont think they will. They're desperate for customers and why would they alienate long standing passengers many who will hold FF status by jacking up fares Same for some thinking booze and bar fines prices will rise in Pattaya. Competition will dictate otherwise

I cant screenshot is so easily now Via Travel Trolley because they've changed their presentation style but I re ran London Bangkok but changed the dates to May 2022 for 1 month 3 cheapest in Singapore Turkish and Gulf all with standard connection are sub £400 Theres no real indication I can see that prices are rising

Virtually all the flight prices (albeit not all) on that flight thread has baggage included I'll run it again

Yes but thats not airline related Jacko per se (albeit they'll doubtless have to collect it)

So tell me why the prices on the Nov 1st to 30th November London Bangkok thread have been virtually unchanged since the first time I did it way back earlier in 2021 If anything there is way less competition because fewer airlines are flying yet prices remain static When they ALL start flying again I'd expect even cheaper prices than what we're seeing now

Anything from "Micheal Learns to Rock" of which every Pattaya visitor will know the tracks this last 30 years from the bars without perhaps knowing who the group actually was.......

Nice little offering from Gulf Air for a 1 month stay next March....Reasonable transits and nicely priced most would agree. Been some good reports on Gulfs latest product in economy and business I flew them for a 2nd time must have been 4 years ago or so and was pleasantly surprised compared to first trip way back in 2002

Did you actually read the first two lines ??

I think the real problems will come probably next year when borders may open again with restrictions and immigration are then presented with a myriad of vaccination proof in a 100 different languages I've got 2 "cards" with dates of vaccination etc but I dont remotely expect that to be sufficient

Theres a good series on Changi airport. I'm not sure which network aired the series originally but it came up as random suggestion on Youtube If I link in one you can find the rest from it. Great series really enjoyed it

I've just run the original dates again and included ALL London airports but I needn't have bothered as all the cheapest are Heathrow anyway and damn good carriers as well......all good connections Seems to be some optimism that in November tourists may well be allowed in if double jabbed and tested again For the benefit of @Gottsyand Singapore I've included top six in screenshot... All under £420 desperate for business. I like that Swiss at the top and have never flown them either would be interested in that one for sure as well as Singapore