East Coast US to BKK via The Gulf

[CheshireTom]

I've not read of too many east coast US guys taking advantage of the flights via the Gulf states for their LOS trips. Is it a particularly taboo option? The flight times and fares look pretty good to me plus the aircraft are pretty good as well.

 

 

 

 

[joekicker]

I've not read of too many east coast US guys taking advantage of the flights via the Gulf states for their LOS trips. Is it a particularly taboo option? The flight times and fares look pretty good to me plus the aircraft are pretty good as well.

 

Obviously for the money it's good value, but I think it's also fairly new and not in the front of the brain yet.

 

I've done the flying-east route several times, back in the Pan-Am days and after that, and it's no fun. I think in actual miles it 's not all that different but I always got there totally knackered in a way that flying west never did. I've never done it directly through the Mideast (had some stopover flights there, though), which might be better than stopping in Europe, because it's a much longer leg to start, and shorter to finish??? That part's attractive. That Dubai sked is enticingly like a direct flight to Narita, and then into Bangkok - very similar in-flight leg times actually.

 

Pakistan used to be a fairly popular flight out of New York to Thailand with the main stop in Karachi after Europe, but that was, oh, the 80s.

 

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Edited August 16, 2009 by joekicker