Tools for checking flight prices

20122013

I am looking to travel to Suvarnabhumi airport (from London or any UK airport) in February.

As I am not a frequent flyer and first trip to Thailand.

What tools is good to use when checking out flight prices etc? As I am looking to book direct with an airline and I have read that EVA, next is Thai and Ethiad, maybe Cathy? 

Ayr_Rage

Thai and Eva are the only two direct at the moment I believe.

I've never used either but friends who travel from the London area prefer EVA.

There are numerous other options with one stop, Emirates, Qatar, Etihad, Turkish would be some I would consider.

There is also Air India for the brave, Cathay means you go past Thailand and then fly SW again from HK and the KLM/Air France group.

I fly Emirates from Glasgow, A380 on both legs.

Edit : Google Flights is a good place to start.

If booking via a third party make sure you check ticket conditions, some of the cheapest are hand baggage only.

eskbanker

I'd never heard of Suvarnabhumi so looked it up out of curiosity and see that it's just the name of Bangkok's airport, so it would have been clearer to have just referred to travelling to Bangkok!

Ayr_Rage

eskbanker said:

I'd never heard of Suvarnabhumi so looked it up out of curiosity and see that it's just the name of Bangkok's airport, so it would have been clearer to have just referred to travelling to Bangkok!

Now Google how to pronounce it and you'll be scratching your head!

eskbanker

Ayr_Rage said:

eskbanker said:

I'd never heard of Suvarnabhumi so looked it up out of curiosity and see that it's just the name of Bangkok's airport, so it would have been clearer to have just referred to travelling to Bangkok!

Now Google how to pronounce it and you'll be scratching your head!

Will pour myself a dram of Bunnahabhain before contemplating that!

fifeken

Ayr_Rage said:

Thai and Eva are the only two direct at the moment I believe.

Plus Norse and BA from Gatwick, and Norse again from Manchester.  No comment on their (Norse) reliability.

20122013

eskbanker said:

I'd never heard of Suvarnabhumi so looked it up out of curiosity and see that it's just the name of 

Bangkok's airport, so it would have been clearer to have just referred to travelling to Bangkok!

Your post are always helpful. In reply to your post: 

la531983

20122013 said:

eskbanker said:

I'd never heard of Suvarnabhumi so looked it up out of curiosity and see that it's just the name of 

Bangkok's airport, so it would have been clearer to have just referred to travelling to Bangkok!

Your post are always helpful. In reply to your post: 

Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but Eskbanker has a point.

If I started a thread on here saying I was looking for flights to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, not many would likely know where I meant without looking it up.

20122013

la531983 said:

20122013 said:

eskbanker said:

I'd never heard of Suvarnabhumi so looked it up out of curiosity and see that it's just the name of 

Bangkok's airport, so it would have been clearer to have just referred to travelling to Bangkok!

Your post are always helpful. In reply to your post: 

Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but Eskbanker has a point.

If I started a thread on here saying I was looking for flights to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, not many would likely know where I meant without looking it up.

Eskbanker's post have always been very helpful to me, regardless of that, I was not being sarcastic. I added the image so others can see and not to book the wrong airport as I nearly did.

Emmia

eskbanker said:

Ayr_Rage said:

eskbanker said:

I'd never heard of Suvarnabhumi so looked it up out of curiosity and see that it's just the name of Bangkok's airport, so it would have been clearer to have just referred to travelling to Bangkok!

Now Google how to pronounce it and you'll be scratching your head!

Will pour myself a dram of Bunnahabhain before contemplating that!

A good choice!

SiliconChip

20122013 said:

la531983 said:

20122013 said:

eskbanker said:

I'd never heard of Suvarnabhumi so looked it up out of curiosity and see that it's just the name of 

Bangkok's airport, so it would have been clearer to have just referred to travelling to Bangkok!

Your post are always helpful. In reply to your post: 

Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but Eskbanker has a point.

If I started a thread on here saying I was looking for flights to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, not many would likely know where I meant without looking it up.

Eskbanker's post have always been very helpful to me, regardless of that, I was not being sarcastic. I added the image so others can see and not to book the wrong airport as I nearly did.

Are there any long haul flights to Don Muaeang any more? If there are, and any of them are from the UK, you shouldn't dismiss them out of hand, I took a flight to Chiang Mai from DMK in 2009 and I don't recall any issues getting to the airport from central Bangkok (it was actually trickier getting to BKK) and as it's a smaller airport it's easier to make your way around it.