Best and worst airlines

[tommyg]

dubai airport is good but expensive.a word of warning if you go to irish bar in airport dont pay in £s as they will not give change for notes makeing it £5 a pint.

[mai]

apologies for posting this to wrong forum before..............................

 

How to have the best flight from UK - BKK :

 

1) Always go for the direct flight from London - get the thing over and done with. If ur not in london book a train well in advance.

Use Eva, Thai, BA - in that order of preference. Eva isnt usually that much more than other carriers (at most times during the year).

There may be another direct service.

 

2) Go to sleep (take a strong sleeping pill). So inflight perks, fancy screens, free alcohol, etc mean nothing.

 

3) In my opinion leg room is a bit overhyped. They are pretty much the same*. They are all a lot better than the budget/UK charter flights.

Really, the most important thing is to get lucky and not have a fatty next to you - ideally free seats around you - or even better a row of 4. ahhhh bliss!

There are tricks to get these seats of course.

 

*air asia X and the now defunct oasis hong kong - so called budget airlines - were just as good as etihad for seat room in my experience

before that i travelled around world on ba/qantas and i'd say the above ones were better.

 

I have not flew own thai or eva, but many people say eva is fine.

In fact, out of the 5 times ive done the trip, only once was it direct. But thats because i'm a tight bastard - usually saves me 100 quid though (when you are doing the BKK-UK return - which is not easy to find deals on).

 

Happy flight.