YYZ-BKK what your preferred route
Dec 5, 2013, 2:05 pm
#16
Join Date: Feb 2012
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You're right, but there is J availability YYZ-TPE on May 6. Which means you'd arrive in BKK by 10:30 am on May 7, only a few hours later than a TATL departure on May 5.
Dec 5, 2013, 2:20 pm
#18
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Dec 5, 2013, 3:10 pm
#19
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I would suggest TK YYZ-IST-BKK if you are able to do that. I'm doing that next month. Had to fly the return IST-YYZ on AC, which resulted in YQ but it wasn't that bad, and if you can snag the whole thing on TK there isn't any surcharge (unless that changed since I made my booking) and is flat bed all the way.
Dec 5, 2013, 6:56 pm
#20
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Dec 5, 2013, 7:13 pm
#21
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Seats are good, especially if there are two people. They go all the way flat.
I have no complaints about the 6 CA flights I took this year (2Y/3J/1F).
Make sure that from PEK to BKK you get the 772 or the A330. Avoid the 737!
On board, CA beats AC without question, and on top of that, you dont line AC's pockets with reward YQ.
Great selection of tea, you get PJs for the long flight too
I have no complaints about the 6 CA flights I took this year (2Y/3J/1F).
Make sure that from PEK to BKK you get the 772 or the A330. Avoid the 737!
On board, CA beats AC without question, and on top of that, you dont line AC's pockets with reward YQ.
Great selection of tea, you get PJs for the long flight too
Dec 6, 2013, 9:33 am
#22
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Dec 6, 2013, 10:31 am
#24
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Toronto, ON
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Yes and no, Air Canada has a scam running that they charge you YQ for the entire journey, not just for scamchargeable segments. But in the case of YYZ-Europe-BKK, it actually works against them. Because YYZ-Europe (and Europe-BKK) YQ is more than YYZ-BKK.
It is about $230 each way for YYZ-Europe-BKK on AC/TG, compare that with ~$500 each way for just YYZ-Europe on AC.
It is about $230 each way for YYZ-Europe-BKK on AC/TG, compare that with ~$500 each way for just YYZ-Europe on AC.
YYZ-LHR-BKK on AC/TG has a YQ of $465.
Dec 6, 2013, 11:08 am
#25
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Apologies then, looks like the loophole out of the scam is not always applied, and the scamcharge is random