Asia Air Passes
Jun 7, 2006, 2:07 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Posts: 165
Asia Air Passes
I will spending about 5 weeks in Asia traveling to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and possibly Myanmar. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good (and cheap) air pass for the region.
Jun 7, 2006, 2:49 pm
#2
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: MOW
Programs: KLM Flying Dutchman forever, bmi Diamond Club (is there a theme here?), LH, BA, EK, DL nobody
Posts: 1,877
All the alliances have an Asia pass or too. And don't forget to check out Bangkok Airways' Discover Asia pass: every international flight (except for Central China) at $90, domestic at $50, and they fly to some cool places, too. The downside is you can only earn miles in their own program
Jun 8, 2006, 7:46 am
#4
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: BKK/ORD
Programs: UA 1P, HH Diamond, *Wood Gold
Posts: 130
Agree with jpatokal
Originally Posted by jpatokal
Forget the air passes, fly LCC -- Air Asia will takes you to all of those except Myanmar. (They don't fly to Laos either, but it's easy enough to fly to Udon Thani and cross the river to Vientiane.)
Another feature of AirAsia - they fly only 737s and A319s - so you'll avoid prop planes.
Thai Airways usually has great one way and sometimes r/t deals to regional destinations but typically they are published only a week or two in advance.
From your post, it appears that Burma is not a priority. Not sure what you want to do there - if Rangoon is what you want - stop reading - if you want a stamp in your passport - you can go to Ranong for 2 days - enjoy the hot springs for a day and the next you can take a ferry over to the Andaman Club Casino Resort - get stamped, gamble, and eat. Just don't forget to get stamped when you come back. My son and I did and were stopped in BKK immigration before departing to US - was held for 15 minutes before it got sorted out.