Bangkok Airways 952, Samui (USM) to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (BKK)

February 8th, 2018
10:25 am–11:40 am
Airbus A319 HS-PPF
Seats 7E/F (aisle/window, economy class)

After way too long watching all of the codeshare flight numbers scroll past mismatched to their logos, the last group (“Group 1”) was ready to head to the buses.



After a short, fun ride, we arrived at the plane.





Unlike the plane we had been on coming in from Bangkok, this one had newer slimline seats with a bit more knee space. I was certainly not uncomfortable.



One last view of the town of Chaweng on takeoff.



Sure enough, the hot meal commenced eight minutes in to the 50-minute flight. It was described as “chicken with rice noodles”, and boy, was it ever edible.




But really, kudos for putting in the effort at all. Meal service on a sub-one-hour flight and perfectly nice staff throughout the whole experience left me not complaining.

A few minutes later, we landed back at Suvarnabhumi, where taxiing all the way around the airport meant I could finally see some interesting planes.

British Airways 772.



Thai Airways A380 HS-TUE, on which the greatest flight of my life to this point took place.



Myanmar National Airlines 737-800 (a new one for me!)



After making it to the remote stand and boarding the bus, we got the grand tour of the tarmac to get to domestic arrivals, whence we waited almost half an hour for our bags.



The review

Same as before, we didn’t have a choice whether or not to take this flight. And it was fine. Nice, even.

That said, I don’t see any reason to fly this airline if you could choose another and either save money or redeem miles.