Originally Posted by
ung1
Now about the flights - actually decided to go to the FS Chiang Mai to start off the trip, and there is a direct flight with PG CNX-USM, but it costs a bomb! They are only selling full fare Y - so hoping the price goes down closer to the date when they open up lower booking classes. Weirdly (or not) the opposite route is a third the price. No business class on that one, though.
PG has a monopoly at USM (they actually own the airport) and they fully exploit it. You might see how it prices on an OTA such as Expedia.
Originally Posted by
ung1
Considering though whether to fly TG J up to CNX instead of PG Y - a little worried as we will fly straight there on arrival in BKK, and I've heard immigration is time consuming these days because they've started capturing biometrics.
If arriving BKK in J, you'll get fastrack and that's still not too bad, despite the biometric nonsense. Nonetheless, if you are connecting straight through, there are definitely advantages to flying same carrier. You would be marked as CIQ and go through immigration at CNX rather than BKK. Also, PG in Y is not your best experience, the seats are very close together and some of the cabins are pretty beat up.