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Old Sep 8, 2019, 12:04 am
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knav2013
 
Join Date: Jan 2015
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Originally Posted by plunet
Is there not a fly thru price with AirAsia for this journey? If you can book flythru then a member of AirAsia staff will meet you at DMK as you exit the aircraft and escort you through the transit process. You cannot self transit with AirAsia at DMK and with the connection time you have suggested you would almost certain to fail to make your connection by going airside.
It seems AirAsia's only flythrough option when taking FD 611 (11:45 from Siem Riep) is a flight from DMK at 20:20 arriving at Chiang Rai at 21:45. Wait time of 7 hours 30 minutes at DMK. I assume that's how come the Op's looking at booking separate tickets. Doing that, the only available flight from DMK to Chiang rai (before 20:20) is the 13:55 (FD 3207) arriving in Chiang rai at 15:20.

Presumably the OP needs to arrive in Chiang rai earlier than 21:45, hence, the fly-through options are a no go....Or, the OP feels the wait time of 7 hours 30miutes in DMK is too long.

Looks like Nok air has a daily flight at 17:00 from DMK arriving at CEI at 18:25. Not sure if their timeliness record is comparable to Airasia's. But the cost seems lower and it will shave 3 hours off the journey (compared to booking the 20:20 from DMK with AirAsia).

Last edited by knav2013; Sep 8, 2019 at 12:29 am
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