Originally Posted by
BinSabai
yes some of the TG flights from Europe fly to HKT first, unload the guests with Phuket as final destination while everybody else has to stay on board; for sure no new guests will join. Usually they do not need to stay the full 1.5 hours as scheduled in HKT so that a early arrival of around an hour in BKK is usual...
Went exactly as you described. Landed early in HKT, most of the plane got off, no new passengers came on board.
Interesting, there was a pretty large cleaning crew that came on to service the cabin. Would have thought they would wait until it was back at BKK for that.
And yes, we were about an hour early into BKK. Busier then last time. A brief wait in the blue chairs as the doc check was conducted. Immigration line 1 deep, and waiting on checked bags was still the bottle neck. Seems that baggage delivery has actually slowed down compared to pre-covid, but maybe just a perception or I got unlucky the past couple trips.