Originally Posted by Michael
It may be stupid, but it may also be required if you're heading to a destination that doesn't have immigration and customs facilities.
While there's no problem to check your luggage through to HKT or CNX, there are other destinations in Thailand that lack customs and immigration facilities, and so travelers to those destinations will have to go through immigration and customs in BKK, and then go over to the domestic terminal.
- Michael
NOPE,
in Thailand all airports have an immigration ! Even the small Koh Samui, Surat Thani or Chiang Rai ! ( At least all which are served from BKK ) . As far as I know the only having no imigration is far north west Mae Sot, and this is only served from Chiang Mai
Morrissey
Originally Posted by Morrissey
Originally Posted by Steve Fenton
Frankly speaking its a load of B******X what is the purpose of standing around for aes to take your luggage off the belt and hump it 20 yards to give it to a guy to sling it back down a chute to put back onto another plane - yeah that makes loads of sense.
WELCOME TO AMERICA
Is there a reason that you can't respond like a mature adult?
Are you really thinking this through, or are you just trying to be obnoxious? We are talking about clearing immigration and customs here. American airports are simply not designed this way, nor should they be. How would you possibly do this? It would require that every single airport terminal in the country have immigration and customs facilities. Every single person who gets off a domestic flight would have to checked to see whether he/she had cleared immigration previously or not. Yeah, THAT sounds like a great idea!
In Thailand it is possible that one enters the Kingdom without immigration.
If you are coming from an international lets say transit to Phuket , and you leave the Hall in Phuket to the right you enter Thailand without immigration ( You get a sticker which you have to wear).
But you will have a problem when you try to leave the Kingdom. Because if you dont have a stamp coming in, you are illegal ( and for this in Thailand you can go into prison ). I heard of some who managed it also to leave the kingdom in the same way. They took a flight from Phuket to Bangkok which is as well a international conection may be to HKG and only a domestik.
In Phuket they checked in domestik, so the passport/visa is not controlled. Then they put the sticker on their clothes in the plane. and in BKK they take the bus to the international building, now they are airside. There they go to the transferdesk and check in for their international flight which must be on a seperate PNR. The only hint is, the immigration normaly clips one part of the form together with the international boarding pass, which the airline collect.
And shure this does not work with checked luggage.
But the men I know, who did it this way just wanted to stay 8 month there without every 30days leaving or paying an expensive 1 year visa.
not my idea
and this is absolutly illegal
just want explain what is possible and not.