BA INCEU60 AMS BKK checked baggage queries
Apr 10, 2018, 3:22 am
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I've flown the CX712 quite a few times to BKK over the last 3-4 years. I have heard announcements that all passengers (and their belongings) are to disembark (sometimes there is a change of crew) and there is an agent waiting at the end of the jetty for those passengers who are to continue to HKG. I don't recall if this happens on all flights. Even so there is no doubt you will be able to make the continuation of the flight, provided BA (or CX at SIN) will through-check your checked luggage.
Apr 10, 2018, 4:15 am
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I've flown the CX712 quite a few times to BKK over the last 3-4 years. I have heard announcements that all passengers (and their belongings) are to disembark (sometimes there is a change of crew) and there is an agent waiting at the end of the jetty for those passengers who are to continue to HKG. I don't recall if this happens on all flights. Even so there is no doubt you will be able to make the continuation of the flight, provided BA (or CX at SIN) will through-check your checked luggage.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...n-bkk-hkg.html
Apr 10, 2018, 4:27 am
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Yes, but it was only two weeks ago when I last heard the announcement that everyone needs to disembark with their luggage. As I said, it doesn't happen every time, perhaps only when there is a change of crew. I am regularly in SIN and often hop across to Bangkok to visit family, I must have flown probably about a dozen of these flights in the last 12 months, but I have heard the announcement at least twice in that last 12 months, the last being just a couple of weeks ago.
Tobias-UK - thank you for your comments, however (as I alluded to in post 15 above) the thread below appears to suggest CX712 SIN HKG passengers remain on board the aircraft at BKK.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...n-bkk-hkg.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...n-bkk-hkg.html
Apr 10, 2018, 4:43 am
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Tobias-UK - thank you. Your experience is obviously far more recent.
Actually, as I am currently between jobs - as a consequence, all the flying my family and I currently undertake is self-paid leisure travel - the potential additional 40TPs to be earned by breaking the journey in BKK might be more significant than would ordinarily be the case to ensure BAEC Gold re-qualification.
Actually, as I am currently between jobs - as a consequence, all the flying my family and I currently undertake is self-paid leisure travel - the potential additional 40TPs to be earned by breaking the journey in BKK might be more significant than would ordinarily be the case to ensure BAEC Gold re-qualification.
Apr 10, 2018, 5:11 am
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Tobias-UK - thank you. Your experience is obviously far more recent.
Actually, as I am currently ‘between jobs’ - as a consequence, all the flying my family and I currently undertake is self-paid leisure travel - the potential additional 40TPs to be earned by breaking the journey in BKK might be more significant than would ordinarily be the case to ensure BAEC Gold re-qualification.
Actually, as I am currently ‘between jobs’ - as a consequence, all the flying my family and I currently undertake is self-paid leisure travel - the potential additional 40TPs to be earned by breaking the journey in BKK might be more significant than would ordinarily be the case to ensure BAEC Gold re-qualification.
Apr 10, 2018, 5:27 am
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I could post my own Bangkok experiences from my days as a single man, but that would probably get me into trouble.
Apr 10, 2018, 5:41 am
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Apr 21, 2018, 4:29 am
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Just wondering if anyone has actually managed to get this ticketed?
I changed a booking to include the CX SIN-BKK-HKG flight, as two separate legs with a 1 hour stop. Agent was happy to do it and said the 1 hour is no problem as it's the same aircraft, and made the new reservation for me. But I don't have a ticket number now...
This might be a standard queue delay in BA ticketing - but I'm just wondering if it's fallen over because this might be a connection that falls foul of MCT? Has anyone else managed?
I changed a booking to include the CX SIN-BKK-HKG flight, as two separate legs with a 1 hour stop. Agent was happy to do it and said the 1 hour is no problem as it's the same aircraft, and made the new reservation for me. But I don't have a ticket number now...
This might be a standard queue delay in BA ticketing - but I'm just wondering if it's fallen over because this might be a connection that falls foul of MCT? Has anyone else managed?
Apr 21, 2018, 9:58 am
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That said, I'm currently in Dubai about to watch Spurs get thrashed, while the missus is in York.
Apr 21, 2018, 2:40 pm
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Just wondering if anyone has actually managed to get this ticketed?
I changed a booking to include the CX SIN-BKK-HKG flight, as two separate legs with a 1 hour stop. Agent was happy to do it and said the 1 hour is no problem as it's the same aircraft, and made the new reservation for me. But I don't have a ticket number now...
This might be a standard queue delay in BA ticketing - but I'm just wondering if it's fallen over because this might be a connection that falls foul of MCT? Has anyone else managed?
I changed a booking to include the CX SIN-BKK-HKG flight, as two separate legs with a 1 hour stop. Agent was happy to do it and said the 1 hour is no problem as it's the same aircraft, and made the new reservation for me. But I don't have a ticket number now...
This might be a standard queue delay in BA ticketing - but I'm just wondering if it's fallen over because this might be a connection that falls foul of MCT? Has anyone else managed?
Apr 21, 2018, 2:48 pm
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Therefore one assumes this is not treated as a connection and not subject to MCT limits, and instead treated as one flight with a stop in BKK. I note CX offers CX712 as a option for SIN-HKG on their own website.
Apr 21, 2018, 3:11 pm
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Based on that reasoning it would be impossible to ever book the CX712 through flight SIN-BKK-HKG. This is clearly not the case as others have noted on the thread.
Therefore one assumes this is not treated as a connection and not subject to MCT limits, and instead treated as one flight with a stop in BKK. I note CX offers CX712 as a option for SIN-HKG on their own website.
Therefore one assumes this is not treated as a connection and not subject to MCT limits, and instead treated as one flight with a stop in BKK. I note CX offers CX712 as a option for SIN-HKG on their own website.
It would indeed offer SIN-HKG as a single ticketed sector , but does it offer SIN-BKK and then BKK-HKG as 2 sectors on its website?
Apr 21, 2018, 3:15 pm
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The fact BKK is your nominal destination is completely irrelevant. It is one flight. You are not booking it as two sectors.
Apr 21, 2018, 3:16 pm
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You are missing the point. It is not treated as a connection just as many other flights around the world which have a stop along route where time on the ground may be less than MCT. You are not connecting from one flight to another.
The fact BKK is your nominal destination is completely irrelevant.
The fact BKK is your nominal destination is completely irrelevant.
If booked as a single sector then there is no issue at all
In many cases it would not be an issue since the stop will exceed the MCT requirements
Apr 21, 2018, 3:18 pm
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You are not booking it as two sectors.