Longest Bus Rides
Nov 21, 2017, 1:05 am
#18
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I can understand a bus being necessary for incoming if all gates are full, but I don't see that often. And for out-going there's invariably a frigging free spot for a plane right beside the gate where the passengers are waiting - there just ain't a TG plane there (or any other plane) !
Nov 21, 2017, 1:12 am
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TG does this often in cases where the incoming plane would come to international, but is scheduled to service domestic flight next... It's easier for them to bus incoming people and then pull the plane to domestic gate than to dock at international and then move it to domestic... And most probably double gate charges...
Nov 24, 2017, 3:08 pm
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TG does this often in cases where the incoming plane would come to international, but is scheduled to service domestic flight next... It's easier for them to bus incoming people and then pull the plane to domestic gate than to dock at international and then move it to domestic... And most probably double gate charges...
Having been on Int flights arriving/departing domestic gates and domestic flights arriving/departing international gates I've never noticed a plane moved via tug between the two. Of all the busing options, these are by far the worst because they require using the jetbridge stairs which are not covered so pax are exposed to heat, rain, or anything else the sky wants to throw at you.
Nov 24, 2017, 5:31 pm
#21
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Having been on Int flights arriving/departing domestic gates and domestic flights arriving/departing international gates I've never noticed a plane moved via tug between the two. Of all the busing options, these are by far the worst because they require using the jetbridge stairs which are not covered so pax are exposed to heat, rain, or anything else the sky wants to throw at you.
Dec 2, 2017, 3:57 pm
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For three days in a row last week (seems fixed now) they bussed pax for the BKK-MEL flight from E3... all the way back to the A gates where the plane was parked. The bus ride was fine, except for lots of waiting around, outside, for the bus to arrive. But what was really annoying was the walk from security all the way to E3 (850m according to the signs) only to be bussed all the way back again. ALL the D gates were unoccupied (we walked past them) and could have been used instead, even for boarding the bus.
Sometimes there seems to be a complete lack of thought.
Dec 5, 2017, 1:55 am
#23
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For three days in a row last week (seems fixed now) they bussed pax for the BKK-MEL flight from E3... all the way back to the A gates where the plane was parked.The bus ride was fine, except for lots of waiting around, outside, for the bus to arrive. But what was really annoying was the walk from security all the way to E3 (850m according to the signs) only to be bussed all the way back again. ALL the D gates were unoccupied (we walked past them) and could have been used instead, even for boarding the bus.
Sometimes there seems to be a complete lack of thought.
the A350 used for midnight flight often is used for evening flight to Chiang Mai or Phuket and therefore at a domestic gate
Dec 5, 2017, 2:03 am
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Midnight, so the domestic explains it... sort of. Why not tow it to a gate... or... why not have a boarding gate much closer to immigration and security? Crazy long walk to E3 to be taken back to A gates again. (Maybe for economy not so far to walk as premium?)
Dec 5, 2017, 2:39 am
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Midnight, so the domestic explains it... sort of. Why not tow it to a gate... or... why not have a boarding gate much closer to immigration and security? Crazy long walk to E3 to be taken back to A gates again. (Maybe for economy not so far to walk as premium?)
Oct 15, 2018, 3:19 am
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Arrived on TG410 from SIN the other night, to a bus gate 401 & as if that’s not bad enough they forgot to send busses, full 20 minute wait with much shouting over walkitalkies before they finally turned up & then they were letting Y pax on before J
Slow inflight service on a clapped out 777, really for the Flag carrier at BKK TG are poor
Slow inflight service on a clapped out 777, really for the Flag carrier at BKK TG are poor