London to Bangkok Now with Thai Airways TG917 🇹🇭: REVIEW. Plus a Surprise at Bangkok Immigration 

I was in Bangkok in March. Now I’m here in BKK again in August. Just checking in for my flight back to Melbourne tomorrow on Thai Airways economy red eye. I’m actually quite dreading it. I know I’ll spend a week in bed with a cold getting over it. I found the experience coming up here (9:30 hours flight) rather tedious. I’m getting too old for this! I tried to upgrade my seat using points and pay BUT unfortunately I booked with ons of those online apps, where you pay MORE to be able to make changes etc… so I got the basic ticket in which NO CHANGES or upgrades can be done. So beware travellers. Book with Thai Airways direct. Flying Thai Airways up here too Bangkok was CERTAINLY a better experience than flying from Singapore to MEL with Qantas last time……….( One meal service only and a hot pastry handed out thank you Qantas - really wonderful experience….. 😢)

It seems you made good time considering you had a 2 hour delay, usually land around 4pm but you still had daylight so must have landed by 6pm ish ? i book suvarrnabhumi suites hotel at lat krabang for my arival, its only 10 minutes from airport, unwind on the rooftop restaurant and start afresh next morning after breakfast,. I stop there on my return flight to, breakfast in morning and 10 minutes back to airport around 10am to catch the 1pm flight home, i suspect your quick exit through immigration was due to you being out of sinc of your propper arrival time,.ive been through in 10/20 mins a few times, did you use the thai passport holders desk or the 70 y/o priority desk method ? ,.cheers

Hi Sir, great video ! I am from the UK & I have a question, just what exactly is the checked baggage limit for Thai Airways ? Because I keep seeing conflicting info online - some say the limit is 23kg, while others say its actually 30kg ? Could you please confirm ? Regards.

Hello sir , we are going to Italy soon from Australia and Thai airways is the cheapest option, we usually fly Qatar or SIA . Just a bit worried about the 787-9 comfort for such a long flight. Thanks

Definately up to your usual standard Mr Swinn. Thoroughly enjoyed the presentation. Looking forward to the followup. 🎉😊🎉

Dreadful tired old planes , don’t use em anymore used to be ok years ago , not now .

Excellent production, thank you. I'm a huge fan of Thai Airlines AND EVA, their respective LHR to BKK routes are always a very pleasing experience - direct flights, are the only way to go.

Flew London to Bangkok with Thai back in February and was not impressed. They used to be really good but since the pandemic their service has deteriorated considerably. Food was really slow in coming and the choice somewhat basic. They also ran out of chicken curry on the return flight and offered only fish as an alternative, which I don't eat. To crown it all we had to wait an over an hour at baggage reclaim for our luggage at Heathrow, everyone was complaining about it. I am not flying with them again until their standards are back to what they once were. I have heard that Eva now offer a much better service than Thai.

Wow! That landing was so smooth🤩

What time of month was that when you flew? Also was there not any good upgrades available?

Can anyone recommend a window seat on the thai airways a350 ? I wanna see something on the ground not only the wing the whole time haha. Empty seats are from row 34 to 45. Maybe something in the end of the wing? I assume your seat was row 48? which is non reclineable

Flew to Bangers in November 2023 for £960 & this March for £840, better seats in November & was able to choose at time of booking, couldn't do that for the March flight. BA have just put Bangers back on route schedule, 3 times a week out of Gatwick, just booked for November £702.00, but if you want to choose aseat, you have to pay extra. Let's see if it's as good as Thai Airways.

Being a Manchester man, I'm limited for choice when it comes to flying to Bangkok as I much prefer getting the main slog to Asia out of the way, am a bit fed up with spending hours getting ripped off in middle eastern airports so the only decent options for me in October were Singapore Airlines who are now ludicrously expensive (£1200) economy from Man to BKK, so in the end as I'll be working in Bangkok I decided to go direct with Thai Airways in business class which means hotels and flights between Man and LHR all in £3300 with minimal faff and hopefully a good few hours in the lounge at Heathrow before being pampered on the plane, hopefully will be worth every penny, especially with the fast tracking elements.

i love this, i really enjoy watching your videos! keep up the good work :)

Do they still use the OLD B777 for LON to BKK?? I hope not. They use the A350 to MEL which is nice and clean and new

Hello, great video showing thai airways! I just wanted to ask is the song that started playing in the descend around 5:50 edited or is it actually playing on the plane? What is the song name by the way?😅

I did notice that Thai still has 3 3 3 seating configuration which after suffering EVA economy with the extra seat now thrown in will be the deciding factor for me with my next booking. Thanks for uploading

my son lives Bangkok we travel most years but not since covid, but I hope this coming few months will take us there. Lovely flight you had, I have travelled Thai airways had a great time x

EVA air is best for direct flight. If you prefer 1 stop, go Qatar Airways

Hello sir i love these travel vlogs,i fly with Emirates and have never flown direct because i fly from Birmingham,great content from you...New Sub.

All companies seem to care now are profits & their shareholders....not so much their customers.

Thank you for the review. Currently thinking which airline we take if we go.

They did the same bs excuse with the turbulents when serving dinner and every other meal! Are they short staffing planes???

£850 isn't bad at all. I paid £1005 in September '22 to fly at Xmas the same year with Thai airways . I then got a price in early May to fly on 15th ( out of season) and they quoted £1040!! So I flew with Qatar for £631, 16hrs but the saving paid for 80% of my months accommodation. Result!

Significantly over the time threshold at Heathrow, nice!

I prefer EVA AIr

Great video, which seat was yours?

Very lucky !

rather you did it from another airport as the extra 24£ added for going into london Manchester doesnt have that and is also an easier airport to navigate.

A very soothing voice sir. Take care and thank you for your show .