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14 hours ago, elgenon said:

Thanks. Sounds good. There are shorter flights and, as i get older, I lean that way. But would like to check out Qatar. Are the planes and the service and food good?

Yes, the planes were quite new in fact. And the food was fairly decent as well (which surprised me....it was much better than I had anticipated). Service was fine, too. Only complaint would be the baggage thing, but that's probably my own fault for not reading the limitations beforehand (and as I stated before, we had a lot of stuff with us which made it more difficult). Good luck! If I were choosing between Korean Air or Qatar I'd probably say go with the less expensive of the two. They're fairly similar as far as service/food/flight time/ goes. 

12 hours ago, elgenon said:

How long was the layover? How long the entire trip? Thanks.

The flight from BKK to Doha is about six hours. We had a three hour layover in Doha, but that's about perfect. Unlike Incheon, you don't have to go through screening again (meaning only at the gate....Incheon you have to stand in line with tons of other passengers before you can exit the arriving flights area). The flight from Doha to Chicago is about fifteen hours. It's about 24 hours to get to Chicago from BKK via Doha using Qatar Airlines. 

12 hours ago, elgenon said:

So you flew Qatar? What do you think of the airline? I will be doing LAX to BKK when allowed.

All and all it wasn't too bad other than the weight restrictions on the baggage. They're quite the sticklers on that (including carry-on luggage). But the flight itself was fine (and on-time). Had never flown Qatar before, but as flights were limited we went with them. Pretty smooth all and all except for the weight restrictions. I would guess 30% of the passengers were in the same situation as us (i.e. bags on the floor repacking everything). 

My wife and I returned two weeks ago. We had multiple bags and had to pay quite a bit for the extra luggage, but everything arrived with us (went through Qatar to Chicago). Tons of meds and everything made it. Only x-ray (in my direct view) was one oversized bag we had. To the best of my knowledge the other bags were not. TSA rifled through two of the bags but we had a TON of stuff so I wasn't surprised (we sold our condo and had been in BKK three consecutive years this go around).

Got first vaccine (Moderna) at Walmart of all places. Couldn't be easier to get it here. Next one in three weeks.

Good luck. Traveling from BKK was somewhat eerie as not many people were on the plane. But Qatar was a madhouse....as was O'hare.

Sorry just replying. I don't get on here very often. Yeah, I never get it either. Definitely a short language! ชู้....I'm sure you know เจ้าชู้....means to flirt obviously. ชู้ would be in the noun sense meaning an affair. You could say เขาเป็นชู้กับเธอเหรอ...would mean "he's having an affair with her?" Oddly it's not used in the verb sense. You couldn't say ผมชู้กับเธอ....you'd have to say ผมเป็นชู้กับเธอ...or insert your own pronouns ;) Hope that helps.Here are a few more examples:

ผู้หญิงคนนี้มีชู้-she's having an affair

เขาเป็นชู้กับเธอ-he's her lover (and she's already in a relationship...i.e. she's cheating)

You always have to say มีชู้  kind of like saying HAVE an affair....

Eric67 is correct.  ชู้ทางใจ....you secretly love her but haven't preformed any "action" yet...usually because one or both of you is in a relationship.

You would want to say เขา/เธอ เป็นคนที่บ้าอำนาจ or เขา/เธอชอบใช้อำนาจ 

ควบคุม is more like controlling something....like ควบคุม  traffic or a machine....ควบคุมการทำงาน...ควบคุมการจราจร... blah, blah, blah.

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