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Suwanabhumi Airport Immigration 07/11/2019 3:23 pm


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51 minutes ago, Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere said:

40 mins not the worse. My flight from Perth on Thai Airways was as billed "Smooth as silk" but Thai immigration rough. 

But THAI from Perth gets in around 10:30 PM no? How did your flight get in so early?

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13 hours ago, NanLaew said:

But THAI from Perth gets in around 10:30 PM no? How did your flight get in so early?

We always get the morning flight which gets in about 3.30 and there is never a big queue at that time. Even better when we fly straight up to Chiang Mai at 5.20.  No queue at all as you go through immigration at the domestic end.

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Do not forget that you have to be fingerprinted now.

 

I arrived on July 6th and it was done but I was lucky to be in a queue with European people that can read the instruction screen n English, In that case it took maybe 1 minutes more than usual for the scanning of the fingerprints.  For <usual> I means a long wait compared to the smaller countries around that do not use Arrival-departure card to staple in passport.

 

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11 hours ago, Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere said:

I think you chose the right avatar for your name. Try not to hit your head against that wall. Lol! 

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Thanks for somewhat insolently drawing my attention to the fact that TG does indeed have different flight times from Perth on alternate days.

 

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Yours.

 

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At least your one departed and got in early and you were already in the conga line only 3 minutes after the SCHEDULED arrival.

 

There's a lot to be said for the efficiency of THAI, eh?

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Similar situation yesterday at Don Muang , same time 3:00 ~ 3:30pm, I arrived from Sapporo and lines were miles long , but moved fairly quickly , as all passport control booths were manned for a change.

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It's school holidays time for loads of countries with a conventional calendar so families, backpackers. millennials and gap-year generation Y-ers and everything in between have started the annual summer travel ritual.

 

I am trying to get a domestic flight out of Broome next week and being quoted over 1000 quid one-way on Qantas biz class.

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1 hour ago, cnx355 said:

I was lucky to be in a queue with European people that can read the instruction screen n English

Lucky for those that can't read English that the instructions are in a language based on your passport ????

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24 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

It's school holidays time for loads of countries with a conventional calendar so families, backpackers. millennials and gap-year generation Y-ers and everything in between have started the annual summer travel ritual.

 

I am trying to get a domestic flight out of Broome next week and being quoted over 1000 quid one-way on Qantas biz class.

What's the cost of a return ticket?

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14 minutes ago, Salerno said:

Lucky for those that can't read English that the instructions are in a language based on your passport ????

...but nationality is no sure indicator of literacy as indicated by the little old Chinese lady who buggered about for the best part of 15 minutes at the inbound fingerprinting last month.

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6 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

What's the cost of a return ticket?

About the same price on Virgin as Virgin only shows availability on a r/t ticket. Meanwhile, Qantas skyrockets to almost 1500 quid which includes the bonus of a 50 hour stopover in Kununurra!

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46 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Last time I was stuck like that there was nearly no immigration counter manned. Hardly fault of immigration officers, but terrible management of the airport if this is a regular occurrence. If you manage the airport, you must know when planes are landing, you know from airlines how many approximately passengers are arriving (or at the least you can estimate from plane models/sizes) to adjust staffing dynamically. If that's beyond AOT's management capability, they should be sacked and replaced by a few extra lines in HR software.

The management either do not care about the queues, or do not understand the relationship between counter staff and queue length. Or both.

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2 hours ago, barry008 said:

So now you scan both hands and your passport is that correct. We are arriving over the weekend just need a heads up.

yes. right hand four fingers, left hand four fingers. then both thumbs.

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3 hours ago, roderick17 said:

I arrived at about the same time as you, I've never seen such a long line leading to the immigration counters, at swampy . Fortunatelty,   I followed a small family group into the priority immigration cue. That bit of very sly  cue jumping probably saved me a 90 minute wait. Thai immigration really need to do something and quickly!!

 

  TAT and the PM need to do something quickly to shake up the Immigration Police. The negative appraisal of their ordeal will  be more potent than all the expensive ads sent around the world and further damage future tourism  Scenes like this queue should be a wake-up call.

 

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