Domestic Cargo

[Joel Barlow]

would be grateful if anyone would explain about how to find the cargo office at the new airport (at Don Muang it was easy!).

I'm returning to the Kingdom with more luggage weight than the budget airline I transfer to will take (unless for, my travel agent said, B80/kilo)... I'm sure to save a few thousand baht with a bit of time, walking and a return to my local airport to pick up the luggage later!

But I've only been at Suwanapoom once - and only in International!

I imagine I want Thai Air, but it ain't necessarily so...

[Joel Barlow]

Noticed that someone else tried for this info - then replied to his lonesome self all alone on a useless thread...

anyway, what I did was take a cab from in front of the main terminal to the cargo terminal. Had to communicate that this was not an out-of-airport trip, to save the cabbie some money, then do some u-turns to get from international cargo (mistake) to domestic, but I still saved B1400 even with giving the cabbie B260 (meter fare, B50 airport surcharge, tip). There are buses, but you take a bus to the bus terminal, then another gets you to domestic cargo, where you take care of your business (tired from hauling the luggage) and wait for another bus to take you back...

You certainly cannot walk to the cargo offices (unlike at Don Muang!) but the cargo service was good.

[Robroy]

Bringing excess baggage into Chiang Mai from overseas, most will be routed into CM via Thai Airways.

But be careful of this Thai Airways scam:

The luggage arrives & they phone your mobile number as they are meant to, let it ring for about 1 second, then hang up.

Thus they have "attempted to contact you".

Two or three weeks later you are wondering where your suitcase or box from Melbourne/London/LA has got to, & ring Thai.

They tell you it has been sitting there for 2-3 weeks collecting 100 baht a day "storage fee".

You go in and complain; they pull out the record of the "phone call" they made to you.

You complain further; they summon their in-house bureaucrat (an Indian) who pulls out an enormous book the size of two telephone books, called simply:

RULES

and spends a long time finding then reading to you the section & sub-section & sub-sub-section which says you are wrong & they are right.

You pony up.