Air Berlin From Bkk To Europe

[jkinbkk]

I noticed that Air Berlin fly once a week too and from BKK.

Short transfer stop-over in Munich and then onwards. (final destination London Stansted)

I have used Air Berlin to get around Europe from London Stansted but as yet I never taken a long haul with them.

Has anyone here used Air Berlin for the BKK - Europe haul?

What was your experience/impression?

[tw25rw]

I noticed that Air Berlin fly once a week too and from BKK.

Short transfer stop-over in Munich and then onwards. (final destination London Stansted)

I have used Air Berlin to get around Europe from London Stansted but as yet I never taken a long haul with them.

Has anyone here used Air Berlin for the BKK - Europe haul?

What was your experience/impression?

I believe the long haul is the part of Air Berlin formerly known as LTU.. You might want to do some research on them, such as at airlinequality.com.

[citizen33]

I noticed that Air Berlin fly once a week too and from BKK.

Short transfer stop-over in Munich and then onwards. (final destination London Stansted)

I have used Air Berlin to get around Europe from London Stansted but as yet I never taken a long haul with them.

Has anyone here used Air Berlin for the BKK - Europe haul?

What was your experience/impression?

I believe the long haul is the part of Air Berlin formerly known as LTU.. You might want to do some research on them, such as at airlinequality.com.

Funnily enough in casting around for cheap flights at Christmas I took a look at their website today (main Air Berlin site). The current timetables for the London-Mun-BKK flights seem to end in September. They seem to fly most days. Typical prices seem to be about 850 euros return, though there are promotions on a couple of dates at around 350 euros each way. I'd be interested to hear if anybody has any experience of them.

[tw25rw]

http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/ltu.htm

Sound a bit cheap and cheerful. Like a long haul budget airline.

[THAILIBAN]

LTU has been a charter-carrier for package-tourists for ages and has recently been acquired by AirBerlin.

now all their flights have a "AB" flight number.

they fly BKK - Germany 9 times a week, as far as I know. I would NOT recommend them. the service is "no frills" (pay for alcoholic drinks, the complimentary catering very basic), and u will feel like in a sardine can,absolutely cramped conditions. seating space just 76 cm (Thai Air on B-747 or Malaysian on B-777: 86 cm).

it may be worth considering if u need a cheap one-way ticket to Europe/Germany, sometimes they have offers for as low as 14.000 THB incl. Taxes to Duesseldorf or Berlin. approx. the same price for one-way as the notorious Kuwait Air.

the feeder flights are operated by Air-Berlin (not the old LTU).

[asanee]

above has it right; they fly DAILY to germany, but the airport there varies with ay of week, best going to LST is via DUSSEldorf, quick transfer same day, the flight ex BKK is daytime.

its inded a holidaymaker akirline, but not really ''no-frills'': you do get free food and soft drinks, they offer German mags and newspprs etc. NO seat-screens, and yes pay for any alco and headsets (but can bring own and use). Staff on BKK flighs is mixed german and thai.

As LTU has recently been bought by them and theyre integrating other newly bought airlines too, and are still thinking about trhe long-haul flight strategy (LTU hjas been an enormous loss-maker for years, so something had to be turned anyway). EXcellent ontime and safety record, as you might expect from germans. For me a little better as just ''you get what you pay for'' (that would be more like EZ and the like), but obviously noone can give you singy/Thai style service at much lower prices. And I am Thai size, so all that endless quibbling about seats etc hardly touches me. In fact the fullness of the plane has much more to do with how comfy he flight is as all those measures.

[billp]

I live in Berlin and I've made a number of flights on LTU ever since they began offering direct non-stop sevice from Berlin-Tegel to BKK late last year.

It's fine, no big complaints. Not much leg room, especially if you end up in the middle of a row, as happened to us recently when we forgot to make a seat booking. But the food is OK, they do give you a beer or wine with dinner, cabin crew is efficient and friendly. Personally I don't give a dam_n about movies or seat-back screens, and I can do a lot in Thailand with the money I save on the flight.

Plus, in my case, it's great to arrive back directly in Berlin, 20 minutes from home, instead of landing in Frankfurt or Munich airports as I used to do with THAI flights. Such a downer to leave Thailand anyway, more so when subjected to additional hours in a sterile airport departure lounge.