Is 1 Hour & 15 Minutes Enough Time?

[shepsel]

I am arriving on a Thai Air flight at 6:30 am in Bangkok from Los Angeles and have a connecting flight to Chiang Mai at 7:45 am. I don't know why they made such a close connection time wise.

Is 1 hour and 15 minutes enough time to go through immigration and get to a connecting flight at Suvarnabhumi? I am arriving on a retirement visa, so I don't know if I will be delayed with immigration bureaucracy, and none of the airline officials can tell me if my luggage has to be picked up in Bangkok to go through customs and then rechecked to Chiang Mai or if my luggage will go right through to to the final destination.

I am wondering if any TV members are more familiar with this than the paid airline employees.

[Nacho]

I am arriving on a Thai Air flight at 6:30 am in Bangkok from Los Angeles and have a connecting flight to Chiang Mai at 7:45 am. I don't know why they made such a close connection time wise.

Is 1 hour and 15 minutes enough time to go through immigration and get to a connecting flight at Suvarnabhumi? I am arriving on a retirement visa, so I don't know if I will be delayed with immigration bureaucracy, and none of the airline officials can tell me if my luggage has to be picked up in Bangkok to go through customs and then rechecked to Chiang Mai or if my luggage will go right through to to the final destination.

I am wondering if any TV members are more familiar with this than the paid airline employees.

If it is a Thai airways flight to Chiang Mai, from LA ask them to check your bags all the way to Chiang Mai and clear immigration there. If your connection is one of the discount carriers you will definately have to clear immigration in Bangkok and will be cutting it close.

[kangeroo]

hello i have never had any problems doing that but it would be better if the immigration part was done in Chiang Mai . but i think you would have time ,these days if you let one of the staff at the airport know i have found they will move you through a lot faster.

[chiangmaibruce]

As stated you should be OK if your are flying Thai Air all the way to CNX and the luggage is marked through to the final destination - assuming the flight from the US arrives on time that is. Be prepared for a bit of a hike at BKK from one gate to the next - with only tiny trollies for your carry-on luggage - if you can find one that is.

[brommers]

Recently returned on TG from Johannesburg to CNX with 35 minute transfer thanks to delayed baggage loading in S Africa. Wheels touched runway at 07:00, off plane 07:05, through immigration - you can't do it in Chiang Mai any more, why? - & onto the 07:45 flight with 5 minutes to spare. And my through-checked bags made the flight!! It all depends where you plane docks on arrival from LA.