Hi

Does anyone know if there are cheap airlines (such as Air Asia) between Tokyo and Bangkok - one way - or can suggest a good cheap alternative route - i.e. via Tiawan etc - or bucket shop as prices I am finding are ridiculously expensive.

Duncan

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Moss

Edited March 25, 200917 yr by Mossfinn

Does anyone know if there are cheap airlines (such as Air Asia) between Tokyo and Bangkok - one way -

You're probably going to be just as well off buying a round trip. I checked kayak dot com for a Bkk-Nrt round trip in April and it returned United with a price of only $435 USD which is fantastic (even if taxes and fees are additional). I suspect you will find fares online that are as good as or better than anywhere else.

The best one way Nrt to Bkk for a flight on April 22nd was on Malaysian Airlines for about $650 USD which is still pretty reasonable.

Hi

Does anyone know if there are cheap airlines (such as Air Asia) between Tokyo and Bangkok - one way - or can suggest a good cheap alternative route - i.e. via Tiawan etc - or bucket shop as prices I am finding are ridiculously expensive.

Duncan

Nothing less than "ridiculously"?

This is why: to land a plane to NRT cost an airline 8,300US$. Yes, over eight thousand dollars just to land. What low cost airline would remain low cost with such landing fees? (that same landing into Souvarnabhumi is 1,850US$).

Small wonder there is no single low cost airline operating in Japan. The closest it gets to low cost is JetStar that has inherited Qantas landing slots and is a bit cheaper but not low cost.

Hi

Does anyone know if there are cheap airlines (such as Air Asia) between Tokyo and Bangkok - one way - or can suggest a good cheap alternative route - i.e. via Tiawan etc - or bucket shop as prices I am finding are ridiculously expensive.

Duncan

Nothing less than "ridiculously"?

This is why: to land a plane to NRT cost an airline 8,300US$. Yes, over eight thousand dollars just to land. What low cost airline would remain low cost with such landing fees? (that same landing into Souvarnabhumi is 1,850US$).

Small wonder there is no single low cost airline operating in Japan. The closest it gets to low cost is JetStar that has inherited Qantas landing slots and is a bit cheaper but not low cost.

Do they still use is Kansei? What about a different city, Nagoya? Don't imaging Osaka would be much cheaper than Narita.

just a quick look at this site and some ok fares available at first glance....

http://www.edreams.com/flights/tokyo-bangkok/

Do they still use is Kansei? What about a different city, Nagoya? Don't imaging Osaka would be much cheaper than Narita.

Kansai (KIX), it's Osaka. As expensive as NRT.

JetStar uses the short runway (for their A330) at KIX at specified time to come and go cheaply - about 3000US$.

Nagoya (Chubu) is cheaper but any low price then gets topped with transportation cost to get to Tokyo or Osaka.

Some airlines (United, American, NorthWest) had declared they were going to use Nagoya, back in 2005. Nothing happened, too inconvenient.

Somehow, for the people who don't know where they want to travel to, FinnAir has daily flights Helsinki-Nagoya.

Emirates too, Lufthansa as well.

Mostly travelled by international staff of Toyota, Suzuki, Honda, Yamaha, Panasonic, Sony and other production plants.