Taipai Airport

[timber]

I am going to Canada (Vancouver) in April with the wife. I normally go through Hong Kong. This time I am going with China Airlines landing through Taipai. I have one hour between flights, should I be worried. I think you normally go from terminal 1 to terminal 2. Anything I should be aware of.

[Krub]

I am going to Canada (Vancouver) in April with the wife. I normally go through Hong Kong. This time I am going with China Airlines landing through Taipai. I have one hour between flights, should I be worried. I think you normally go from terminal 1 to terminal 2. Anything I should be aware of.

It is not clear from your post but I suppose you leave from Bangkok to Vancouver via Taipei with China Airlines.

If you are using China Airlines between Bangkok and Taipei and then again between Taipei and Vancouver, one hour transit is all you need.

You will stay in the same terminal and you do not have to worry about luggage.

[timber]

Thanks for the infor. I believe the ticket says I arrive terminal 1 and depart terminal 2. Is there much of a distance involved?

[sbk]

No, its not far at all. Haven't flown through there for a few years but I don't remember having to walk great distances.

[Florin]

There's actually a little train that takes you from one terminal to another in a minute or two...

[timber]

Thanks Guy!! Worry about these things

[sbk]

Hey, I'm a planner too. Nothing wrong with thinking ahead!

[lanny]

I've flown China Airlines through Taipei several times and never had a problem getting from one gate to another. Never had too far to walk.

The one thing that I didn't like is that you have to go through security, including carryon baggage screening when you go from Arrivals to Departures! Since you had to be screened at your original departure, where would you have gotten anything in between? Took longer in line than the rest of the walk.

[Florin]

I've flown China Airlines through Taipei several times and never had a problem getting from one gate to another. Never had too far to walk.

The one thing that I didn't like is that you have to go through security, including carryon baggage screening when you go from Arrivals to Departures! Since you had to be screened at your original departure, where would you have gotten anything in between? Took longer in line than the rest of the walk.

You actually came across a queue in Taipei airport? The times I was there and from what a lot of people told me, it's a ghost town...

[Axel]

I've flown China Airlines through Taipei several times and never had a problem getting from one gate to another. Never had too far to walk.

The one thing that I didn't like is that you have to go through security, including carryon baggage screening when you go from Arrivals to Departures! Since you had to be screened at your original departure, where would you have gotten anything in between? Took longer in line than the rest of the walk.

You actually came across a queue in Taipei airport? The times I was there and from what a lot of people told me, it's a ghost town...

Basically at any airport you will have to go through security while transiting. You could have picked up something in the transit hall, on board the previous flight, or perhaps the security check at the previous airport might not have been up to the standards of the present one.

As for CKS - airport in Taipei, the queues for transit are perhaps longer than, e.g. Hong Kong where you find more tranit-spots. Generally, the airport is not small with roughly 380 movements a day. (take off and landings), http://www.cksairport.gov.tw/CKSeng/statis...eryresult_e.jsp

However, for arriving pax the waiting at immigration is usually not as bad as BKK or HKG.

[Carmine6]

I've flown China Airlines through Taipei several times and never had a problem getting from one gate to another. Never had too far to walk.

The one thing that I didn't like is that you have to go through security, including carryon baggage screening when you go from Arrivals to Departures! Since you had to be screened at your original departure, where would you have gotten anything in between? Took longer in line than the rest of the walk.

You actually came across a queue in Taipei airport? The times I was there and from what a lot of people told me, it's a ghost town...

It's a ghost town late at night through early morning when lots of flights to North America go through. During the day, it has as many people walking around as a shopping mall, although it probably is overbuilt for the traffic that goes through it.

As for security when changing planes, I'm amazed that people getting off a plane have as many problems as they do going through the metal detectors. Lots of times you'd think the person hasn't been through one ever by the 3 times they set the detector off, take something off, go back through and repeat.