Is It A Long Walk Between Internation And Domestic

[kamalabay]

Question: When you come from international and will go to domestic. Is it far? My wife have very bad knees and can´t go so long way. Is it possible with some help?

Thanks

Worried husband

[z21rhd]

Question: When you come from international and will go to domestic. Is it far? My wife have very bad knees and can´t go so long way. Is it possible with some help?

Thanks

Worried husband

On arrival, she should be able to get ground staff to assist - they will have wheel chairs somewhere

[sbk]

Let the airline know ahead of time that she requires a wheelchair and they should arrange it for you so that she is picked up at the plane with the wheelchair.

[Soju]

Question: When you come from international and will go to domestic. Is it far? My wife have very bad knees and can´t go so long way. Is it possible with some help?

Thanks

Worried husband

Nobody really answered your question about if it is far or not, so I'll try.

Depending on your arrival gate and departure gate, the distance you need to travel can be quite far, but there are moving walkways everywhere, so there is very little actual walking. Unlike Don Muang, there is no separate domestic terminal at Suvarnabhumi - it is all one big terminal for both international and domestic. So after you arrive and pass through baggage claim / customs, you merely go up two floors (either by moving walkways, escalators, or elevators) and go to the domestic check-in counter. Depending on which airline you are taking and where their check-in counter is, you might have to walk a bit, but not really all that much and then walk from there to the domestic departure area. After going through door to the domestic departure area, you go down an escalator and again moving walkways to take you to your gate. So the only real walking that needs to be done is through immigration/baggage claim/customs and again in the departure hall. Certainly no more walking than would be required in any other airport around the world, provided you just stand on the moving walkways. I'd estimate that the total time spent actually walking would be something like 5 minutes worth distributed in the various areas. You'll spend a lot more time standing than you will walking.

[kamalabay]

Thanks very much.

Is it the same when we only transit to Phuket. We arrive with Thai and departur to Phuket with Thai. So in Phuket we go through the custum.

Hope you understand what I meen.

[happy_viking]

Thanks very much.

Is it the same when we only transit to Phuket. We arrive with Thai and departur to Phuket with Thai. So in Phuket we go through the custum.

Hope you understand what I meen.

yes good question we come nov 17 on thai air on route to phuket

[Soju]

Thanks very much.

Is it the same when we only transit to Phuket. We arrive with Thai and departur to Phuket with Thai. So in Phuket we go through the custum.

Hope you understand what I meen.

I know what you mean, as I've done it at Don Muang, but haven't yet at Suvarnabhumi. Maybe someone else can answer that question. I only saw the checkpoint where you can do the transit. It is right at the end of a moving walkway, not too far from immigration. So my best guess is that you only walk a short distance through the checkpoint, then back onto a moving walkway to the gate.

Don Muang used a bus gate for all International to Domestic transfers of this nature. They give you a sticker to attach to your clothing, then go to the bus gate lounge and wait there till boarding time. You then board a bus which drops you off at the rear of the aircraft and board using stairs. Not sure if that same procedure was used in all cases, but was used when I did it. I'd imagine they'd use a similar procedure at Suvarnabhumi being that you haven't passed immigration they don't want you to go to the domestic departure area because you could potentially leave that area and exit the airport without ever passing through immigration.

[kamalabay]

Yes I know the procedure at DonMuang from many trips. Hope the same will bee att Suvarnabhumi, it was very easy, specially when you are old and weak.

[dreimer]

Question: When you come from international and will go to domestic. Is it far? My wife have very bad knees and can´t go so long way. Is it possible with some help?

Thanks

Worried husband

Depending on your arrival gate and departure gate, the distance you need to travel can be quite far, but there are moving walkways everywhere, so there is very little actual walking.

This information is incorrect. I have personally used the international departures/arrival area and there are only two short moving sidewalks period. I also have a copy of the official "Suvarnabhumi Airport Guide" as published by King Power - King of Duty Free which also shows only two sidewalks.

[kamalabay]

> Dreimer.

Where can I see the map?

[dreimer]

> Dreimer.

Where can I see the map?

I got a copy in Thai immigration coming into the country.

I could not find it on the King Power website.

The only other maps that I have seen are from AOT and they are badly out of date.

[Soju]

Question: When you come from international and will go to domestic. Is it far? My wife have very bad knees and can´t go so long way. Is it possible with some help?

Thanks

Worried husband

Depending on your arrival gate and departure gate, the distance you need to travel can be quite far, but there are moving walkways everywhere, so there is very little actual walking.

This information is incorrect. I have personally used the international departures/arrival area and there are only two short moving sidewalks period. I also have a copy of the official "Suvarnabhumi Airport Guide" as published by King Power - King of Duty Free which also shows only two sidewalks.

I think you are talking about international departures. You are correct that there are only two very short moving walkways in the duty free area for departing passengers. The OP was asking about arriving on international and departing on domestic. In that case, AFAIK, there is no need to go anywhere near the duty free area that you are referring to. I can't speak for certain about all gates, but from my international arrival gate there were many moving walkways, all of which were working. For domestic flights, both arriving and departing there are also moving walkways the whole way except for a very short walk through a small "duty free" shopping area at the intersection of concourses A and B.

When I wrote that, I had not yet departed on an international flight. I since have and now see that there is a fair amount of walking that needs to be done for departing passengers who go through the duty free area, allthough it didn't seem to be any more than what was present at Don Muang. But as I say, this has no bearing on the OP.

Edited October 10, 2006 by Soju