A friend of mine who used to fly to Samui regularly told me a good trick to avoid overweight baggage fees was to go (in DM) around the corner to the Air Cargo office for BKK air and put your overweight baggage in as cargo. He said it was alot cheaper than paying overweight fines.

Any ideas if this is still possible at the new airport? Is the Bangkok Air Cargo office anywhere near the domestic office?

they charge 200 baht for 12kilos and then 18 baht a kilo up to 45k. Does anyone know what their overweight baggage charge is?

Well, you guys are hopeless

So, I emailed Bangok Air Cargo, not really expecting a response and got one in less than one day!

Please be noted that our cargo office will be opened from 4.00 A.M. until 10.30 P.M. The Bangkok Airways cargo office location is "in the Domestic cargo Terminal of Thai Airways"

Our Contact number is 662 177-4546 through 50

Well, clearly I am the only interested in this topic

but in case someone is interested in the future: overweight luggage charges for Bangkok air is about 67 b/kilo.

the cargo office is in a seperate building and is open from 4 am to 10:30 pm. There is a shuttle bus that runs every 30 minutes from the main passenger terminal to the Cargo office. thanks to Boxer for a good map of the terminal area!

Now I am not sure if I will bother or not, seems alot of trouble to take the bus to another building, although the savings (if 40k) is tremendous, a cost of 700 baht for cargo or 2700 baht for overweight luggage.

SBK, you look lonely all by yourself in this thread. Nothing to add except a friendly "hello".

was looking exactly for this piece of advice, since was very difficult to find out on telephone if Bangkok Air had a cargo office. They kept telling me to go to Thai Air.

Thanks SBK!

I knew someone would be interested in it someday!

I knew someone would be interested in it someday!

keep trying man,good luck..