BOOK NOW: British Airways adds extra Bangkok flights for Easter 2025

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• Domo1915 says:

  25 Jul25 July 17:32

  These will go because there’s so few Asia routes but I find it hard to justify 220k points plus 575 in tax per person to BKK compared to e.g a Tokyo redemption where cash price is typically far more expensive.

  • Danny says:

    25 Jul25 July 17:48

    I still don’t know why everyone raves about the Gatwick BA lounge. Strange lingering smell… As well as lingering staff who pounce on your plate if you dare leave it for 5 seconds.

    Why BA can’t put self closing lids on the hot food to stem the stink… Like most other lounges do…

    • Darren says:

      25 Jul25 July 20:03

      I quite like the Gatwick first lounge. Rarely busy and really calm unlike it’s T5 counterpart which feels more like a Galleries lounge these days.

    • Catalan says:

      25 Jul25 July 20:19

      Danny is the new Paul 🙂

    • Kevin says:

      25 Jul25 July 20:28

      A wonderfully odd comment raging against a topic not mentioned in the article or any comments. I’ve been to hundreds of lounges and I don’t recall such a lid anywhere!

      • Danny says:

        26 Jul26 July 08:09

        Kevin has never been in a Cathay lounge then

  • John says:

    26 Jul26 July 09:06

    I paid 150k points + £592.40 for return BA flights in CW Nov/Dec, booked a few months ago.

• James says:

  25 Jul25 July 18:16

  Flying to BKK direct from the London area is expensive. 2 carriers and they code share some of the flights. BA used to fly the kangaroo route through BKK and there was competition.

  • BJ says:

    26 Jul26 July 09:19

    There used to be 6 daily nonstop flights from LHR to BKK, all on 747-400s. 2x BA, 2 Thai, 1x EVA and 1x Qantas. ME3 eith vlights from the regions, not yields, were tgdir ondoing.

• Peter K says:

  25 Jul25 July 18:54

  I don’t know what lounges you have been to but I’ve never seen self closing lids that I can recall.

  • LittleNick says:

    25 Jul25 July 19:36

    I presume they mean those silver lids which have a slow close rather than self-closing

    • BJ says:

      26 Jul26 July 09:23

      Much to my embarassment I managed to knock one over one time, huge racket and massive mess (

  • ZW says:

    25 Jul25 July 21:59

    I presume it means the lids that people need to use to close/cover the food. Rather than no lids/just leave it open and expose to the air.

  • Danny says:

    25 Jul25 July 23:02

    Qantas and Cathay lounges have self-closing lids – the hinge has a slow close mechanism so food is kept hot and smells don’t permeate around like a cheap canteen.

• Ben says:

  25 Jul25 July 19:10

  Are they press button operated or AI controlled or do you just wave your hand over a sensor?

• Chris W says:

  25 Jul25 July 21:54

  Where are all these comments about self-closing lids coming from

• Ed says:

  25 Jul25 July 22:19

  Honestly, do yourselves a favour and just fly Thai or Eva.
  You’ll likely be best off buying a multi city ticket with Thai if visiting BKK and another destination in Thailand.

  • Danny says:

    25 Jul25 July 23:07

    Eva would be my first choice by far.

    Thai can be very hit and miss with crew but reportedly are much better post-covid.

    • Lewis says:

      26 Jul26 July 01:18

      Yeah Thai crew have really improved again recently. To be honest, my favourite way to get between where I live in Thailand and back home in the UK is Qatar via Bangkok/Doha. Splits up the journey much better and quality is hard to beat. EVA is pretty good though and has lots of codeshare partners for internal flights in Thailand anywhere you might want to go.

      • BJ says:

        26 Jul26 July 09:34

        Service levels on Qatar is much more erratic thsn I ever experience on Thai but I have not flown Thai in over 10 years.

    • BJ says:

      26 Jul26 July 09:30

      @Danny, dumb choice by far if EVA is once daily and Thai is twice, if Thai is still using A350 on route versus EVA 777, and if you need onwards flights in Thailand or Asia.

      • Danny says:

        26 Jul26 July 09:59

        Does Eva not offer “onwards flights in Asia”?

        • BJ says:

          26 Jul26 July 15:52

          Yes if you continue on from BKK to TPE, there’s also some codeshares from BKK but start connecting with those and often the price doesn’t look good. By contrast, there are many options with Thai.

      • valeoak says:

        26 Jul26 July 16:36

        Yeah, but one of the Thai flights is at midday. The flight you really want to BKK from LHR is an evening departure and Thai and EVA’s flights leave within 10 minutes of each other.

        • Danny says:

          26 Jul26 July 17:08

          Indeed, can’t think many would want the morning Thai flight out of choice for LHR to BKK.

        • BJ says:

          26 Jul26 July 21:19

          I admit I used to favour the evening flight in my *A days. However, early flight was fine too if one can sleep becausevit hot youbstraightnonto Thai time on arrival provided you could stay awake all day then get a good nights sleep.

  • Gordon says:

    26 Jul26 July 07:36

    I agree, both Thai and Eva are good, my first flight to BKK many years ago, was at the back of the bus in Eva, and we had metal cutlery, at the time most other airlines offered plastic.

  • BJ says:

    26 Jul26 July 09:25

    +1

• David says:

  26 Jul26 July 00:10

  Had my first Ying Yang flight. Was happy overall but shocked at lack of storage. If tray table is stored I had to have my bottle of water, phone, snacks tucked on the side of me while in bed mode. Little box at the bottom only accesible in sitting mode.

  After having flown IB A350 the overall product diff was night and day.

• Mark says:

  26 Jul26 July 09:53

  Coincidentally I booked a business class Avios redemption for 2 to Kuala Lumpur and back from Phuket last weekend for March/April 2025, outbound with BA using a Barclays upgrade voucher and return with Qatar. I also have an Amex 2for1 and when I saw this was wondering if it would have been cheaper to have used that instead og the Barclays voucher and come back from Bangkok with BA (ignoring the quality/experience comparison).

  The short answer is it comes out about even. It would have saved 40,000 Avios, but cost around £250 more in cash and used the rather more valuable voucher – granted, I think the return date is off-peak with Qatar and peak with BA. BA would have been direct, but then we are getting 6 hours in the Al Mourjan lounge…

  So we’re sticking with what we have but I did notice that one-ways from Bangkok have a much lower cash charge (£164pp) compared to the inbound element of a return (£287.50pp). Given we might end up using an Amex 2for1 on shorthaul to avoid expiry that almost would have been worth using both vouchers for two separate bookings.

  • Marcw says:

    26 Jul26 July 10:34

    I was glad I could continue my journey after 2 h in the Al Mourjan lounge. Soulless, sterile, and zero atmosphere.

    IDK what’s so attractive about Al Mourjan…

    • Rob says:

      26 Jul26 July 10:42

      You weren’t in the new one in The Garden then? I agree the old one is sterile by comparison.

      • Mark says:

        26 Jul26 July 11:28

        Somehow missed The Garden last year (though we were there after it opened) – I wonder if a lot of people aren’t aware of it.

    • Mark says:

      26 Jul26 July 11:33

      Not just the lounge, but a superior overall experience of course and a much better hard product compared to the CW sleeper seat, even though we’re unlikely to get QSuite this time (as the only availability was into Gatwick).

    • BJ says:

      26 Jul26 July 15:59

      It’s like wandering around the terminal building itself except
      you can stop here and there for a drink or a snack at no charge.

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