Flights to Phuket from Bangkok

My friend has persuaded me to take him to Phuket for a short break. I've always used Thai Air but have been told that there are now cheaper options. Any suggestions?

[Smiles]

Nok Air to Phuket is a good deal ( http://www.nokair.com/nokconnext/aspx/w ... lang=en-US (http://www.nokair.com/nokconnext/aspx/welcome.aspx?currlang=en-US) ). Flys smaller 737's but has a lot of daily flights. A small drawback to Nok Air is their rather miserly free baggage allowance: it's easy to go over their limit and will cost a few hundred baht extra.
With a plethora of surcharges & taxes included, a return flight Bangkok/Phuket/Bangkok is 3600 baht per person. Same dates plugged into Thai came up with 7100 baht per person, so Nok is a good saving (though I do believe all the lucre goes into the Thai coffers eventually, as Nok is a subsidary)

All in all, a nice airline for short haul flights. Patience needed with their website ... it's extremely slow (but gets the job done).

Cheers ...

[TrongpaiExpat]

But book as early as you can, sometimes if you book short noitice the Nok's price is the same as Thai Air.

Nok web site now accepts international credit cards, but you have to select the bank from a very long pull down tab. The site is slow too.

They let me and the BF pass once without extra charges on being overweight, the luggage, not me!

Last month we booked to fly from Phuket to Bangkok in March and paid B3580 per person one way.

It's just a short flight, therefore any low costs carrier might do. Just search the web for NOK (which is the THAI Airways own low cost carrier), AirAsia, maybe TigerAir, Bangkok Air or some others. There all are OK.

I am not sure Phuket Air is still operating business due to there lousy safety standard.

Flying Thai from Bangkok to Phuket can get very expensive.

[fedssocr]

A good tool to compare fares in Kayak. www.kayak.com (http://www.kayak.com) Plug in your info and it searches pretty much every airline. It also searches AirAsia, Bangkok Air, etc so you should get most if not all of the low cost carriers in your search.

Thanks!

My friend has persuaded me to take him to Phuket for a short break. I've always used Thai Air but have been told that there are now cheaper options. Any suggestions?
Does it have to be from BKK? IF you are in or nearer Pattaya there is always Bangkok Air's U-tapao/Phuket route. Prices are about the same or maybe slightly cheaper than the Phuket/BKK route. The main attraction is the shorter road distance from Pattaya (about 30 mins by car) and the lack of crowds and congestion at U-tapao.

http://www.airasia.com/site/en/home.jsp - random dates in March 2780 baht
http://www.nokair.com/ - 2636 baht
http://www.onetwo-go.com/ - 3500 baht

Boutique
http://www.bangkokair.com/ - 6535 baht


Comparison site http://www.skyscanner.net/ - generally Air Asia is the cheapest but not always.