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Shame it's not a single, or I would have booked for my wife!

Terrified she'd use the return! :stuck_out_tongue:

​Pop a kilo of heroin in her luggage, Aussie custom are really good. She won't be coming back anytime soon.

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http://www.thaiairways.com/en_GB/exp_thai/our_aircraft/THAI_A380.page

Shame it's not a single, or I would have booked for my wife!

Terrified she'd use the return! :stuck_out_tongue:

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http://www.thaiairways.com/en_GB/exp_thai/our_aircraft/THAI_A380.page

This just seems to good to be true - does anyone know anything about Thai Airways? Are they about to go bankrupt or do their planes always fall into the sea or something?

oh wow, have cousins there, may pop over and say 'hi' :smiley:

Thai have been in financial trouble for a while. I have a few friends who work with them who are trying to move to other companies.Although unlikely to go bust anytime soon, having flown with them I was not impressed. Staff sleeping in empty seats at the back of the plane, orange juice watered down, seat broken, late departures etc ......

They have the A380 on some routes and I was pleased overall with my experience. its the national carrier for Thailand and poor financial management which not unusal in the world of aviation!

thanks

Great Airline, incredible flight prices

£362 Now still amazing fare

you can do a stopover for few days in bangkok for £20-£30 more.

isn't it always the Asian airlines that go missing?

LHR-BKK
BKK-AUC
AUC-LHR
end of march 398

Thanks

do not use skyscanner. use momondo uk instead

Decent prices business class too, usually a lot more for AKL.

How is Momondo different?

To be held by Kiwis. All you need is to hide an apple and a bananas. If you want to look her up scatter some orange seeds in her luggage

OP how do you search this kind of deals ? I need looking for MAN-BOM-MAN anything really.

That is a great price Thai air have got some new A380 as well.

Same price to bangkok, if you think Auckland is too far

Managed an incredible £415 after 2 hours of searching via skyscanner, choosing ebookers, stopping on way out for 2 nights in BKK. Expedia prices didn't exist (sharp practice if you ask me) and opodo kept on increasing the flight during the booking process and then wanted extra for a credit card payment. Thanks kris1234.

Better usually.

Anyway booked direct on Thai website.
LHR-BKK (7 days in Bangkok)
BKK-AUC (few days in AUC)
AUC-LHR all for £406 with no credit card fees.

If you don't know, it don't matter.

Excellent deal this and Thai Airways too. The challenge for me is *not* the airline but the agents offering these fares - I've never heard of any of them and so have no idea whether they are "reliable"!!

Would have booked directly on the Thai Airlines site but exactly the same flights are priced at 250% of this deal at £929 per person as opposed to £374 via agents for the exact same dates and flights.

Anyone care to share any thoughts please on how to get the TA site to cough up the same pricing?

Hmmm think am too late at the party, 3wk flights show approx 400 on kayak but when i click through the tickets are no longer available at this price and have gone up 250-300 quid.

You snooze, you lose :-(

Still working. Book on Thai website. They won't charge you credit card fee. Sample. Lhr-bkk 17mar, bkk-auc 24 mar, auc-bkk 28 mar. All for £406

Same dates with travel agent min £427 + about £16 card fee.

Shame, I'm looking to fly out from around 16th dec +/- a few days and return in Jan (for the other half) and march for me. Couldn't find anything near that price. :disappointed:

travelled with Thai Airways a few times and they were always spot on....usual Thai hospitality and top class service and care...brilliant airline.

@thebuzzer - thanks for the tip, will have a look see what TT come up with and report back.

Update - TT don't seem to do multi-leg or do I need to get my eyes tested??:sunglasses:
LHR-BKK BKK-AKL AKL-BKK BKK-LHR

True, but I want to go to New Zealand :smiley: Similar deal I suppose.

Best I can find is £1100 which still isn't bad if I include a few days layover in Bangkok

does this go via australia ? i thought it was direct

It's direct from Bangkok

​Duh. I meant kiwi

Too many searches I reckon. I'm now getting prices between £2500 to £7000.

You are wrong. Still plenty available.

Thanks for the reply! Will look into the dates then

Edit: Deleted my original response. It was boring. Fair play, you got lots of likes :smile:

How do they make money on a flight like this? What is it - like a 28 hour flight?

Any tips on Thai from Heathrow ?
This is really a top deal.

Hopefully still around till Monday so I can book time off work

Once you have booked and got your flight numbers you can check out the aircraft layouts at Seat Guru.
If you check-in early enough (or if there is online check-in) you may be able to choose your preferred seat.
http://www.seatguru.com/

Looking to do

LHR > AKL Oct 8th
AKL > BKK Dec 8th
BKK > LHR Dec 24th

Any way I can make this deal work? I am seeing £6,179.05 when I try on the Thai Airways site.

Flexible on dates.

Oddly enough, New Zealanders also have Christmas about the same time, so a lot of them go back home also. Like me... last two trips home out and back either side of Christmas has set me back over £2k.

That's it booked for next year. I hate you HUKD.

4/9 - 25/9 LHR to BKK £482, same dates LHR to AKL £411

Crazy..!?

More likely you have never been to south asia and New zeland . I can fight it. no problem at all for me. flying 20 times a year to that area.

Wow what a deal, booked via the Thai airways website, and did the option to pay in 72h, hope they honour the price once I got the time booked off work! Thanks OP

city not airport :smiley:

I got it for 362 next June. Cheers op.

Aucklands a bit dull. Most of the good stuff is on the South Island - and that's a fair way away from Auckland

Damn booked with AA last month to Christchurch for £1200 for this November, booking now with Thai to Auckland is £429 and a separate flight with Jetstar to Christchurch is only £40

Dec, 2015: Thailand's airlines downgraded over safety concerns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/thailand/articles/Thailands-airlines-downgraded-over-safety-concerns/

If you don't know, it don't matter.

Anyone found any dates to do three weeks towards the end of June/start of July, I'm getting £900+

This is an insanely hot deal

Hey fellow HOTUKDEALers what a great deal. When I saw this earlier today I looked into it played around with the dates etc and found that it included the half term week in June 2017 (girlfriend is a teacher) so thought if we ever go here this is the perfect opportunity at this price. I've booked with stop overs of 13 and 16 hours in Bangkok (most I could find) although I'm thinking it might not be long enough to really experience that part. I've seen some messages where people have said they managed to get a few days even a week in Bangkok before the onward flight. I couldn't find a way of doing this as the flights seemed to be more expensive just to Bangkok if I broke them up. Does anyone mind explaining how its been done on this occasion?

I paid 363 for the flights. Still can't believe I'm saying that. Works out about £8 an hour to fly with a great airline. Incredible.

Have a great weekend everyone!

MM

Got a week stopover in BKK but it was extra the cheapest route tended to be for a shorter stop although I did see fares around £390 for 6-8 days in BKK so you paid more for a longer stopover. I paid just £405 with Ebookers but it was worth it for me as I've never been to Thailand and I had weekend departure/returning flights and Easter so it's got the bank holidays so less annual leave to book off work :-) and I really like April in NZ, shoulder season and still pretty good weather.

One of the best flight deals this year. Great find,booked.Thank you

Booked. Flying in November, straight to AKL there for a week. Fly back to BKK, few days there then back home. Been wanting to visit and for £400 it's crazy not yo. Was going to visit the US buy this is a stonking deal and the timings work extremely well. Heat! Super hot! BTW, the 777 fleet are 9 abreast in Thai configuration. Most airlines fly ten abreast so you're getting comfort too.

20 times a year would be every two weeks!! What do you do?
Better off buying a house there.

work for Datacom Group Ltd. In march will be going holiday to Thailand and see friends in New Zeland.

Flew with Thai Airways and can really recommend them! They're excellent. Great food, service, comfort.

Anyone found out this yet? I tried to ring but they are not open to ask. I think the terms and conditions say you can pay in the 72 hours but I can't get confirmation.

I know someone who is going to OZ to work. He is thinking of adding 2 weeks in New Zealand on at the start of this, so if thinking of using this deal but would book a separate flight back from Oz when he is done. He's found a £403 deal, will be be OK to use OUTBOUND only and just not turn up for the Return flight?

Thanks very much, OP, this is a great deal. £400 per person is pretty close to what I would have paid for staff tickets to NZ, so to get confirmed flights is ridiculously cheap.

Having flown on Thai a lot I'll vouch for them as a very good airline. The shabby old 747s from LHR were replaced a couple of years ago and the A380s / 777s are much better. Just remember to get on your knees if a member of the Thai royal family is walking by...

I couldn't see any reason why not although the airline could in theory charge you if you don't turn up.

One of my oldest mates just done around a five stretch in NZ and we are talking major major amounts so I'm sorry it's a bit of a myth that they are draconian strict when it comes to 'importation' offences.

Too many people clearly been watching too many fly on the wall documentaries about Antipodean law/customs enforcement. that are edited to the max #justsaying

Please don't call the airline. That would be the perfect way to get this deal pulled.

Amazing deal. Booked via Thai Airways website. No credit card fees!

which month is the best time to go? I want it to be very sunny.

Ah i see, how do you book flights with stop overs like this? is it a case of booking the flights separately with the stop over in between? If it is - I tried to do this end of May early June but the prices sky rocketed.

Thanks,

MM

can not find cheap flight am I too late ?

Yes you need to do it as a multi stop:

Lhr to Bkk
BKK - AKL
AKL - Lhr

Or put the stop in Bkk at the end.

Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb

New Zealand weather is a bit like the UK but with better summers and colder winters (in places). So Dec, Jan, Feb is the best time to go for sun, but that's also when the tickets are full price.

New Zealand weather is a bit like the UK but with better summers and better winters. London is 51° from the equator, Wellington is 41°. NZ is warmer and it's never dark at 3.30pm.

Auckland rains a lot, but unless you're up a mountain then there's nowhere that it's colder than the UK, keeping in mind that the UK includes Scotland and most kiwis live in the sub-tropics.

The beer is, of course, much better in the UK.

Hottest deal in the worldTripWatcher! I booked today with TravelBag, thanks. Got loadza family there, NZ, not TB.

Thanks for replying!
So do you add multi stops as in its an option or book the flights all separately?

Wow, thanks TripWatcher, been wanting to visit NZ for years but flights are always so expensive. I've just booked two weeks over there next May/June via Opodo with a three day stopover in Bangkok on the way (been there before, just a little catchup) - £391 :smiley: Great spot, nice one! HEAT!

On Kayak or similar search engine you'd enter it as a multi stop so 3 flights.

Hi, what dates did you put in mate? Would be interested in something similar! Cheers!

Hi John - Thu 25th May to Sun 11th June (LHR on the 12th); if you use the Month View in Skyscanner it's easier to find the cheapest combo.

Are you asking whether it's like a 28 hour flight?
I'd say exactly like a 28 hour flight but nothing like a 27 hour flight.
That's completely different.
Then again a 27 hour flight is nothing like a 26 hour flight.
Hope that helps !!

Looks like the airline have cottoned on, prices are back to normal, good luck to all those that have purchased the fare!

I booked it yesterday. Originally thought about combining with a longer Thailand trip - same prices for a 3 week stopover in Thailand but decided to just have one week there instead.

Yup, looks like it's finished. What a deal though!

If you manage to book don't forget to mention fare you paid to your fellow passenger (hopefully not hukder). Interesting to see reaction! :stuck_out_tongue:

Certainly wouldn't want to leave my food unattended for too long...

Let's behave and be nice to each other, also because...
there'll always be someone who has more luck and is better off:
Imagine someone flying business class telling you "I won 5 million with the lottery, quit my job and jetting the globe now" :stuck_out_tongue:

Just an FYI. New Zealand is also a 'Feel at home' destination if you're with Three Mobile. If you're not, get a PAYG sim. Happy days. :-)

Great deal. Good to see these amazing prices still appear every now and again. We snagged 5 flights to Oz in 2014, on Emirates, for £1600. Assumed it was a glitch / too good to be true at the time, but it was genuine :smiley:

So is that for cheap calls home & in NZ? Excuse my ignorance :neutral_face:

​Thanks for reminder. Booked for May half term next year.

And if that fellow passenger turns out to have got his/her fare for free courtesy of air miles, someone else paying or on company expenses?

Looks correct enough...

Anyone still finding these fares? They've doubled in price on the Thai website :disappointed:

So these were definitely a mistake fare, but Thai Airways is honouring them so congratulations to anyone who managed to secure this fare.

I boud

I doubt it. It's more a case of all the cheaper fares have been booked up.

I just called Thai Airways to pay for my flight and they confirmed that the fare was a mistake, so unless they were lying, that is the case

I paid for mine yesterday online through TRAVELBAG, my E-tickets came through within an hour. I've since called them as I'd spelt my own name wrong in my excitement :confused: Yesterday I sent Thai Airways a message & had a reply today. So everything's fine, I hope!

Fair enough. That information was missing from the
Fair enough. That info was missing from the original post, which seemed to be more speculation. Good on the airline if they are honouring the price though.

They have said they are honouring for everyone who managed to book.

Interesting - thanks for that information, nightmareprince.

I have still got to call and pay for mine, did they allow you to purchase them at the price you held them for?

Hi guys
Anyone know If you book via a 3rd party if your still able to get airmiles with the airline?

Thanks,
MM

Did you really gave the call to the office?
So they said they will honour all the tickets?

What reason do you have to question his honesty?

Just asking. Sorry.

Yes you would get airmiles.
however this is likely booked under W class (deep discounted economy) so you (and me too) will get only 25% of base miles flown.

I think round trip LHR-BKK-AKL is 24000 miles, so we might get around 6000 miles for our efforts.
The question is which program (of Star Alliance membership) allows higher than 25% of base miles flown on Thai W class ticket.

I called today to pay for my flights as I had only held them on Saturday. I didn't mention about error fares etc, she just went over my details and confirmed the cost, she took my card details and then passed them over to their ticketing team, I then got an email with my e-tickets around an hour later, so I would say we are all good to go, as this would have been their chance to say hang on something is wrong here. Hope we all enjoy Thailand, Bangkok and in my case australia!

Did anyone else go for the cheap business fares on offer at the same time. We managed to land two business class tickets all the way rtns. for £1800 each. For Business that is a great fare, and Thai business class rated above British Airways for comfort and service. On Skyscanner for same dates now £2650 and on the Airways own web site now £4000 each! Madness variation in prices.

can i ask who you use for air miles? i fly all over the place but never bothered with air miles

It looking so good

Has anyone actually used this flight yet? So how was it?

I'm booked in for Fri 26th May to Mon 12th June - nothing has changed with my booking, still all on course it appears.

​You credit to airline and use it to redeem for future flight or upgrades

​Flying the same date outbound.

Would love to here if anyone has actually flown this. I can't see anything happening to an existing booking like cancellation but still good to here people's experiences.

Have yet to book hotels and care hires etc.
A lot of these will be non refundable so it will be good to get a certainty.

nnj10 - I booked with Rental Cars (google it) - got a really good deal. The majors were twice the price & more.

Just back. Unbelievable trip, excellent airline, out of this world price.

Just to add this Thai Air trip can be credited to United Airlines, if you fancy collecting airmiles.
Should be around 6000 miles (25% of flown miles)