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Title: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: MikeDundee on 08 January 2008, 14:52:43
Been checking out some flights and the best deal I can find is with Eva Air at £506 return LHR to Bangkok, £1811.00 including the kids.

Anyway the other problem is that Eva Air only have 3 seats think they fly 737's, and as we are 4 folks we ideally need an airline that flys 747's so we can get the 4 seats together. So it will be Thai Airways checking in at £2119.00. These are all return flights only thing is I will be the only one returning :(, will need to change their flights when we get their, as it is too expensive to buy a single ticket it comes in more than a return >:(    
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: Elite Pete on 08 January 2008, 14:54:27
3 seats would be better, the wife and 2 kids on one row and you at the barback :y
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: MikeDundee on 08 January 2008, 14:57:26
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3 seats would be better, the wife and 2 kids on one row and you at the barback :y


Yes I know that's what I would prefer, tried that one this morning, but she'd rather we fork out an extra 300 bucks >:(, which is a waste as that would cover the internal flights and have some change left :(  
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 08 January 2008, 15:06:24
Have you tried searching on price runner....
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: Nickbat on 08 January 2008, 15:07:32
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Been checking out some flights and the best deal I can find is with Eva Air at £506 return LHR to Bangkok, £1811.00 including the kids.

Anyway the other problem is that Eva Air only have 3 seats think they fly 737's, and as we are 4 folks we ideally need an airline that flys 747's so we can get the 4 seats together. So it will be Thai Airways checking in at £2119.00. These are all return flights only thing is I will be the only one returning :(, will need to change their flights when we get their, as it is too expensive to buy a single ticket it comes in more than a return >:(    

No Mike, Eva Air do not operate 737s ex-London (they are far too short -range), they generally use 747s, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVA_Air#Special_liveries
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: Paul M on 08 January 2008, 16:23:23
Just don't use the return part of the tickets. It's quite common for people to do this, as returns are cheaper than singles :-?

As long as you don't do it the other way around -- buy a return ticket, don't use the outbound and try to use the return, they will cancel the return because the outbound wasn't used!
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: MikeDundee on 08 January 2008, 18:20:29
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Been checking out some flights and the best deal I can find is with Eva Air at £506 return LHR to Bangkok, £1811.00 including the kids.

Anyway the other problem is that Eva Air only have 3 seats think they fly 737's, and as we are 4 folks we ideally need an airline that flys 747's so we can get the 4 seats together. So it will be Thai Airways checking in at £2119.00. These are all return flights only thing is I will be the only one returning :(, will need to change their flights when we get their, as it is too expensive to buy a single ticket it comes in more than a return >:(    

No Mike, Eva Air do not operate 737s ex-London (they are far too short -range), they generally use 747s, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVA_Air#Special_liveries

I knew I was probably wrong there, and yes thats the one 777 but could'nt remember the type of boeing, they're big but onlty have the 2 engines, have flown with Eva a few times :y
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: MikeDundee on 08 January 2008, 18:33:36
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Have you tried searching on price runner....


I am doing that at the moment and the site is taking ages to come up with the deals ::)
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: MikeDundee on 08 January 2008, 18:42:32
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Have you tried searching on price runner....


I am doing that at the moment and the site is taking ages to come up with the deals ::)

Well its just stuck on this now:

http://travel.pricerunner.co.uk/flight/results/60690
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: iggy21uk on 08 January 2008, 19:05:14
Any dates, kids under 12?

Might be able to  get some prices?
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 08 January 2008, 20:02:54
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Just don't use the return part of the tickets. It's quite common for people to do this, as returns are cheaper than singles :-?

As long as you don't do it the other way around -- buy a return ticket, don't use the outbound and try to use the return, they will cancel the return because the outbound wasn't used!

Happened to me once a few years back - left me stranded at Schiphol, and I had to pay an extra £150 to fly home with another airline  >:(  ;D
Title: Re: HOLIDAY FLIGHTS.................
Post by: MikeDundee on 08 January 2008, 20:10:15
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Just don't use the return part of the tickets. It's quite common for people to do this, as returns are cheaper than singles :-?

As long as you don't do it the other way around -- buy a return ticket, don't use the outbound and try to use the return, they will cancel the return because the outbound wasn't used!

Happened to me once a few years back - left me stranded at Schiphol, and I had to pay an extra £150 to fly home with another airline  >:(  ;D

Last year I was quoted a 1,000 for a one way ticket back from Bangkok, from Eva Air, when I went to their offices, but when I went Eva air online I managed to get them at £346. We lost the original return, as the dates we wanted to come back was outside of the 6 months, sure there is a post on this somewhere in general chat last year ;D