First impressions suffer as airport immigration queues grow

[chopsticks]

I've never had a problem at Suvarnabhumi, 20-30 minutes at most departing and 5-10 minutes on arrival, I do tend to book near the front of the plane and walk rather quickly to immigration though to beat the rush.

Manchester is even better on arrival, scan your Passport and stare into a camera and you're through, I'm outside having a Cigarette in less than 10 minutes of the Plane doors opening.

Even quicker if you'd had an onward UK flight it seems :

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... y_loophole

or use a passport belonging to someone else.........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ds-newsxml

[BaaBaa.]

I've never had a problem at Suvarnabhumi, 20-30 minutes at most departing and 5-10 minutes on arrival, I do tend to book near the front of the plane and walk rather quickly to immigration though to beat the rush.

Manchester is even better on arrival, scan your Passport and stare into a camera and you're through, I'm outside having a Cigarette in less than 10 minutes of the Plane doors opening.

Even quicker if you'd had an onward UK flight it seems :

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... y_loophole

or use a passport belonging to someone else.........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ds-newsxml

As I said, none of that queueing nonsense.

[caller]

Arriving at terminal 3 is like arriving in some backward third world country, it’s a cesspit.

I agree with that, but in fairness, its heading for the big terminal in the sky soon after the redevelopment is finished.

[BaaBaa.]

Arriving at terminal 3 is like arriving in some backward third world country, it’s a cesspit.

I agree with that, but in fairness, its heading for the big terminal in the sky soon after the redevelopment is finished.

Are they getting rid? How much did they spend on it?

[Hobiecat]

The last time I came through immigration (Jan 18) the line up was huge, down the corridor towards the shops. I'm in and out of the airport a minimum of 8 times a year and am fast tracked through immigration on my departure but have to stand in the huge lines on my arrival back to LOS. Is there a fast track line on arrival at Suvarnabhumi that you pay a few thousand baht to get a fast track card like say in Dubai?

[Nereus]

The last time I came through immigration (Jan 18) the line up was huge, down the corridor towards the shops. I'm in and out of the airport a minimum of 8 times a year and am fast tracked through immigration on my departure but have to stand in the huge lines on my arrival back to LOS. Is there a fast track line on arrival at Suvarnabhumi that you pay a few thousand baht to get a fast track card like say in Dubai?

There are a couple of them, but not cheap and I do not know if they have a "card" as such:

http://fasttrack.in.th/index.php

http://www.thaifasttrack.com/ (cannot get this one to load?)

[caller]

Are they getting rid? How much did they spend on it?

The whole area is being redeveloped and some of that is already apparent.

http://www.heathrowairport.com/assets/B ... irport.pdf

[chopsticks]

Are they getting rid? How much did they spend on it?

The whole area is being redeveloped and some of that is already apparent.

http://www.heathrowairport.com/assets/B ... irport.pdf

Let's hope they remembered to budget for some snow ploughs.

[PeteC]

More from the people on the street......http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2011/02 ... 49699.html

With the risk of being bashed, they should get professional foreigners to run the place. Poaching from Singapore and Hong Kong comes to mind. Pete

[Khundon1975]

I agree Pete, Changi airport is one of the cleanest and well run airports that I have ever been through. Puts T3 at Heathrow to shame.
Maybe BAA creaming off to much, rather than reinvesting it back into the airport?