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Home » Reader question » Baggage check in Suvarnabhumi transit area?
Baggage check in Suvarnabhumi transit area?
Dear readers,
We travel with only hand luggage with KLM to Bangkok, to transfer to Bangkok Air to Mandalay. Since Bangkok Air's hand luggage requirements are stricter than those of KLM, we still have to check in our hand luggage for Mandalay.
Question: Can you check luggage in the transit zone? Or do you have to go through the (time-consuming) customs to the departure hall first? We only have 2 hours between arrival and departure…
Regards,
Jeroen
That doesn't really seem like a problem to me.
You just follow the transit route.
If your hand luggage is checked, then it is good. If it is not checked, then it is also good, right?
I think I misunderstood the question.
So you take hand luggage with KLM, but you have to check it in as hold luggage in BKK.
Then I think you should indeed go through the departure hall.
Upon arrival in Bangkok, you have a security check at both ends of the central corridor for passengers who have a flight connection to another destination.
There you have the normal passenger control as well as that of hand luggage.
I think you better ask that question to Bangkok Airways itself. And if you do indeed have to go through customs, 2 hours is very short. And keep in mind that the gate also closes earlier than the flight.
Good luck Any.
If you have one Amsterdam – Mandalay ticket, the KLM baggage rules also apply to the latter route. In that case, KLM is the 'principal carrier'. This is part of the agreement between Bangkok Airways and – among others – KLM. In that case you will also receive your boarding pass for the last leg at Schiphol.
just read,
The gate closes 20 minutes before the departure time
Stay in transit, go to the gate for the flight to Myanmar and if they are inconvenient, they can label the excess kilos at the gate and put them in the hold; I've seen that. You show your first ticket (from Amsterdam to Bangkok) and it's often good. They won't refuse you because your luggage is already in the hold and getting it out costs time and therefore money.
What I saw in Thailand at Lion Air: we are already on the plane, which is overcrowded, and we are asked to hand over bags for the hold. If the plane threatens to miss the 'lock', there are more options than usual.
Hello Jeroen, I did the same, but you just go through the transit control, and you just take the hand luggage on board, because they check it before you board, no problem at all.
If you have booked a ticket Amsterdam – Bangkok – Mandalay with KLM, you can check in your “hand luggage” as hold luggage at Schiphol and have it labeled to Mandalay. If you have booked the second route separately with BKK Air, this is not possible.
Have a nice trip. Piotr.
If he has done that – see my earlier response – he can simply take the hand luggage with him, even when transferring to Bangkok Airways. I suspect that the person asking the question wanted to avoid hold luggage, so why would he check in his hand luggage at Schiphol………..
thanks for your responses!
So what it's all about: 1) we don't have a booked ticket Amsterdam-Mandalay - it's 2 separate tickets. 2) From Amsterdam we only have hand luggage. 3) But it has to go into the hold for Bangkok air to Mandalay, because you can only take 5 kg of hand luggage there (KLM much more)
The KLM hand luggage must therefore become Bangkok air hold luggage. If that can be arranged in the transit zone, it saves a lot of time/stress.
But if Rene Chiang Mai is right, that is not possible. Let's hope we get through passport control quickly. You don't have to pick up your luggage, so that makes a difference...
Finally a response from Bangkok Air, and from the somewhat crippled English I understand that I can check in the klm hand luggage as Bangkok hold luggage in the transit zone:
With reference to your email, we would like to inform you that if your carry on baggage exceeds than the allowance on Bangkok Airways flights, you need to contact Bangkok Airways check-in counter transfer desk in transit area to do the process directly.
If you are just only the transit passenger, you can do the process in transit area, it is no need to go through immigration at Bangkok.
Thank you for the update.
And have a nice holiday.