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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Report to immigration at the airport
Reader question: Report to immigration at the airport
Dear readers,
Next May we (my Thai wife and I) are going to pay a family visit to the Netherlands. On return we fly via Amsterdam-Bangkok to Chiang Mai.
My question: Is it possible to report to the immigration office at Chiang Mai International Airport instead of in Bangkok? This of course to avoid the long queues in Bangkok. Or do we always have to report to the first immigration office of the airport where you land in Thailand?
Please share your findings/advice.
Regards,
Wim
After arrival in BKK, walk to transfer to Chiang Mai. (Follow signs). Then you automatically run into a small passport control. But that is NOT the passport control of the infamous queues. This is for transfer users only. No queue, yesterday it only took five minutes.
If you can label the luggage, you have to go through passport control in Bangkok. But not with the "big" crowd. In Chiang Mai it is not possible to do passport control. Only if you depart from Chiang Mai or have a direct flight to Chiang Mai.
You just keep walking. Above is a sign with the names of Thailand's international airports. Chiang Mia, Chiang Rai, Phuket, etc. You follow them on the treadmills. It's a long way.
Then you will arrive at the transfer desks, where you can get the boarding pass for Chiang Mai from the airline you are flying with to Chiang Mai. Or if you already have a boarding pass, show it there.
A dozen meters further you have two passport control counters. It is rarely busy there. Maybe one or two people in front of you. When you go through that passport control, you immediately enter the “shop” part of “domestic flights”. A little further you have a number of restaurants.
Please note that you can only continue labeling with Thai Airways and Bangkok Airways. If you fly to Chiang Mai with Bangkok Airways, it must be on a “ticket” with the international flight. With Thai Airways that is not necessary.
Don't fly with the "price fighters", because then you have to go to Don Muang. Except "Smile". It flies on "Swampie". But with “Smile” you cannot continue labeling and you have to collect your luggage in Bangkok and with the “mob” through passport control in Bangkok.
I leave for Chiang Mai in October, my hold luggage will be labeled from Amsterdam to Chiang Mai. Will my luggage arrive in Chiang Mai in the domestic area? or do I have to pick it up in the International area?
That's all Thai. You will be given a sticker so that they know in Chiang Mai that you have to go to the international arrivals. In Bangkok you have to be careful not to stand in the big crowd for passport control, but follow the signs to the transfers. At a certain point you will come across a checkpoint where you have to show your passport and ticket. I've never had to wait there.
In Chiang Mai you have to walk to the international arrivals hall because your luggage will arrive there. You still have to go through customs in Chiang Mai with your luggage. Everything goes very smoothly and smoothly.
I think if you have a connecting domestic flight, you don't have to go through the same immigration where the big crowd goes through. Recently had a connecting flight to Phuket and then I was guided somewhere to a side of Suvernabhumi, where it was nice and quiet and with the additional advantage you are still received with the Thai mile instead of those grumpy people at the main passage.
William,
That is not possible to my knowledge. But if you have a connecting flight from Bangkok to Chaing Mai, with a company that labels your luggage to Chiang Mai, you go through a separate quiet immigration at local flights at Suvarnabhumi Airport and you are done in no time. In most cases, this is only possible with a connecting flight from Thai Airways. But if you book a ticket with an airliner from Europe to Chiang Mai, it will be fine anyway.
And next year, Qatar Airways will fly directly - of course via Doha - to Chiang Mai, 3 times a week.
Hallo,
If you take a flight in Europe within Schengen, you will not have an extensive passport control. If you take a flight leaving or entering the Schengen area, you must pass an extensive passport control.
The same applies in Thailand:
You will arrive in Bangkok with an “International Flight” from Amsterdam and depart with a “Domestic Flight” to Chiang Mai. The terminals for both types of flights are separate. So you will have to go through immigration when you arrive in Thailand in Bangkok.
Also keep in mind that you will (most likely) have to collect your hold luggage in Bangkok and check in again for the flight to Chiang Mai.
Have a nice trip!
Dear Wim,
When you fly KLM you could continue to Chiang Mai with Bangkok Airways, because then you can label your luggage to Chiang Mai at Schiphol. Means that you are referred to the Domestic flights and can ignore the Grand Immigrations! KLM and Bangkok Airways are cooperating in this.
Incidentally, Bangkok Airways has almost the same prices as the "price fighters", success.
That's not quite right. If you have booked your flight to Chiang Mai in one go with the same company, your luggage will be labeled and you will not have to go through immigration in Bangkok. Chiang Mai is an international airport. Your luggage will then also go through automatically.
If you have booked the flight to Bangkok separately and then the flight to Chiang Mai elsewhere, you will have to collect your luggage in Bangkok, pass through immigration, and check in again for Chiang Mai. If you know that you are flying to Chiang Mai, it is always better to work with one booking. Saves a lot of hassle.
This only applies to international airports. I don't know exactly what they are. Lampang, where I live, for example, is not. In that case you always have to arrange immigration and luggage yourself in Bangkok.
If you book it as 1 ticket AMS-BKK-CNX, when you check in at AMS you will receive a boarding pass for the flight to Chiang Mai (CNX), your luggage is tagged to CNX and on Suvanarbumi you go to the transfer area, there your boarding pass is checked and you walk through to a usually quiet immigration. Please note that in Chiang Mai you walk to the international section to pick up your suitcase and that any collectors know this too. You will often receive a sticker at the transfer desk to stick on your clothing in a visible place so that the staff will send you in the right direction upon arrival at CNX.
If you book separate tickets and the companies work together, your luggage may be checked through, but you will have to get a boarding pass at the transfer desk at Suvanarbumi. It is important that you can show your luggage tag so that they accept your bag on the connecting flight. The rest is as above.
If you book separate tickets from companies that do not cooperate, there is nothing else to do than go to Suvanarbumi immigration, collect your suitcase from the belt and check in again with the other company. The advantage of options 1 and 2 is that if you are allowed to take 30 kg on the long flight, it will also be taken on BKK-CNX. With separate tickets, your suitcase may be too heavy for BKK-CNX.
You may be able to avoid overcrowded immigration upon arrival from Europe via a short route outlined above, but the problem is with the luggage. You want it labeled from your european port of departure but zone but chiang mail and congested from chiang mail but your european port of arrival. but Then you have to do the ticket from chiang mail to the netherlands and vice versa from the netherlands to chiangmai in a booking. Regret Dan the budget airlines.Klm ethihad emirates and a few other airlines have an agreement with bangkok airways. If you buy your ticket amsterdam chiang mai and vice versa there you go through customs in chiang mail and immigration you get a sticker cci or something similar and you are guided through a special route to security. Piece of cake .!
Eh for someone who is married to a Thai who enters Thailand with a Thai passport. Simply make the woman walk to the right side for Thai residents. I always do and have never been denied. Oh well I always have a priority sticker on my rollator. But see her doing more mixed couples. Oh I have a visa before going to Thailand. It takes me a total of 6 hours from Eindhoven to arrange that in advance.
Serious. You are going to travel next May and you are already worried about the queue at immigration?
I was through it in 3 minutes this morning. They just closed 2 and we were referred to 1. No waiting could walk straight to the counter.
In any case, if you don't have a flight where your luggage is labeled, it doesn't matter because otherwise you will just be waiting for your luggage.
May next year then the high season is also a bit over so it will be quieter then.
We have been flying with eva air for years. Amsterdam changmai the luggage is labeled to changmai. In changmai you go to the baggage belt via arrival internationally.
Qatar Airways will fly direct to Chiang Mai (from Doha) 7 times a week from December 2017, 4.
So Amsterdam-Doha-Chiang Mai.
So super easy and no stress about Immigration in Bangkok and/or labeling luggage.
Hopefully you haven't booked any tickets yet