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3 hours is general recommendation for international flights but it's overkill IMO. 2 hours is plenty.

I've seen me rush to the airport for an international flight, get there 1.5 hours before, and still have time for a couple of beers.

rule of thumb:

international departure - 2 hours
domestic - 1 hour

the BKK smoking rooms are some of the best I've experienced in that they are easy enough to sit in if you're just a softcore occasional smoker, yet very little smoke escapes the rooms into the main terminal.  

some of the other airport smoking rooms I've seen are absolutely disgusting.

AMS for example - I am shocked that a major european airport A. allows smoking indoors and B. forces smokers into those terrible little smoking booths - I'd say they are big enough for 5 people yet there's always about 10 60-a-dayer's when I'm there.  I suppose on a positive note, they are guaranteed to make smokers think twice about lighting up!

that's the beauty of HKT compared to USM for example - variety of choices for air travel.

I have flown all possible domestic airlines to BKK from HKT.

personally, my first choice would be bangkok air - they occasionally have good deals but at short notice they are unlikely to have reasonable fares.

my next choice would be airasia - the aircraft is generally new, the FA's (in my experience) are good (and sometimes fit), they fly to soo-wanna-poom and their fares can be very very reasonable if booked at the right time.  (I flew CNX-HKT for approx 1500THB in the summer whilst thai air wanted 7000THB for same day!)

then there's thai air, nok and 12go.  well, the less said about them the better.  thai are ok, nothing more, and rarely competitively priced.   nok air and 12go do the job and that's about it + they fly to no mans land aka don muang - they are real 'no frills' airlines whereas I have always found airasia to be a class above them.

NHJ, on 2010-10-18 00:47:41, said:

I got an email through offering 1950THB BKK-USM, I thought 'mm, looks like they're finally seeing sense'....til I read the 'tax excluded' smallprint.