Narita Tokyo – Bangkok Thailand – New Dehli India
A good friend of mine drove me to the Narita airport and we had lunch together. My last supper in Japan was Tonkatsu. I will miss meat since Rishikesh is am vegetarian town.
I used Air Asia to Bangkok. I used Air Asia few times and I like them. Flight attendants are beautiful and I like their very red tight uniform. Although we arrived more than three hours earlier at the airport, many ppl already lined up. Even so many staff (12 ppl!) were there, the line didn’t move quickly. It was very slow because some of them were under training. Despite of this slow check-in, the flight was on time and smooth. I couldn’t understand announcements in the plane because of the strong Thai account, which made me nervous and worry if I cannot understand Indian accent during the course.
In Bangkok, immigration didn’t take long and I got out quickly. I was not really hungry but I had decided to have Pad Thai in the airport, so I did. It was 411 baht in total for Pad Thai (240 baht) bubble tea (110 baht) and after tax and service fee. It was good but not life changing and kind of expensive. Thai baht went up so much in past few years. I was shocked… Thailand might not be “cheap country” for Japanese anymore.
10 hours of transit time passed safely and quickly. Since it was late night and I didn’t have interest to go out of the airport, I planned to stay in the airport. Bangkok airport seemed quite safe. Lots of ppl sleep on the chairs and some ppl left their baggages while they go to buy food or use bathroom. I slept for 3 hours after I charged my phone. I couldn’t leave my phone alone and sleep. Outlets are everywhere but some of them were not working, I had no idea why. I bought a yogurt drink, bananas and dried mango at 7-11 before the check-in. Some stores are open 24 hours at the airport. Overall, staying at the Bangkok airport was not bad.
During the immigration, I got an email from SpiceJet, the next flight company, said my flight had revised. Departure was 3:50am originally and it’s now 5:25am. I saw the flight info and most of the SpiceJet flights were cancelled. I couldn’t understand what is going on but I was just glad my flight was a minor change. The passengers in the flight were 98% Indian people. So, of course the toilet in the plane was dirty. Blinds of the plane didn’t move smoothly. An Indian guy in front of me gave up closing the blund. The plane made weird noise when it’s departing. Announcements in the plane are easier to understand than Air Asia. One thing I was happy about was the seat because it was only myself in a row.
I don’t think I wanna take SpiceJet again. I still need to decide how to get back to Japan at the end of September, but not with SpiceJet.