What time should we arrive at the airport for a noon flight from Thailand with Thai passports?

@Mitchell ******

With lounge access, there's definitely an incentive to arrive early.

Some airports, it is only 2 hours.

@Johnny *****

No, you can usually skip the long counter and just go to bag drop

@Johnny *****

Either you print it online, at a machine (many airports and some airlines don't even have manned check-in counters anymore) or at the bag drop counter.

@Mark ********

That's strange. I would have thought you would receive the other boarding pass at transit in Tokyo.

A better method would have been to fly direct. Air Canada still flies to Bangkok until mid April. It's a seasonal service.

@Paul ******

Nope. Can't check thru to Vancouver w/o new check in. Yes. Great idea. But. Now it is $2,000 return or +$650 from what we paid, I.e. $1350 each return.

@David ****

You're better off arriving 2 hours before departure and not having many people in line than 4 hours and waiting an hour to even get looked after.

@Paul ******

my wife who flew out of there today would disagree

@Stuart ********

The check-in counter opens 3 hours before. There's literally nothing that you can do if you arrive more than 3 hours before.

Online check-in or buying a VIP Pass (if available) are methods that can save a lot of time.

@Paul ******

you still need to drop-off bags

@Stuart ********

At the prices they charge? No way I'd ever eat at the airport. Most people just head straight for the gate (unless they have lounge access). Besides, with most airlines you'll be getting a meal on the plane. Eating a meal at the airport just makes you bloated.

@Paul ******

I don’t know if you’ve ever eaten on a plane but I’d prefer to chose my meal choice beforehand rather than suffer what they offer on a plane. I don’t travel first class, nor business so often the choice is shite or not available. Not grumbling about the option just saying a meal beforehand works for me. Each to their own.

@Stuart ********

I eat every meal on the plane and they're mostly perfectly fine. THAI Airways, Singapore Airlines, SWISS, Qantas and many others, they all serve quite good meals. Vietnam Airlines, just so-so but for such a short flight, might as well wait until I'm in Saigon or Hanoi and eat there.

Besides, I've already paid for my meal as part of the flight (they come included in the airfare), so spending US$20 on a sandwich at the airport doesn't appeal to me.

I agree, to each their own, but I've never known anyone to eat at the airport, except with friends staying behind in the public area, which is done more as a gesture of friendship than because you're hungry.