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Originally Posted by gargamel
The American airlines are awful for domestic flights, but their international flights aren't bad. Often, those flights will be operated by another airline, so you won't even have to be on their planes at all. Just don't go super cheap and fly through Africa, because it's much more hassle than it's worth, as I found out 2 weeks ago. Everything went smoothly until I arrived in Bangkok and had to show my proof of yellow fever vaccine since I was arriving from Ethiopia, even though I was only there for a layover. I ended up lying and saying I'd never left the airport in Addis Ababa, and that was thankfully enough to get me into Thailand, but it might not be if you get stuck with a more strict medical inspector.
Unrelated to airline prices, but you might want to consider waiting until after their elections the first week of February to go to Bangkok. The next month (particularly the city-wide shutdown on January 13 and the election on February 2) could get ugly.
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Thanks for the info, the flight I'm leaning towards is Delta, which uses Alaska Airlines for Calgary - Seattle, Delta from Seattle - Tokyo, and some Asia airline from Tokyo - Bangkok. And as mentioned I won't be going until April so no worries about election issues (landing just in time for Thai New Year)