Theairplaneguy4ever's video: Thai Smile TG710 : Flying from Bangkok to Chiang Mai

Flying Thai Airways' regional hybrid low cost subsidiary, Thai Smile, to the cultural capital of Thailand, Chiang Mai, domestically. It was a great flight on Thai Smile, with just a few kinks for improvement. Today's flight time was 1 hr and 10 mins with actual flying time being close to 55 mins. Scheduled departure time was 10 minutes past seven am (07:10), local time, with scheduled arrival time being 08:20 in the morning. Departure was from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport. My seat for this flight was 48K on the right side of the plane, just behind the wing. The aircraft for this flight was one of Thai Smile's new A320-200's, HS-TXC, named, "Nong Bua Lam Phu". Thai Smile was just 200BHT cheaper than mainline Thai which operated another flight in the morning to Chiang Mai. But, Thai Smile was my choice because it was a new airline rather than it being cheaper than Thai. The seat was quite comfortable, though not top notch. The legroom was surprisingly okay, considering Thai Smile has a dense 174Y configuration on its A320s. The IFE was switched off while in the air and was only used while on the ground. A couple of music videos were shown on the IFE. The main disappointment however, was the meal, which smelt so horrible, that I avoided it altogether. Thankfully, the crew were great though and helped to uplift the mood despite this. Seat 8 Meal 6.5 IFE 7 Crew 9 Experience rating : 7.6/10 If you'd like to read more on this flight, please head over to this link to read the full written TR : http://airlinersindia.s4.bizhat.com/airlinersindia-ftopic13373.html In my opinion its better to pay a bit more and get a lot more by flying on mainline Thai on this route. Though Thai Smile claims to be an LCC, it's fares just do not show it and were nearly double that of standard LCCs like AirAsia or Nok Air on the same route, hence I did not classify Thai Smile as an LCC opposed to a full service carrier like its parent Thanks for watching! Music in the video is created and owned by me. I have full rights to use it in this video. Like the music? Catch the full version here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kobJaHvAan0