Avis du vol entre Ubon et Bangkok en classe Economique avec Thai Lion Air

After having spend some great time with my parents in-law in Sisaket, it was now time for me and my wife to head over to our next destination. Due to the pregnancy of my wife, choices were somewhat limited and we wanted to head to a more quiet and laid back place, so our choice ended up by heading to both Kiriwong and Khanom. In order to get to those places, we decided to find ourselves a ticket from Ubon Ratchathani to Nakhon Si Thammarat and rent a car from there.

As Nakhon si Thammarat airport is only served by three airlines with about nine daily flights to Bangkok Don Mueang, it meant that choices for us were limited in order to find a reasonable ticket on an one-way itinerary that would bring us into NST at a reasonable time like late afternoon giving us only Thai Lionair or Thai AirAsia as a reasonable option. Despite being a bit more expensive, we decided to opt for the latter one as SL gave us a later start with the shortest wait in DMK and would bring us into NST at around 3 PM if no delay.

On the day of the flight we decided to leave Sisaket around 7 AM with about an hour to drive to Ubon in weather that wasn't really pleasing.

Luckily the road wasn't as busy as it sometimes can get and we were pulling into the airport around 8 am and we made our way to the drop off section for our rental car to be dropped off.

As I had a full guarantee on the car, the drop off of the car went quick and smoothly and we made it to our check in kiosk to check in for our flight to DMK. By now I wasn't actually sure whether SL offered the luggage to be transfered automatically or whether we had to collect our luggage again and to check them in again as it's not quite common for low-cost carriers in my experience to have connecting flights.

Around 8.15 am, we decided to grab our boarding pass via the ticketing machine before dropping off our luggage. In the end it was of no use as the ground attendant who was handling our drop off eventually gave us new boarding cards again, although I noticed that the departure time for our second flight has changed to a later departure time… Weird as I have never received any mail regarding a change of departure time nor did SL's website speak of any delay for the 2nd flight.

Eventually we dropped off our luggage with the friendly ground attendant at one of their counters and made our way to the domestic departures where our boarding passes were checked thoroughly by two trainees before letting us pass to security. 

It took less than five minutes to clear security without any hassle and we were now dropped off in the departures hall which doesn't really offer much other than a few coffee shops and a very limited amount of souvernir shops, though it offers plenty of seating. As we didn't have any breakfast as of yet, my wife and me decided to grab a coffee from the Black Canyon coffeeshop in the back.

As Ubon Ratchathani has only two jetbridges and already being occupied by two other flights when our aircraft arrived, it meant that we had to go to our aircraft by foot and the rain still didn't disappear though. Luckily enough the flight did arrive on time despite the heavy rains and boarding was called right on time via gate 3.

As we were one of the last few passengers to board our aircraft it was nice to see ground staff handing us umbrellas for the short walk to our aircraft.

The aircraft that was going to bring us over to Bangkok Don Mueang was HS-LUU. HS-LUU is a 12.7 year old (at time of flying) Boeing 737-800 that was newly delivered to Lionair in September 2012 before being transfered to it's sister company Thai Lionair in May 2017.

Upon embarking the aircraft we were kindly greeted by two friendly flight attendants and with just a short walk to our seat as we were sitting in the front cabin with this flight. Seat 04A offers decent legroom though for a LCC Carrier with some nicely padded seats.

The view of the seats in the opposite row of mine.

Plus a cabin view.

The aircraft is also equiped with individual air vents, reading lights and a call to flight attendant button as is standard with most airliners. I must admit that these newer air vents are actually worser compared to the old ones as the wind flow is much weaker.

Pushback was about three minutes ahead of our scheduled departure time and only five minutes past the scheduled we were rolling for an easterly departure in some wet conditions.

Once seatbelt signs were turned off, I opened the tray table in front of me which was cleaned properly.

The literature you can find in the seat pocket contains a safety card, sickbag and a Buy-on-Board Menu. The BoB isn't overly huge and I can't say that I've seen many people ever using them on SL's domestic routes as it is basically just a very few snacks and some cup noodle for prices that are about 3-4 times as expensive as one would be able to buy them in a local 7/11.

While the window offers you general a good view of the engine and wing, the view was somewhat limited as we had this kind of misty weather all along our route to DMK.

And about fifty minutes into our flight we were already in approach to RWY 21R.

And with a short ride to our gate means that we arrived about 12 minutes ahead of our schedule.

Disembarkation followed soon after and we decided to exit the airside given that my wife and me wanted to have some breakfast at DMK's food court. Luckily enough we didn't need to grab our luggage as they were automatically been transfered to the next flight.

Thanks HS-LUU for bringing us to DMK.