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I was just searching for my first trip to Thailand, and one of the more economical flights was on Ethiopian Airlines. Anyone ever hear of them or have experience???

That's a novel airline if you are flying from the US, I hope that means you found the fare as a codeshare or else you will be flying Dulles - Rome - Addis Ababa - Bangkok.

i have moved to nigeria recently and i travel to east africa alot as well as to india and dubai.....i was using emirates but i have been downgraded kicked off the flight too many times....so about two weeks ago enroute to the china fair i went to bangkok on ethiopian...i was on bussiness class and there are no complaints no delays seats were as comfortable as one can expect paying 800-900 dollars less than emirates......

however i went on ethiopian economy once to india and let me tell you it was a nightmare....flight was delayed in addis overnight so they gave us hotel rooms to share with other passengers i ended up paying for my own room....there was a pilgramge to mecca on my flight and there was nearly a riot at the airport it was a total disaster where no one knew what was going on.....

it will be an adventure and if u are delayed in addis good luck mate!!

I heard the seats are half the size of normal seats.

Ive searched the cheapest fares day and night, and I have not once seen Ethiopia come up as the cheapest.

Pending where you live, Cathay, EVA, China, or Korean will almost 100% sure be the cheapest.

I read that many of these smaller airlines (mostly in Africa and Asia) buy up all the OLD planes that US carriers have leased for like 20-30 years. Has anybody heard of this? If so, I don't think I'd want to be flying on a Boeing built in the 70's.

Most of the "small" airlines Ive flown in Asia have very new planes, much newer then you would find anywhere here.

But I have seen some of the random domestic airlines, and Id put some of their planes on the older side of things.

Probably a strong case of you get what you pay for

Historically, Cathay Pacific and Eva have been the cheapest, for me. However, the last two trips were on Thai Airways, and they were the cheapest that I found. The best thing is the Thai flights are direct LAX-BKK-LAX. Awesome! late night departure and early morning arrival. You can easily be somewhere else, like Pattaya, Chaing Mai, Samui or Phuket by afternoon.

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