Getting to Thailand may be a big hurdle for some of you out there. I have flown to Thailand from California about ten times now. The first time I booked online and I was very proud of the great deal I got on my airfare. I searched for weeks to get the best deal I could find. It seemed like to me, at the time that the on line booking engines were cheaper than the airline booking engines. So I buy my ticket and I am standing in line at check in comparing airfares with other travelers. To my surprise I paid much more. A lady in the line in front of me got her air ticket for one hundred fifty dollars less than I got mine. She got her ticket from a regular travel agent. I assumed that by my inputing all of my own flight information, and doing most of the work myself, I would get a better deal. Isn't that what computers and the internet are for. The next time I booked, I booked with an agent and I got a better deal too.

In the last few years I have found the better deals have been with the airline booking websites them selves. I have been pricing my flights lately on the China Airline website. I think their website is best because they have a price table. Using their table you can see at a glance a weeks worth of departing and a weeks worth of return flights and their prices. You can also jump by a week in all directions to compare other days at a glance. I can check lots of flights in a short time and I don't have to keep reentering flight details over and over. On this trip Febuary 28, 2011 from Los Angelus to Bangkok, I paid $909 total round trip.