I would rarely give high mark to a flight that was four hours late and involved temporary rerouting to another airport, but China Airlines handled this unexpected weather diversion excellently. 8 hours in a rather cramped economy seat for a flight time of a little over 3:45 minutes is a bit hard on the body. But bad weather can strike at any time, In this case, the captain attempted to land at BKK in a storm and had to abort, After going around he tried from the other direction, but the storm over BKK had hardly moved and so it was a second aborted landing. We were then advised we would have to fly up to Chiang Mai, land there and wait it out while remaining seated. The crew were excellent. Clearly there was no additional food on board (in any case, the late lunch had been more than sufficient) but abundant soft drinks were handed around. An hour for refuelling at Chiang Mai and we were on our way back to BKK, this time with a perfect landing. As we disembarked, no-one was complaining about the extra flight time.
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