Transit in Bangkok with an "eticket" after jetstar arrival

I am arriving Jetstar with then 3 hours connection using Turkish to Istanbul. Seeing Jetstar are a one point airline, and seeing my Turkish booking is an online eticket. Do I have to exit immigration and check in with Turkish and then re-enter, thus having to pay departure tax and also painfully having to get my passport stamped etc?

 

I am told that Turkish do not have an agreement with Thailand to pay the tax with the ticket.

 

This is not a domestic transfer, its an international one, so I will have to collect my luggage, having more than carry on unfortunately. This is the point that I am thinking in that Jetstar do not forward lugagge. last year I had to connect with a Qantas flight from Singapore to Melbourne and used Jetstar to get from Bangkok to Singers.. Only 45 mins transit and I had to refuse to check in my carry on luggage in bangkok which was some 5 kgs overweight as they make you go through imigrataion in Singapore, collect the bags, then check back in and go through emigration. Just made it as it was. But Singapore seems better set up to deal with ticket collection and allocation in transit from what i can see anyway

 

Thanks for all that. I do not understand why luggage collection is after immigration in airports. Can anyone enlighten me as to the reasoning? It would seem logical that a persons belongings would be better accompanying them. I am amazed that lugage does not often seem to be stolen from carousels

 

Actually travellers transiting through Bangkok may like to note that i bought a ticket to Shanghai via Bangkok from Melbourne with a day between connections a couple of months back .. I planned to go into Bangkok and stay o/n, relax, there before going to Shanghai .. it cost me the airport tax of 700Thbht ( not an enormous amount) but the hassle of now having to go to through an unknown proceedure to pay it was disconcerting ( plus having a Thbht cash) .. I was advised I should have stayed in the airport hotel inside the airport..but on the return leg with 2 days stay in Bangkok I had no exit tax!!. I think Thailand should consider giving free of airport tax, exit passes lasting at least 24 hrs.. The taxi fares and hotel charges etc in my opinion, would easily give them extra revenue to recover any loss in taxes.

 

I have asked Turkish in Sydney by email.. they did reply (thks Turkish as Malaysian never did last year when my phone was "lost" in the First Class coat cupboard btw Attk and KL ) but unfortunately I was not intelligent enough to understand them ...