madmitch

Meantime British Airways announce they won't be reinstating their LHR-BKK flights until next year at the earliest. 

How many other airlines have taken a similar stance or are flying fewer planes into Thailand?

Trolley dolly? Air hostess?

Use terms like this in an article in the UK and the translator would be "cancelled"!

Good to see that "wokeness" hasn't hit Thailand! 

Try any of the outlet places, e.g. 71 Outlet or the shops at the Premium Outlet Mall.

Has someone at TAT bought a Buzzwords Dictionary? Or is an "Amazing" feature of the famous TAT calculator?

You don't need to be an underwriter to realise that 30-odd baht is not going to give a lot of coverage. It's still unclear what's being covered but those of you thinking it'll replace the need for travel insurance might need to think again.

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Phukets had all the ace cards since tourism was re-started with the sandbox scheme...

 

Small hotels didn't. It was almost impossible for guesthouses and small opertors to get SHA+ approval.

And with large hotels selling rooms at a fraction of their normal rates they simply didn't get any customers.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

They just went with a promotion from Thailand Post that said charges for EMS start at 25 baht Monday to Saturday and only 19 baht on Sundays. 

If only the post offices opened on a Sunday!

1 hour ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

No they're not...

Yes. One exceptionally rich family missing from that list.

He disclosed that, during the peak of the pandemic, a number of insurance companies rushed to pay compensation to their clients, in order to ease their financial burdens, and examination of the documents filed for compensation was, therefore, more cursory than usual.

I read this initially as to ease the insurance companies' financial burdens but now realise it mean the Insured Persons.

This is odd, considering the type of insurance, which didn't pay out based on expenses incurred but a fixed amount to anyone who had proof of developing covid-19.

And, having worked in insurance most of my life, I don't know any insurers who have ever rushed to pay claims without doing a proper assessment.....up until now!!

2 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

There already are 5 breweries I know of.....3 Bears, 72 Brewing Company, Ambrosia, Bannok Beer and Beat Brewing...

There are a lot more than that but most of them brew outside of Thailand to get around the laws here, then of course the extortionate import tax is paid.

3 Bears is a good example. Their beer was brewed to the Thai owner's recipe in Taiwan and imported into Thailand. It was just too expensive and the pub didn't survive very long.

They could quite easily drop the emergency decree if they wanted to. With a good enough reason, i.e. a worsening of the covid situation, they could simply reinstate it.

But they don't want to and we know the reason why!

I was very surprised to be able to use contactless when I was last in Thailand, admittedly only at Big C and Tesco Lotus. Here in the UK buskers in the street have contactless payment machines, as do individuals that might accept tips such as tour guides. Thailand is way, way behind but the comment above regarding gogo girls might not be out of the question in the future!

I think the OP relates to the use of Shopee, Lazada and the various sellers on Facebook to which quite a few Thais are addicted!

I thought I read a short time ago that the Thai monopolies commission has rejected this.

Maybe they work purely on an advisory basis, to be overturned by the Government to select whatever suits the big families.

12 hours ago, webfact said:

However, we have six more macaques and one gibbon to rescue

Won't they be keeping the macaques to farm the coconuts?????

7 hours ago, phetpeter said:

Each city should set up a department that allots tickets forsale,  only to registered disabled, who inturn must sell at the correct price...80 baht.  If found to sell wholesale to others then they lose the right right. There is a legal system that vendor selling overpriced tickets can be banned. Each seller purchases the tickets at a trade price allowing them to recieve a profit which I believe is about 10 baht per ticket sold, so every 2 weeks a vendor with a 1000 tickets would make 20k per month. Not bad for sitting around. Those who jumped on the band wagon, buy at 80baht sell at 100baht, make double that!  and that only on a 1000 tickets! think about a high traffic location and incresed sales. ....Why am I working so hard?

But they do sell batches onto others at 80 baht, illegal or not, thereby retaining their profit, and those sub-sellers have to mark up in order to make any profit at all.