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I lay short odds not a single individual sent a cheque to help out their favourite airline. Anyway, the real problem.now is the drop in quality employee candidates for all airlines. Many airlines lost a high percentage of experienced people due to the pandemic, mainly to them changing careers.

All those that sent AirAsia or any airline a donation to offset losses during the pandemic put you hand up. No one? Then don't complain when they recover the losses and refill their coffers. ps - among other inflationary costs there's severe disruption to new aircraft deliveries ( Boeing are having a meltdown ) and new staff bottlenecks across the worldwide airline industry. People don't realise that the worldwide pool of qualified people and high quality candidates is running dry.

You've lived a peripatetic lifestyle for decades, what makes you think this will be your forever house? You'll need to get a watertight lifetime lease on the land. As a Thai once told me when a similar deal was proposed "you can live here forever, but if I die, my brother might not have the same opinion."

It's astonishing that you have been driving in Thailand for 12 years ( 16 in my case ) and you are unaware of right of way regulations.

This was your earlier reply "AFAIK there are no rules." Utter drivel. You'll be in a hospital bed a long time before me as you don't know the driving laws in Thailand.

No it's not. It's experienced people taking into account the high risk of accident.

Another right of way issue. Motorcyclists should not be hogging the main carriageway. They are obliged to keep to the left. You'll see Thais crack up with foreigners who think they are entitled to dominate the carriageway on their Honda Click.

I like your "boat" analogy. One thing that used to drive me nuts was why it took Thais so long to turn left. So I did a bizarre thing - I asked a Thai............. "Why do you take so long to turn left?" And I received and answer so logical that I was embarrassed I hadn't thought of it myself. "Every Thai person knows that a stupid motorcyclist will try to undertake you when you slow to turn left, because at some time in the past we have been that stupid motorcyclist. So we are cautious as we expect a collision on the passenger side." Logical, and it is a common sight on Thai roads.

There are rules of right of way. Too many foreigners don't know what they are and crack up when they infringe the rules, even though they are in the wrong.

"assuming right of way" What are the rules of right of way in Thailand? The vast majority of farangs don't know what they are.

Be careful with mothballs, the smell can permeate the house.

Good thinking re the 59 days. I always book for at least one day less than my coverage. The simple reason being it allows for flight delays. Another issue is I always leave one day before my visa expires. I was caught out years ago with a flight delay ( CNX - HAT YAI ) and when I did the border run I was given a one day overstay fine. Irritating as it was out of my control.

I'll add. Those of you that have insurance via your bank account or credit card benefits, be aware that they are particularly sensitive to this issue. I told a friend of this issue and he notified AMEX of his intention to travel for 12 days longer than standard coverage. He was informed that he had zero coverage for any part of his trip.

Correct. The gist of my OP is to.ensure people realise that insurance companies won't accept you taking the risk for a few days. You are either covered for the entire trip or you are not covered at all.

Correct. However the period of travel is a different issue, as explained.

This applies to UK policies, other countries - check out this issue with your insurer. To be brief. When traveling to Thailand ( ànd other destinations ) your insurance policy starts when you leave your home country. If you have 30 day insurance cover and your flight manifest shows you are out of the country for 31 days, no part of your vacation is covered. The insurance company attitude is that you don't get to decide when the policy activates. I think we all see the sense in that. The misperception is that you have cover for part of your vacation and you take the risk for the last day ( or longer ). Wrong. Your claim will be denied as you did not declare the risk period. You have to declare the entire period you are out of your country including the day you return.

It got that bad at one notorious corner in my village that the authorities built a four hundred metre barrier to prevent this wilful nonsense, truly sick of picking up corpses.

The HoL can't kill this policy. It's already proved to be legal.

To clarify, at one time - not at that time, as by 2017 the £18,600 limit was in place

The Dutch issue was moot, the concept of a minimum income requirement was accepted unanimously. If there was no minimum income then ( at that time ) sixteen year old school kids could have married a foreign spouse and brought them to the country without any method to financially provide for them. That was absurd, and no sane person reading this thread believes that there should not be a minimum income. Neither do the courts.

You are wrong with your continual assertion that you believe it was ILLEGAL and against EHCR. The Supreme Court found the minimum income policy legal by a unanimous decision in 2017. So you can give that argument a rest.

Here's a question, which applied to a lady I used to date. Should it be legal for a sixteen year old British Muslim girl to marry a non-EU national with zero income? As we have people so certain of their legal opinions on this forum, be aware that this was decided at the UK Supreme Court. Over to you.

Once again, you are wrong. The minimum income policy has been in place for years and has not been overturned by any court.

I am up to date with UK politics. I'm also sticking to the topic, not ancient history

The NHS is exempt.