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"after it revealed that it operates with a single aircraft" 
No one should be flying this airline. One overworked aircraft. Insufficient time for routine maintenance. What could possibly go wrong. 

9 hours ago, save the frogs said:

whatever his name is, his mobster nickname should be "babyface"

Clearly in to much of a hurry to type an idiotic comment to read the story. Your mobster nickname would be dopey, I imagine. 

42 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

Don't they have them in the cockpit in case of hijacking? I think they have something in a locked case.

 

I'm not sure on the protocol for opening the cockpit door. I think it stays locked in most disruptive scenarios.

Cockpit door on most airlines is not to be opened during unscheduled events even if they are killing passengers right in front of the camera. 

8 hours ago, retarius said:

When I was a young man, it was very common for thugs and bullies to go out on a Friday night to drink a gallon of beer and  have punch up. I managed to avoid the fisticuffs most of the time, but was once a victim of such a gang in an awful incident where the thuggish gang waited outside a late night drinking club for me and my mates. Fortunately I ended up with only a few bruises and a few stitches. The scars are not easily visible, one under the chin and another in my eyebrow. 

So what? This isn't about you. Need some attention? 

If over 55 go to Cambodia. 
Arrive on a normal visa. 
Rent a serviced apartment or similar for two months
Get a 12 month retirement extension on your origina 30-day visa through an agency. 
Get a certificate of residency from the Sangkat.
Open a bank account in and download the appropriate app. 
Send a shed load of money to Cambodia and get 8.4% pa, paid monthly on a 12 mth TD. Pay 6% residence tax on the interest. Have the interest paid into your savings account linked to the app. Have your O/S pension paid into the same savings account. 
Use Wise to transfer money to yourself in Thailand (for free if on the last day of the month). Use the bank's virtual Visa, Mastercard, or UnionPay card to pay for things in Thailand. 
 

On 1/11/2024 at 8:50 AM, lopburi3 said:

Here is a list on US Embassy site of several experienced services with costs listed (about 30k for local cremation and paperwork/services).  Obviously you must make next of kin aware of what you want.  They can work directly with such service and should not be any issues.

https://th.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/death-of-a-u-s-citizen/#collapse5

 

Click on financial arrangements

Only one of those four lists open and I doubt you're going to pay a Bt3,000 for shipping 150kgs corpse to the USA. 

That's not how you're supposed to use a gun. 

Is Drew Noyes back in town? 

11 hours ago, swm59nj said:

I was told by a nurse I knew from a well known hospital in Bangkok.  She said private hospitals are required to accept serious emergency cases.  Such as the type of emergency in this story.  If the patient has insurance or not.  
Near where I lived in Bangkok.  I passed by the scene of an accident.  It appeared a motorbike driver had an accident with a car.  The motorbike driver was laying on the ground injured.  An ambulance responded from the closest hospital which was a newly opened private hospital. 

She is correct. This blew up several years ago and at the time private hospitals were instructed that they must accept all emergency cases and provide life-saving treatment. It will be interesting to see what Thai lies are told to cover this situation. The hospital should end up sued, but it will probably be just another Thai grovelling and flower ceremony.

I think you should set up a card table out the front of Makro with signs alerting people to this massive extortion and collect signatures of people similarly so outraged to present to Makro management demanding they stop raising their prices. Once a week rallies with placards and a convoy of cars driving in circles around the car park. 

Never mind, Phue Thai has great experience at managing floods. Look at the outstanding job they did in 2011 ???? 
 

On 9/22/2023 at 3:50 PM, ukrules said:

Almost every foreigner who dies in Thailand has an autopsy performed on them before they are released for repatriation.

 

It's not something you need to request - it's mandatory unless some certain conditions are met - like you're in hospital under the care of a Doctor and being treated for something.

 

More information here : https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-to-do-after-a-british-person-dies-in-thailand

 

So there will be a lot more information made available including the condition of the guy when he was found and all the other info like exact cause of death, etc.

 

Yes. But they're not ordinarily done at the Central Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS) 

On 9/25/2023 at 11:33 AM, Hugh Cow said:

Thankyou for answering a question with a question stating the obvious. I have things I obviously want to take. I would appreciate a constructive answer rather than more questions thanks.

 The mother can request an autopsy be performed at the Central Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS) via the embassy. 

On 9/17/2023 at 11:49 AM, ezzra said:

The interest rates Thai banks gives you on long terms deposit are laughable and insulting to one's money, something like 1.5% p.a. in Australia i get 4.8% p.a. which is more like it.

4.8% is good for Australia. Or jump over to Cambodia and get 8.25% (-6% resident or 14% nonresident tax) pa, paid monthly. I pulled everything except for $0.30 and $1.25 out of my Australian accounts when they asked me to re-verify my identity and jump through a bunch of hoops. Even though they said they would pay for the notary, it's money down there and of no use to me up here. I pulled all my Super out about 30 years ago when they were performing crap. I saw a couple (three I think) recently that haven't been performing too badly.   

On 9/17/2023 at 1:53 PM, Gecko123 said:

I know this is off-topic and I apologize to other readers, but a while back you posted about a phlegm problem you were experiencing.

 

I don't have any answers for the root cause of the problem, but my advice would be to take a close look at your indoor air quality, especially around your work station and in the kitchen, especially if you use cooking gas. I recall your ham radio hobby and that you teach on-line. It's been my observation that electronics and other mechanical devices can degrade air quality significantly, and there has been a lot in the news lately about how cooking gas degrades air quality in the home. 

21 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

That will be interesting.

Whilst it is all flights, might have some extra fun here at Samui airport.

It is an article in the Thaiger today.

That will probably stop my 45 minute journey from home to on the plane. Boarding will definitely slow down.

 

Might help if you could read past the headline; for surveying purposes on September 15, and this procedure will continue until October 31.

It's to ensure that the tables they use for calculating "average" passenger weight currently reflect the "average" weight of passengers for balancing purposes. There have been fatal crashes from out of date tables being used. 

@bunnydrops Total fantasy. I remember being weighed along with my luggage in Africa in the 90s (for exactly the same reason - aircraft balance)

Dumpier and dirtier, but a good option for some still who are concerned about more things than the price of a beer.
No political protests like coming to Thailand soon ???? 
Plus
8.25% pa interest on 12 month term deposits, paid monthly. Or 8.5% paid on maturity
No 90-day reports
No seasoning money or minimum bank account balances for retirees.
Oversupply in the condo market so better purchasing power than in Thailand. 
However, 
Most FMCG and a lot of fresh produce come from Thailand so more expensive than Thailand. 
Fly to India for good quality medical at affordable prices, same as if in Thailand. 
Street food is possibly toxic and best avoided. It's all crap anyway. 
 

29 minutes ago, Olmate said:

..... native title claims!       Can you explain why native folk need to claim there land? 

No mate. Couldn't be arsed. Let them claim any part of the country that has economic value or improvement and lets just give it to them. Especially if they're whiter than me, but claim to be 1% native. 

The referendum should have been two questions IMO. Greasy Albanese decided to go all or nothing. I suspect it will be nothing and set the cause for First Nation people back at least a decade. 

If passed it would see the establishment of a government funded "advisory" group. A government funded advisory group can rapidly become a government funded anti-government lobby group if it doesn't get what it wants and the government would be obliged to continue funding it, even if it was white anting the government of the day.

Meanwhile the ridiculous number of outstanding native title claims in NSW alone shows that this referendum is ill conceived similar to the reparations movement in the USA. This is about massive redistribution of wealth and assets and continuing the trend globally to destroy the middle class.