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I would start the process immediately if I were you.

Today (5th) Thai time. I was surprised there was no announcement on the 4th. If a decision is made I would expect it by 15:00 Thai time. Technically rebooking etc can be down in a couple of days. There may be issues of changed details with existing issued Passes. You know what Thai bureaucracy is like. How you rebook your flights is another issue. Do you take a hit and cancel the existing booking and make a new one or rely on the airline to move the day ?

Basically the only way to enter Thailand would be through the Phuket sandbox after Jan 10. At the time of writing it is a proposal only put out by Anutin's ministry. Ithink its a certainty that Test and Go will remain suspended until February, at least. The issue is with the 90,000(?) people with approved Thailand Pass QR codes. The government has already said it will honour the approved passes and also publicly said, last week(?), that the rumours about Jan 10 arrivals cut-off were not true. Anutin possibly started these rumours along with his stating he was prepared to become the next PM is Prayuth stood down. I got a feeling that there is not a lot of love between the two and perhaps the compromise would be to allow the issued Pass holders to continue to arrive or a later cut off. I suspect we will find out later today after the CCSA meeting.

With Xmas and New Year holidays disrupting the reporting and collating of stats, it will probably be Thursday or Friday before the actual impact of Omicron can be assessed as far as the UK is concerned.

I thought it was going to be transparent to the traveller. I can still remember going to the booth at Don Muang in the 80s to pay this fee. One could always ask a tourist, if you can find one. Probably costs more to administer than revenue received this holiday season.

and it follows that Thai will be the most profitable airline in the world.

Its interesting that its nearly 16:00 and no word has come out. I suspect Test and Go will remain suspended however the main argument may be over those pre-approved to enter Thailand after 10 Jan and particularly the number of Thai citizens concerned. The mechanics of flights, PCR tests, hotel booking and allowing the validity of bringing Thailand Passes forward in time is not easy.

So as I read it, my wife who is arriving from LHR on dear old Thai on Jan 12 and has already got her Thailand Pass, will just require a second PCR date after the one she has on arrival. I also assume that when they work things the details she will require an stay at her hotel for extra money. The rumour is 5-7 days.

Trying to entice Son Heung-Min to Buriram FC for next season ?

On a UK private facebook group I'm on for travel to Thailand, 90% people who ask querires are on O or O-A visa and for travel from the end of November onwards. I also wonder as the Thailand Pass was not active until the 1 Nov how many of these arrivals were on already obtained COEs. I would would have thought the first real Thailand Pass wouldn't have arrived until this week.

Just a reminder that Chinese vaccines are not recognised. A course means 2 shots of those mentioned below (including a mix) except for the Janssen which is a single dose vaccine. Approved vaccines You must have had a complete course of one of the following vaccines at least 14 days before you arrive in England: Oxford/AstraZeneca Pfizer BioNTech Moderna Janssen The day you have your final dose does not count as one of the 14 days. Formulations of these vaccines, such as AstraZeneca Covishield, AstraZeneca Vaxzevria and Moderna Takeda, also qualify as approved vaccines.

Khao Yai is not far. 3 decent waterfalls there. I've been to 2 of them. Haew Narok is not for people with walking difficulties and that last staircase is really steep. Haew Narok Waterfall (น้ำตกเหวนรก)[edit] Haew Narok is a waterfall formed from Tha Dan canal. It is known as one of the tallest and most beautiful waterfalls of Khao Yai National Park. Originally, before the Prachin Buri - Khao Yai road was cut, it is only accessible on foot and would take at least 6 hours to make it there, but after the finishing of the Prachin Buri - Khao Yai road, it is easily accessible by cars since the road passes near Haew Narok Waterfall. There is a parking lot just 1 kilometer away from the waterfall. Upon reaching the waterfall, there is a staircase going down about 50 meters, which is quite narrow and steep. In the rainy season, there will be a lot of rain water but in the dry season, there will be few to no water falling down the cliff. Pha Kluai Mai Waterfall (น้ำตกผากล้วยไม้)[edit] Pha Kluai Mai Waterfall gets its water source from Huai Lam Takhong. To get there, you have to park your car at Pha Kluai Mai tent yard and walk on. The waterfall gets its name from the abundance of orchids present there. Haew Su Wat Waterfall (น้ำตกเหวสุวัต)[edit] This waterfall gets its source from the Huai Lam Takhong flowing through a 25 meter high cliff. The basin of the waterfall is suitable for swimming, however, the national park prohibits swimming due to fear of turbulent flood waters.[citation needed] In the rainy season, the falling water will make a scattered mist of water vapor. In the dry season, the waterfall will recede, revealing a shortcut into a small cave under the waterfall cliff.[citation needed] One urban legend reports that Haew Su Wat was named after a thief named Suwat who, in order escape government authority, jumped into the basin. However, there's no verifiable proof of this actually happening so the origin of the name is currently unknown.

Correct but when you look at the infection figures its primarily secondary school children and adults in the 30-49 age range, parents ? Deaths are being attributed to mainly non-vaccinated although they are, I think compared to France, still too high. A covid death in the UK is counted if a person had been tested positive in the previous 28 days and not if the main cause was due to covid. So an asymptomatic test positive person will end up being called a covid death. In the UK town (130,000 pop) we have returned to, the last covid death was back in March. Masks are worn by many people but I suspect we are not the norm. You'll have no argument from me that France dealt with covid far better than the UK. Just look at this mornings UK press articles on a parliamentary report on how Johnson's government dealt with it last March.

I don't disagree with you but back then the lack of drainage was cited. Look at the history of Bangkok or should I say the "Venice of the east". Monsoons were very more regular back then and floods were treated with a "mai pen rai". Yes drainage was finally built and look at the 2011 Bangkok floods caused by the drainage channels being blocked up with rubbish. Roads are still built without any reference to drainage. Even aircraft suffered, remember the Qantas B747 hydroplaning at Don Muang in 1999. Forward planning and then the maintenance of any infrastructure has rarely been part Thai psyche.

The first itme I travelled to Bangkok I had seen pictures of severe flooding and people getting snake bites. The news report said it was an annual occurrence. Luckily for me when I got there the waters had rescinded. That was 1983.

Amazing Thailand !

The A380s were ordered for the LHR and FRA routes. Thai was making a killing on them. In between ordering and delivery we saw the rise of the ME3. The problem was Thai didn't know how to respond to them. Also service had gone down. Emirates simply took over Europe to SE Asia with a cheaper and far better product which was exactly how they were promoting themselves. The A345s were pure vanity and with Malaysian they thought they could compete with Singapore on the non-stop to the US. The problem was SIngapore has/had plenty of business traffic to the US. Thai, and Malaysian, didn't and never had. I believe Singapore did manage to break even until the fuel prices rose to became seriously uneconomic for the A. Even Singapore had to eventually give them up.

A major reason is the efficacy of the Chinese vaccines against Delta and, as far as I can see, no formal study into mixing other vaccines with them. At least the UK did formal trials using Pfizer, Moderna and AZ. I have not seen any reports of mixing vaccine trials in Thailand so I might be wrong.

This could make Don Muang and Swampy more pleasant places if enough Chinese use it.

Should go back to General Prem and his vanity project of merging Thai International with Thai Airways Corporation, all because he was jealous of Singapore Airlines success. To be fair MAS, Garuda and Philippine have all gone the same way as Thai for similar reasons.