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5 minutes ago, saengd said:
I was referring to the single ticket aspect which changed fairly recently, the words in red.
That is a bit different to saying it was not possible.
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6 hours ago, saengd said:
Yes, agreed. As said previously: I started off believing that transit at BKK was possible, I even recall dong so myself. But then I was persuaded by a poster who claimed to be "airline personnel" that it was no longer possible, I posted that discussion earlier. I then checked further and see there are transit facilities albeit I don't know any airline that uses them any more, even Bangkok Airways seems to have forced everyone into transfers.
I would take what you were told with a grain of salt, and your comment is not in line with what appears on the BK airways website.
Restrictions:
Passengers are required to remain in the transfer areas at Suvarnabhumi (BKK) or Phuket (HKT) airports.
- Only single tickets containing the ongoing segment(s) will qualify for Check Through service.
- Passenger with special conditions (eg. Unaccompanied Minors) are not eligible for Check Through service.
- Passengers who have not obtained their onward boarding pass(es) due to system or ticket problems shall recheck-in at the transfer desk of the ongoing carrier.
- Bangkok Airways will issue boarding pass(es) for passengers connecting with the following participating airlines (operating carriers) listed in the tables below.When passenger travel with two separate tickets, Bangkok Airways will no longer through-check passenger and bags to the end destinations on the secondary separate ticket. Please see more details in Separate Ticket Policy
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On 2/20/2020 at 10:04 PM, theoldgit said:
Yes, as I indicated earlier the decision making for visit visas has already moved to Sheffield, it will move to Croydon later in the year.
"in theory, be any changes to the turn around times.
Visa vingettes will be attached to successful applicants passports in Bangkok, as they are now.The turn around times do seem to be the same, my wife's application was submitted just a couple of days earlier than last year and came back in exactly the same number of days.
The vingettes, although still done in Bangkok have changed appearance, no longer titled visa but UK Entry Clearance. Overall a significant move away from the EU format.
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42 minutes ago, john terry1001 said:
In the 26 years I've been coming to/living in Thailand I have never met anybody who's had a problem. Perhaps somebody could post on here with a specific problem they've had concerning name change, what the problem was and why it was a problem.
As you will be well aware, every situation in life carries exceptional circumstances and this is no different, its a personal issue.
If someone has avoided a problem by not changing their name, then there is not going to be a specific problem to post.
As far as the documents are concerned that is very easy as now each time the marriage certificate is requested just attach the name change as the marriage certificate carries a statement that the female has chosen to keep her maiden name.
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14 hours ago, saengd said:
Setting aside for a moment the question of whether or not it is actually possible to transit Swampy versus Transfer at Swampy, I'll dig out the prior thread where airline staff argued it was not possible to transit at Swampy, I argued that is was but was subsequently convinced otherwise.
Back to the numbers: if it is possible to transit at swampy then transit passengers cannot possibly be included in the arriving passenger count because they never clear Immigration ergo they never arrive....TOT even separates them from their passenger counts (see below).
Transfer passengers do arrive because they clear Immigration hence they are counted, even if they immediately check in for a connecting flight. But as said earlier, how many long haul passengers would do that sort of turnaround, some I suppose but not many.
https://www.airportthai.co.th/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Annual-Airport-2018.pdf
Transfer refers to passengers going from international to domestic or domestic to domestic, all international passengers would clear immigration on arrival. Same for me going BKK to MAN via LHR.
Transit is international to international, hence the term transit visa. I used to travel on the Amsterdam/Taipai flight which came via BKK. Although the stop was very short all passengers had to disembark to clean the aircraft for new passengers boarding at BKK, there would have been insufficient time for through passengers to leave the airside of the airport.
Transit passengers may leave airside if they wish but they would be liable for the 700 baht airport tax as it would not be included in the ticket.
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1 hour ago, bluemoonpattaya said:
They are only refusing to change cash from other countries.
What they should be looking at, is the fingerprint virus spreading devices at the airport.
"fingerprint virus spreading devices" - where does that come from?
I went in and out of Malaysia at Padang Besar a few weeks back and there was a guy at the immigration desks cleaning the fingerprint machines each time they were used.
Of course that is not an airport so your theory must be right.
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On 3/7/2020 at 10:29 AM, john terry1001 said:
Can you please explain what problems people have if they change their surname.
It is more about the problems associated with a name change due to personal circumstances and for some in a higher level of employment the bureaucracy can be quite problematic.
My wife has only recently done it after about 10 years.
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15 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:
It's the excessive force being used by the Greeks including gun shots and tear gas that is considered a breach.
As I've said before, I sympathise with the Greeks having to deal with the brunt of this issue. But I was pointing out the hypocrisy from Von Der Layen.
Once again vagueness becomes overriding proof and makes an indisputable connection to the Law of the Sea.
Pointing the finger of hypocrisy at the EU and not at the UK is hypocritical in itself, but then having taken back control the UK can rewrite the dictionary in the brexit image.
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15 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
Deflection and obfuscation - I was referring specifically to infant mortality, not child mortality, which includes deaths due to accidents, violence and the effects of toxins in children up to the age of 19. But nonetheless, it is absolutely deplorable, I agree. However it takes nothing away from my point.
Health in England 'faltering' after 10 years of austerity, warns damning Marmot review
"Life expectancy has stalled, patients are living longer in ill health and health inequality has risen after a decade of austerity that will 'cast a long shadow' over the lives of UK children, according to a devastating follow-up to the 2010 Marmot review."
But in answer to your final question, yes - there is something askew in my country. It's that we are forced to give all our cash to the country next door and let them decide how much to return to us. If we weren't routinely bled dry by them, we might stand a better chance to fix our own problems.
I get the impression that many seem to think that the austerity regime did not apply to Scotland, or relevant to the way people vote.
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15 hours ago, billd766 said:The Greeks must have been damned good at falsifying their accounts or the alternative is that the EU auditors were 3rd or 4th rate and the EU desperately wanted Greece in the EU and glossed over the report and failed to do due diligence. If the latter was the case the EU have only themselves to blame.
Mainly the former Bill. It was based on an omission that only a few in Greece knew about and came to light a couple of years later. Problem here is that Eurostat had no say until Greece became a member.
Greece's membership should have immediately been suspended and the EU accountants a P45, then there would not have been the fallout from the fiasco.
There is certainly a question mark over the EU decision to allow Greece to remain a member, but on the other hand Greece has no right to complain.
In March 2002, Eurostat refused to validate data transmitted by the Greek government. In reaction, the NSSG (National Statistical Service of Greece) revised the debt level by several percentage points. In September 2002, Eurostat again refused to validate the data. The debt was revised upwards once again, and the government balance, which the Greek government had presented as a surplus, became a deficit.
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15 hours ago, billd766 said:
I had forgotten about the marine side. Thank you for reminding me.
https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/defence/aerospace.aspx
Defence Aerospace business
With more than 16,000 military engines in service with 160 customers in 103 countries, Rolls-Royce is a powerful player in the defence aero engine market. From combat to transport, from trainers to helicopters, our engines and pioneering service solutions ensure that our customers have world-leading engine technology available, whatever the mission demands.https://www.rolls-royce.com/country-sites/india/products-and-services/civil-aerospace.aspx
Civil Aerospace
We are a leading manufacturer and service provider of aero engines for large civil aircrafts and corporate jets worldwide, powering more than 30 types of commercial aircraft. We have over 13,000 engines in service globally with airlines, freight operators, lessors and corporates; with 50% share in the modern wide-body engines on order.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Holdings
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (company number 04706930)[3] is a British multinational engineering company incorporated in February 2011 that owns Rolls-Royce, a business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for aviation and other industries. Rolls-Royce is the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines[4] (after General Electric)[5] and has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors.
Rolls-Royce was the world's 16th largest defence contractor in 2018 when measured by defence revenues
TBH I had only a vague idea of the size of Rolls-Royce holdings and I didn't realise that it was this big or this varied. There must be a huge export market world wide.
So much for the UK not producing very much for export.
I simply cannot be be bothered to reply to logoosones post as he always runs down the UK and England wherever and whenever possible.
Bill, you have to remember that Rolls Royce went bankrupt in 1971 and was nationalised by Ted Heath, who according to some was the architect of the UK's demise.
The government will have a bit of a challenge if they have to bail them out again.
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15 hours ago, sanemax said:
The Greek Drachma would have devalued due to the terrible state of the Greek economy and financial affairs , this would have helped their economy by ways of increased tourism and their exports would have been cheaper and more attractive to buyers
As Greek was in the Euro , their currency didnt devalue
I have to assume you would blame the NHS for people getting lung cancer after smoking all their life.
The problems were there before they had the Euro so why not devalue at that time, couldn't possibly the fear of losing the EU as a sugar daddy.
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21 hours ago, digibum said:
Actually, you can get text messages on a non-smartphone. Believe me, I remember having to triple-tap a key to get the right letter back in the early 2000's.
Sounds like you're confusing two things. You have a Thai number which CapitalOne will not text and saying that you can't receive text messages because you don't have a smart phone. Almost any phone sold today can receive a text message. It's that CapitalOne isn't going to pay the international fee to send you a text message.
I would agree, I was getting text messages from various entities for years before smartphones came about. I had 2 small nokias, one UK sim card and the other Thai. The UK sim was a pay as you go, still works and held as an emergency when travelling, must be nearly 20 years old.
I now use a smart phone with dual sim, UK and Thai.
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45 minutes ago, sanemax said:Greece having the Euro as its currency rendered them unable to deevaluate its currency and ward of recession
Absolute garbage, they lived beyond their means for decades and falsified the accounts to get into the EU.
The brexiteers always turn to Greece as stick to bash away at the EU.
One has to assume that they are in favour of inequality, the Greeks used to pay themselves the old age pension after working 30 years, now they are moaning about having to work to 60.
Just how much will Bojo level the field.
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4 hours ago, talahtnut said:There are two ways of looking at the EU membership.
One view is from the wealthy, which I suspect is your situation.
You've done well, and I respect your views.
The second view is from the poor and working class, which is my
viewpoint, where, since 1973 food banks have increased from a
handful to over 600, child poverty is now in the millions,
homelessness is rife, job opportunities poorly paid, and zero hours
contracts for the desperate. personal and family debt at record
levels. It is for the less fortunate majority, the EU has been a disaster.
That is why they won the Brexit referendum.
The points raised are perfectly valid and you are right to a certain extent.
A large part of the UK population were led to believe that austerity was an EU ruling rather that UK government policy.
The real disaster lies a lot closer than you think.
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6 hours ago, vinny41 said:
Not really you failed to criticize the article you instead decided to make a comment against the poster says it all
If you had been engaged in trade with the EU prior to the single market you would be aware of how tariffs operate and not need an opinionated article as to the benefits the SM brought to the small UK exporter.
Of course trying to deride personal experience is a way of life to many on this forum.
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14 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:Here you go:
Eve Geddie, director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions, said: “The reckless measures being taken by the Greek authorities are a blatant breach of EU and international law and will put lives at risk. People seeking asylum are once again being used as bargaining chips in a callous political game.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/greece-violating-eu-international-law-amnesty/1753460
I will say the same again, it would only take 1 Turk out of the millions of refugees for Amnesty International to start shouting the odds.
The issue surrounds the 3.6 million Syrian refugees that are in Turkey and refugees must seek asylum in the first border they cross, they cannot transit to a country of their choosing.
Closing the Greek border to Syrian refugees is not a breach of International law as is being claimed.
There is no dispute that a humanitarian crisis exists and it is up to the International community to resolve it, not the Greeks or the EU.
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17 minutes ago, vinny41 said:
Glad you appreciated the article
Jumping to conclusions appears to be a strong point.
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21 hours ago, tomacht8 said:
The price of Danish Blue was 258Baht for 820 grams.
Incredibly cheap. Have never seen an import cheese here so cheap for years.
31 Baht for 100 grams.
The cheapest cheese in macro, and you have to buy at least a Kilo or more, is 50-60 baht per 100 grams.
The poster must have been to a different Siamburi to me. The price you mention is nearer the ballpark for the cheaper cheeses. The problem is that they are cutting it and packing it themselves so each piece is priced on weight and on some cheese the price goes down the larger the piece. There is quite a wide selection so not easy to be specific. Most comes from Australia and with some, like Edam, they have both Australian and Dutch, with the Australian being a good bit cheaper.
Danish Blue and Gouda are not ones I would have looked at.
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22 hours ago, vinny41 said:
Myth and Paradox of the Single Market How the trade benefits of EU membership have been mis-sold
Obviously your lack of personal experience forces you to rely on some article.
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17 hours ago, Nanaplaza666 said:
555555555 it's of so much importance to king IV of marroco, that he doesn't want the criminal filth that is living in my homecountry back into his own . And if my government treatens to stop paying them social wellfair there would be procutions . My government is trying to send back many of the rif and berber marrocans that are clearly not in my country to integrate, but just to steal and benefit , but their own country just won't take them back . And it's only getting worse with all these new so called fugitives from save country's as marroco and algeria , i would urge them to take care of that problem first before playing the nice guy and talk about enviroment . Sorry for that but other people that are from my country know axactly what i am talking about . Sending them back is a big step in cleaning up my enviroment .
"king IV of marroco,"
First indication post is garbage.
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6 minutes ago, Logosone said:Sorry, but that's a lie, the UK was never a 'net contributor'. The UK got far more out of the EU than it ever put in. When you take into account the amount of tax revenue the UK makes from EU immigrants working in the UK (a sum that far outweighs any benefits they receive from the UK government), plus the tax on the profits of free trade within the common market, tourism and travel that wouldn’t have happened without the EU’s free movement policy you begin to understand that the UK received far more than it ever put in.
Of course it is not so easy to quantify the real extent to which the UK benefitted from the EU economically. For example, if a French tourist visits London and spends a thousand pounds, how do we know whether or not they would have done so if they’d not benefitted from free travel which the EU faciliated at the time?
To quantify these things is not easy, much easier to say 'Aaaah but da Brittish, we's paid in dat amount and we waz a net contributtor'.
But you weren't. And if you could have built those gigantic infrastructure projects in Wales et al you wouldn't have applied for EU funds and held your hand, would you?
And yes, the fact that the EU is debating increasing its budget tells you that the British contribution will not be missed, especially when we'll take in exactly the same amount from tariffs on UK products.
Exactly, but it is like seeds on stoney ground.
In the last 30 or so years, UK exporters have enjoyed a level of trade with the EU that would never have come about had it not been for the single market.
Many small exporters will not be able to stand the "friction" that will be introduced and a large proportion may well downsize or close the operation. An unquantifiable EU based contribution to the economy that will disappear.
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9 minutes ago, vinny41 said:As for EU tariffs the EU will pay more to the UK than the UK will pay to the EU
Garbage, in more ways that one. Only the delusional could think that trade with the EU will follow the same historical pattern.
Tariffs are based on product classification and at the end of the day a lot depends on how far companies are prepared to distort the classification.
If you pack a bicycle with the wheels off, are you selling a bicycle or bicycle spares. Some of us remember the tariff days, not the easiest way to do business.
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On 3/6/2020 at 8:27 AM, vinny41 said:Access to each other’s markets
The UK is seeking tariff-free access to the EU market and for the EU to have tariff free access to the UK market
no adds on, no side deals merged into the main trade agreement
Tariff free access = EU alignment.
Greater divergence = Greater tariff.
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Thailand tourist arrivals in February fall 44.3% due to coronavirus
in Thailand News
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Glad to hear that, I am booked with Emirates to go to the UK in May. What is more of a headache is I have booked a package holiday to Morocco during the visit. The way things are going. Morocco could ban arrivals from the UK.