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1 hour ago, NoComment said:

The dollar is still low to the Baht?

Why should the government worry? 

They are not starving, unemployed, homeless or begging from their families!!!

Something needs to be done for the the good people of Thailand and done quickly.

Thailand is not China (yet)

 

Yet.......  But unfortunately being run by individuals who are only a stones throw up the food chain from China....   They're backing the wrong horse again with China, just as they did with Japan last time with another Army individual at the helm....... and we all know how that little pipe dream ended....... 

11 hours ago, ChakaKhan said:

In my over 12+ yrs spent in LOS, Ive spent less than 24 hrs in Patts....shady AF  Sketchy Vibes indeed..

Been once in thirty odd years...... no thanks...... Bangkok used to be the best when it was rocking..... 

11 hours ago, jackdd said:

He said "residing in Thailand"

Foreigners on non-immigrant visas aren't considered as residents, but as temporary visitors.

So if this turns out to only apply to permanent residents he wasn't lying.

Another chance to weed out some more pesky farangs.......  Gap Baan !  

Once again.... Test at the airport just as Malaysia does, 3-5 days quarantine then a weekly check at a hospital for a month would be just enough........ But what if, what if ?????   This can't go on forever as the whole show will fall to bits shortly, and i'm not talking about Thailand i'm talking about the world.....   Mass hysteria......  But what if ?   You've probably more chance of your birds husband turning up with an Uzi and turning you into a Swiss Cheese than contracting C19.....  But what if ?      Anyway fork handles !  I've got my passport...... Just gotta fill it in.....  i wonder if Yellow fever will cover it ?  

3 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

That would be because it was a long haul flight from somewhere (probably Europe) to Phuket, making a stop in Bangkok.  Or should they get everyone off and put them on two smaller aircraft?

Nah, it was an old bird that was at the end of its life, but four engines for such a short distance and everyone onboard boarded in Bangkok.....  I fly a lot and i tend to notice details like this...... Plus there was hardly anyone on it...   Why would an aeroplane of such size be stopping in Bangkok as Phuket has an international airport ?    Just seemed strange as Thai and Thai Smile have a lot commuter aircraft...    

2 minutes ago, ozfarang said:

You mean the B-787?

787 what a nice aeroplane that is...... Had a flight on an NZ 787, quiet and comfortable .......A little strange though when you see the wings flex like a glider, but one of the best commercial airliners i've ever been on......I think it had Rolls Royce engines as well...... 

4 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

 

The planes that are parked are obsolete. Why would you expect TG to keep flying  B747 and AB 340 when other airlines were phasing them out years ago because the aircraft consumed too much fuel? The B777 aircraft TG  is trying to dispose of are  20+years old and require some heavy maintenance.  The new aircraft pay for themselves in their fuel savings and additional payloads and range.

Work this one out for bad management. I once flew from Bkk to Phuket on a Thai airways 747...... Hardly a short haul aircraft..... 

A friend of mine was a maintenance manager for a large airline operating out of Suvarnabhum. He always said that one day he'd buy an engine then he'd be on easy street and he thought he had one coming out of Indonesia as there was a P+W refurbishment shop down there that he thought he could purchase one from, not cheap i might add..... 

I asked him to elaborate ? He told me that most airlines rent the engines, rent the seats, and finance the airframe. 

Wow, that was a revelation to me, but as far as Thai airlines goes, no one's going to touch them if they can't pay their debts first, and we all know that Thais don't like to pay back. I learned that from my first job in Thailand when i had to go to a company, threaten to smash the gates down, then confiscated a lot of machinery from the company that initially started the Skytrain in payment for what they owed the company i was working for. It was hilarious as i'd turned up with a D9 on a flatbed and just pointed to the Dozer when the bloke on the gate was refusing entry...... He flung the gates open and being an elderly German man was heard muttering......"Tommies"

 So Thai airways predicament doesn't look all that bad if they just opened the country up as soon as possible and got the tourist figures to a level where you could entice finance....... Flog the scrappers to Bolivia or someone who wants to make a restaurant and stop running the joint like an army camp......

Oh, and run the airline for profit not a private taxi service for the connected....... 

12 minutes ago, sanuk711 said:

What a mess...we start of with something that was done 158 years ago--end up with someone not paying bond  money back...........

 

Unfortunately a lot of situations in Thailand end up with a local not paying one way or the other..... That was why the initial Hopewell Skytrain was ditched early on, the stonehenge eyesore that stood outside of Don Muang airport for years was because the government welched on payment. Same reason why the MRT had to get Chinese trains in later on because they owed so much to Siemens and Siemens wouldn't supply anymore without payment....... The rumbly trains with the bad jerky braking are the Chinese ones......   Sticky fingers again........

47 minutes ago, sanuk711 said:

Your right chasboyuk....its actually the most expensive in Europe, but your get the usual mob of Brits tut-tuting about the Thais running their sky-rail, which after being up over 20 years for an inner city rail service is still more advanced then anything like it in Britain.

 

Google-Search instead for what country has the most expensive train fairs

The TUC's other piece of research compared the price of a monthly ticket between Chelmsford and London and Manchester and Liverpool with similar journeys in France, Ireland, Germany and Belgium. And, once again, the commutes in England do indeed come out as the most expensive.

Britain ?  Oh yeah that country that invented railways and had the first underground system in the world.....  By the way, the BTS and MRT wasn't a Thai job, Thai labour yes, foreign Engineering and Management of course...... I worked on both from the start to the finish......  A lot of westerners that worked on these projects spent a lot of their time trying to stop stealing going on, infact all the concrete trucks were sealed so that Somchai didn't go into the concrete business on his own.....  British, Germans, Italians and Japanese were in control of building those systems with Thai labour.....   We had a Thai Engineer working for us,  he used to have an interpreter to speak through to the lower class Thais because he was hi-so..... He eventually ran away with a bond for a house on a job up North...... Then informed the company that he didn't need to pay the money back because he was Thai and we were foreigners in his country........ Class.......  How many times have i heard that little gem ?  

1 hour ago, Nout said:

I worked in Siam Square and lived in Banglampoo before the RTS was built...I used the boats and canals to avoid the traffic jams!

It was hell driving around Bkk then, and if you got stuck in traffic and it rained like i once did in Sukhumvit, the road used to flood and all the rats would come out of the drains in a fountain of filth and rodents..... Oh yes, truly a memorable experience when your foot pedals are underwater......  Walking down Suk trying not to fall down a hole and hopefully not meet a crocodile, they had some escape years ago from a zoo or somewhere, probably Samut Prakarn, so Bkk became even more interesting.....  Yep, the skytrain is a blessing..... 

39 minutes ago, Chiang Mai Bill said:

Only to poor third-world countries. Would thailand wish to state it was a poor third-world country? Loss of face?

It would if it was free, the they would charge for it......... The leopard can't change its spots..... 

Why vaccinate them ?  Good excuse to keep em all locked in ........ Less chance of anymore protests for a while.......     For a while....... All for "Peace and Harmony" of course....... 

2 minutes ago, Nout said:

Where are you from? Where are you living now? LOL

I'm living in a place that i've lived in over thirty years and i don't recognize it anymore..... and i'm not going senile.....  It's been destroyed by the shiny button mob and anyone who's been here long enough can tell you that....... A shadow of its former self......... not the fun place it used to be..... 

21 hours ago, billd766 said:

I am an old man (76), and I am at home, which is rural Kamphaeng Phet.

 

I don't watch tv as I have better things to do.

 

I quit smoking 50 odd years ago and I quit alcohol 1st June 2020 to give my body a rest after 60 years of drinking alcohol.

 

The last time I was in Pattaya was about 5 years ago and I bought a motor bike.

 

I spend my time with my Thai family here and have plenty of things to do to keep me out of mischief and Pattaya.

 

Good for you....... Exactly what a senior gentleman should be doing.......... Good luck, careful on the motorbike.....   ( I was refering to senior gentlemen in uniform )    SHhhhhhhhh.....

18 hours ago, onebir said:

Roman builders!

Yeah, but they couldn't get planning permission, wrong brown envelope........ Ongoing job........

Tell me who this bloke looks like ?   I reckon there's a family of Anutins all over the joint.... Scary thought..... 

39 minutes ago, peter48 said:

June is far too late really. It needs to start asap. Firstly to reassure the population, secondly to bring back confidence to the economy, to give confidence to those who manufacture, import & export and thirdly of course to give confidence to the tourist trade and eager want to come tourists. Thailand could miss out as the Caribbean countries are already encouraging wealthy tourists and undoubtedly Turkey, Greece, Spain and others will have vaccinated many more people before the summer. Looks like Thailand will be far behind. Just starting in June and a small part of the population that will take it to end of 2021 and beyond. A great pity.  

It's laughable all this talk of "High end Tourists" when talking about Thailand compared to say the Bahamas or many other beautiful destinations all over world. If i was a "High end tourist" i wouldn't be coming to Thailand, infact having been in the Bahamas, Tahiti and the Maldives, anything Thailand has shouldn't be written on the same page...... This is the problem, the TAT has never been outside of Sukhumvit.......  In my opinion Mr CP and his cronies should stop dreaming of touting Ban Chang as Bermuda and just go back to what worked for years....   This delay with a vaccine might just give them enough time to realise that they made a massive mistake in promoting Thailand as something it is not...... 

Ah, yes yes, all very nice ....... But has anyone finally twigged onto the fact that all these Thai banks are playing poker with many peoples 800,000 bht visa deposits and are probably making a tidy sum off them ?   I can't believe that if someone's worked hard for their money they give/lend it out to others so easily......especially in the light of multiple cases of bank wrongdoings in Thailand....   As we all know, if you have to go to the Thai legal system you're in for a heavy financial spanking.......