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10 minutes ago, Chivas said:

Strange because I'm 6 foot 3 but never really have an issue in Economy. Careful seat selection by myself and I'd say in 50/50 of cases I have no one sat next to me. Obviously you're looking at seats right at the back where the window seat is already allocated on aircraft in 333 or 343 configuration. Picking the aisle gives an excellent chance of empty seat on a busy but not full flight and on non busy flights 99% guaranteed

Hi,

I am 6ft 2" and similarly I am usually OK in economy, but to be honest, I usually manage to bag an exit row seat with Qatar.

right guys,

You've talked me into it. Thanks. I will get the Amari booked. Stress free at least!

38 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

I'll keep my eye out for them, thats a steal.... 

 

I use the Momondo app to get the deals, Actually I think it's owned by Booking.com but they are linked to all the flight shops as well as airlines. They are a search engine as opposed to a booking agent, but I am sure you have heard of them.

15 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Ive done DMK to SR several times, are you talking the Air Asia 2:50 PM ish flight? Last two trips took me 1 hour ish just to get to the gate from arrival at airport. Stay at the Amari, get a good meal and walk across to the aiport at 11:30 am.

It's actually the 15.30pm landing at 16.30pm . I think they change flying times with the seasons.

There are two Roi Et flights, one arrives at DMK at 10am and the other at 2pm.approximately.

3 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

My wife and I flew with Oman, BKK to LHR at Christmas.. No complaints whatsoever and I have just booked with them again for a trip in May.

Quick check in, fast track immigration, nice new lounge at Swampy, great seat layout with aisle access from all, amazing food, comfy sleep, adds up to a stress free trip ????

 

Business fare, return to London @ 72k baht.... That's a good deal

Thank you,

Good to know.

As I say mixed reports coming through and I have seen Oman flights to Manchester in Business occasionally at 50,000 baht.

5 minutes ago, Mike Teavee said:

Good thing with Qatar & Finnair is you can claim your points on either airlines frequent flyer scheme (I put the points from my Qatar flights onto my Finnair account).

 

Lounge in Helsinki is decent as well & once you're a Silver Member you get priority lane access in Helsinki & Manchester (Not sure about Bangkok as I flew in economy from Singapore & Business from BKK but I doubt it knowing how strict they are there with Fast Track access nowadays).

 

If you do fly a lot from Swampy & want Fast Track access, Thailand Longstay Management do a package for 20,000 THB pa you get Fast Track in & out (only covers Swampy), I've been using it for 14 months now & it's been flawless (Met at the gate on arrival & check-in desks on departure). 

 

 

I have enough points to upgrade for a Qatar Europe flight but I didn't know that you could switch the points over. between Qatar and Finnair?

I have silver Qatar membership but they say any upgrade flights must be taken with Qatar air or so I read? Is that wrong?

I will bear in mind what you say about the Swampy programme because if this business deal comes off in the UK for me, it will be well worth it.

Guys,

Middle of next month I have a trip to Siem Reap.

However, due to differing flight times and arrival at DMK, I can choose the morning flight waiting 5.5 hours at DMK for connection in the afternoon to SR or take early afternoon flight from Roi Et which gives me 1 hour 30 minutes on landing to get the plane transport bus, clear International Immigration,  with no luggage, and board the plane.

It is more or less the the same problem on the return leg.

Should I risk it or go day before and stay in the hotel at DMK? That would be a bit of a boring trip but would ensure I get the flight.

1 minute ago, Mike Teavee said:

Same here, lowest price I've seen has been 65,550 (again via matrix.itasoftware.com)

 

Finnair (not as good) were showing 60,350 a few days back but is now at 72,500... 

 

 Finn air are due to open a brand new configured economy premium this year, or so I have read and that could be the clincher for me moving to them. Qatar, unless a prmo is on, is starting to get well above Emirates and Etihad in economy class.

Another business cheapo is Oman air but I have heard poor comeback about them.

Just now, Mike Teavee said:

use matrix.itasoftware.com, it allows you to search for a range of durations (e.g. 14-21 days) over a 1 month period & search nearby airports at the same time. 

 

 

Matrix is great and so is Momondo, as well as Google flights.

I never bother with Kayak or Cheapo air, perhaps I should.

33 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

Etihad planes out of BKK are ancient relics and for that reason I will never use them again despite their 380s being fantastic into Europe.

 Horses for courses, I am a Qatar regular but have flown Emirates business and Etihad economy. I had no complaints about the planes whatsoever.

We were delayed going into Abu Dhabi with Etihad and missed connection to Manchester due to late departure from Bangkok ( plane technical error and waited for new part) but they gave us hotel and food.

On 2/10/2020 at 4:38 PM, spinner2020 said:

I've been flying a very long time*, in recent years usually up the front. For me, the key thing about Business class to any destination is the lounge, the priority check-ins and the fast-track immigration in most places. They make the ar$eache of travelling tolerable and are way more important than the overhyped food on board.

AFAIK, premium economy (which I presume is what you mean) doesn't give you any of those things.

 

*"my arms are tired........"

Agree on most of it but you can't beat traveling in a good business class such as Qatar for the whole experience. I am just looking at biz flights now for Manchester at around 68,000 baht.

With my Qatar membership I already get access to lounges, premium check in. bigger luggage allowance. Unfortunately, there is no premium economy so its business or economy but I always get an exit row seat.

If I really want the express immigration, I can get that too by paying I think 1,000 baht thereabouts to one of the companies that serve Suvarnabhumi. Qatar has stopped giving premium lane immigration unless you are actually in business class itself.

I tried economy premium or de luxe with British Airways and definitely not worth the money but I have heard great reviews about Cathay Pacific, so people need to do their research.

20 hours ago, RocketDog said:

Any time an independent country is threatened it is incumbent on the world to defy their action. 

 

What you claim is no more or less inevitable than China invading your own homeland. 

 

Your stance is tantamount to accepting Chinese domination of the entire world. Do you also accept their ownership of the Eastern Sea? 

 

If you want to worry about global domination then consider Islam, which isn't even a country and does not rely on financial, economic, or military strength to reach its goals. At this point Islam's control of Europe seems inevitable though and seems to also be acceptable to most governments. 

 

It's more likely that the world will end up praying five times a day than speaking Chinese. 

I think you are quoting two entirely different scenarios here.

Not many are more vocal than myself about the Islamic takeover, or attempted takeover in Europe, and various governments pandering to the wishes of a 6th century stone age religion that has no place in modern society.

Many countries are now starting to fight back and push back against radical Islam and have had enough, and also accept that this notion of multiculturalism just doesn't work. You can thank Germany for the latest 1 million piling into Europe! However,that is a different topic nor do I think it is relevant here.

Taiwan as you are no doubt aware came about due to the Communist revolution in mainland China in the late 1940s. The communists have always claimed this as a renegade state/ island. There seems to be more substance to this claim that to the ridiculous one over the whole of the South China seas based on same maps going back to god knows when.

I do not agree with Chinese expansion, from the belts and roads initiatives to their behaviour in Tibet and Mongolia. I was pointing out that the rest of the world has already buckled and accepted Taiwan as a part of China, just look at how many allies to independence Taiwan actually has?

The overall strength in numbers, military might, economic might, gives China the upper hand completely in this matter. I don't believe any other country has the capacity or will to prevent a Chinese takeover in the long term.

I am pro Taiwan and against Chinese expansionism, so is Vietnam, the Philippines and many other SEA nations if the truth be told, but I just do not think it will do any good to the people of Taiwan, it even has a number of pro Chinese political parties favoring acceptance of Chinese rule eventually.

I use Krung Thai bank and I can transfer ( and I have ) up to 100.000 baht online from my account to any UK account.

No problems and no bank questions as I do it on my PC at home!

3 minutes ago, Langsuan Man said:

It's a whole different ball game if you "bought" an existing company since unlike a company you created there is a long complicated paper trail that has to be investigated to insure that there are no debt's in the companies name

 

Is also the reason closing down a company you created is cheaper, since little or no due diligence needs to be done 

Langsuan Man,

Apologies,

I created and set up a new company from scratch. No debt, the company has done nothing except file one years accounts of no trading.

It's one of those moments where you feel embarrassed for the silly buggers doing it.

22 hours ago, Langsuan Man said:

My lawyer and I have decided to try a novel way to close down a company that was opened to purchase a piece of property where I built a house

 

That is to do nothing.  The property has already been sold (given), transfer taxes paid, electricity and water have been changed into the name of the receiver, and final yearly accounting completed to satisfy the Land Office before the transfer

 

His logic is that the "company" no longer has any assets so there is no tax that needs to be paid so he cannot file and annual update.  So we will see if the Office of Business Development will close the company since it is no longer doing business.

 

Time will tell

Hi,

Well we bought the company to purchase a resort that fell through. So now we effectively have a shell company with no assets. There will be no future business in Thailand with or without a company.

My other half is totally unfazed, but I have seen this attitude from her before and when the powers that be descend, she just looks at me and repeats the reason why they have come as in money!

I then say ' Well you said..... ' to be greeted with a shoulder shrug! ..................Talk about Pontius Pilate!

24 minutes ago, Langsuan Man said:

My lawyer and I have decided to try a novel way to close down a company that was opened to purchase a piece of property where I built a house

 

That is to do nothing.  The property has already been sold (given), transfer taxes paid, electricity and water have been changed into the name of the receiver, and final yearly accounting completed to satisfy the Land Office before the transfer

 

His logic is that the "company" no longer has any assets so there is no tax that needs to be paid so he cannot file and annual update.  So we will see if the Office of Business Development will close the company since it is no longer doing business.

 

Time will tell

My other half has said to me to do nothing at all. I said what about them chasing you, she said They won't, too lazy and not interested and it will just be struck off.

A bit worrying for me, I am not a softy, but these swines have a way of biting us on the ass at a later date when we least expect it. It won't affect me as my name is not on it, but if they chase her, the bill will revert to me as always!

12 hours ago, henry2109 said:

Check with your accountant office or lawyer, if you can transfer the company to someone who wants to establish a new one. That means you will sell the shares of the company, so an empty shell, without assets or liabilities (as you said there are not any).

 

This way its a win-win. You do not have to pay anything for the formal closure, and the buyer gets the company relatively cheap, has just to pay the accountant office or lawyer which does do the transaction. Of course you have to give out a warranty declaration to the buyer that you will liable for any former debts, but that should not a problem for you.

Sounds the best option, I will do this method.

15 hours ago, bbz404 said:

You can't just go tot the tax office to close it down. You need to go through the proper liquidation process with a full audit and closing accounts and a publication of an EGM for liquidation. All this, your accountant should be able to handle. Cost for the whole process can be from 20k to 100k Baht depending on the accountancy firm. 

 

Where is your company? Bangkok? I can advise you a contact that can do the whole process for a reasonable price if your company is registered in Bangkok.

Hi, No we are up in the sticks and used our house as registered address in Kalasin although it was purely for address purposes. I was thinking more along the lines of somebody in the tax office getting paid a fee to assist in our closing it down properly. They, above all others would know the procedure.

1 hour ago, IAMHERE said:

May be more to this tory than we suppose. A 20 year old married woman and a 57 year old cop, wonder if maybe it wasn't attraction so much as intimidation. The husband was tired of his wife being raped could have set him off. I don't see old and young, except in bars with farang of course.  Cop parking his Fortuner outside her house had to be especially galling to the husband.  The cop is dead, not innocent.

A bit of a leap there with the rape accusation!

You have forgotten the way Thais see the Big face and prestige in being wined and dined by a senior policeman and driven around in a Toyota fortuner, when they live in and come from, the sticks!

There is plenty of it goes on upcountry!

All those girls and boys descending on Bangkok and Pattaya, pretending they are ' shy ' and haven't done it before and conning the gullible tourists!!

Where do you think they learned it?

18 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Thais never learn anything, China ignored the first signs of this virus until it became a serious issue... then began city lock-downs.

Thailand is in the same early stages  and they want to promote "domestic tourism" ???

Defies all logic!

Sense would tell Thais to stay locally, keep contact with strangers to a minimum, and take healthy precautions at all times for at least the next month to see if this diminishes!

In control they preach... Jeez.

That is what I said to my other half and at least up in the sticks where we are, with minimal contact with the outside as in major tourist hubs, we are better off where we are until this unfolds.

A  post doing the rounds with actual footage inside the hospital, from a female Chinese doctor in Wuhan with her face covered, said the Chinese government is flat out lying about the scale of the epidemic and she further said those infected were in their hundreds of thousands in China alone.

Next, the obsession and it is total obsession with Thais and money grabbing, they are pushing and promoting domestic tourism whilst domestic debt skyrockets, household debt at record levels and wages stagnant?

One way to guarantee this affects and spreads to the whole country is for locals to go visit tourist hot-spots frequented by travelers from China and others. Are these Morons from the Finance ministry and main government ever in touch with the common people in any shape or form?

Amazing Thailand indeed.

38 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

That's the problem meat eaters or in this case bats, before it has been chickens and pigs and lets not forget BSE in cows. Not eaten it in 48 years, i'd rather have the flu!

You are sounding similar to a reformed smoker!

We have a limited company with only my partner who is Thai as the director. I am not in the company.

The purpose for which the company was set up was to buy a resort, that is no longer the case, and I think it is wise to close it. It has never traded and we have submitted the first year's accounts through a proper accountancy practice and everything is up to date.

Can we close this company by ourselves by going to the relevant tax authorities and paying them directly?......... I don't really want to use the accountant for reasons below.

It is not complicated as it is clean and up to date with the authorities. The accountant wants is to keep it just in case ' for the future ' I have no intention of paying him twice a year to submit nothing and get charged for the privilege. We have no intention of opening anything more in Thailand.

I don't want to just let it lapse as who knows what grief doing it like that could bring to my partner.

Has anybody been in a similar position recently that knows the fees to close it down legally and properly?

8 hours ago, Farangwithaplan said:

With all due respect, thsat is still not proof. That is assumption without all the facts? Maybe many of the youths were just on the threshold of the drugs being detected and by the time another check was done, it was no longer detectable? What was the specific drug? What is the half life of the drug? What was the strength of the drug taken. How long before being tested was the drug taken and in what amount? What was the metabolism of the youths? Were some being more actie than the others? Had some eaten? Had others drank alcohol?

 

Without knowing the above it is just fantasy. But it is just easier to perpetuate a myth because the truth it too difficult and doesn't fit the storyline.

 

 

 

I am not getting into it, it isn't important to me. I am just repeating what I read.