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Cheers. I forgot about the Muay Thai visas. A visa to learn how to hurt people. You just can't make this stuff up. Maybe they should push Thailand as the HUB of anabolic steriods to increase this secor of visa applicants. As for quality tourism I think this just means rich tourists. IMHO this is tourism based on class. Not a good thing to embrace. Plenty of rich Chinese, Russian, Indian etc. tourists, but quality? Well this is debatable.

This is of course only in a commercial sense. Hence the woman collecting passengers in the company car/van technically breaks the law. If she had driven her own car there would be no problem. It really is bottom of the barrel nit picking in this intance. I wonder how many times she's done it the past with no problems and only because of this knee jerk crackdown she's been done. As I have said previously she would employ people. She's not taking a job away from a Thai by driving to the airport/bus station or wherever to pick someone up and chances are most of the time a Thai does the pick up. More nonsense from Thai authorities flexing their powers.

I always thought a pic on your phone of your detail page and visa page is ok. I've only been asked once and this was a very long time ago by BIB in Bangkok. Showed them the pics and all was sweet.

How about Russians on Education Visas?

I note this dot point and immediately think of two nationalities doing exactly this. Tour guide or sightseeing tour operation I also do not see barwork on the list but according to my friend who has a small bar and tells me it's illegal for him to serve drinks, it certainly should be. ps even volunteering needs a WP.

She's pretty well off with resorts and the like and I would think employs Thais and or Burmese but this is simply rediculous. Maybe the Thai that normally does this was otherwise engaged maybe not but in the grand scheme of things when it comes to pettiness this is right up there. Not taking a job away from anyone as she is actually an employer that adds to the economy. She has created jobs. Not stolen a job meant only for Thais. Nothing will come of this if wiser heads prevail.

Try doing some research yourself. If you do not know the case, and it seems you don't, Google it. There's a lot.

Yep. This example is just another of how ludicrous Thai laws can be and how rediculous the enforcement of said laws are. If the woman did this before that idiot Swiss bloke did what he did then quite possibly we wouldn't be having this discussion. Again I say this is just another kneejerk reaction and will soon be forgotten. As for foreigners disregarding the employment laws there are without doubt bigger fish to fry.

Convicted in a Thai court with no forensic evidence. Is this what you mean? As for Boss if a person that's not rich kills a copper do you think the outcome would be the same? Everyone who knows Thailand and every Thai person is well aware that there is most definetly a two tier "justice system".

Which laws would those be? Ah! Yes. The laws that don't apply to the rich and connected. Silly me.

Boss although not murder he did kill a police officer and obviouly had assistance in fleeing the country.. The two Myamnar lads who have taken the fall for someone else possibly the son of the local mafia boss. He has 'disappeared'.

Rediculous. In a counrty where the rich and connected can literally get away with murder you would have a foreign owner of a bar who may be married and have kids here jailed and deported for pouring a beer to a cusomer. By the way this happens all across Thailand but I'm thinking right now the bar owners (and we're not talking the big bars here that can afford staff) are keeping a sharp eye out for BIB and Immigration. Like all knee jerk reactions here this will blow over very soon.

Proof? Really? I've said so many times but it seems you think I'm making it up that the fight I take was in 2019 around the Bt750+ mark and is now around the Bt1050+ for the cheapests fares for the flight time I take. You'll find this is a 40% increase. Can you tell us all, if you wish to, how long have you been in Thailand and how many flights have you taken?

You're in Thailand (?) so talk in Baht. Just under half a billion baht isn't bad for the Thai arm of AirAsia which on the whole is a domestic carrier.

Whingeing about airfares and discussing the cost of airfares are two very distinct things. Discussing if price gauging is happening is not whingeing. Pointing out that airfares have increased by around 40% or more is not whingeing. It's discourse. Saying that someone is whingeing over what is essentially the price of a pizza is, however, rather disrespectful.

I guess 1/2 a billion baht for full year net profit 2023 isn't so good. Marginal at best. Lets keep those seat prices up. "For the full year of 2023, AAV reported revenue from sales and services of Baht 41,241.5 million, a 135 percent increase from the previous year. EBITDA was Baht 7,032.4 million, while net profit was Baht 465.8 million**, a significant improvement from a net loss of Baht (8,214.4) million in the previous year." https://newsroom.airasia.com/news/aav-announces-4q2023-financial-results#gsc.tab=0

Yes flights are cheap here but they are now and have been fore some time more expensive. This is the whole point of the thread is it not or have you missed this detail? And it's not just about one person is it? "Catch a bus". "Thai AirAsia has weighed in on the issue of high airfares" High airfares. Everyone but your good self seems to acknowledge airfares are high in Thailand and being that this is Thailand external comparisons are simply moot. Even AirAsia acknowleges fares are high but they're giving their reasons for it be the legitimate or not.

Very, very difficult to sort out any type of problem with them. I agree but are the rest any better?

Silly comment which has nothing at all to do with this thread. I live here (20yrs), I work here and I have a family here and being ripped off by price gauging airlines doesn't make me happy. I think this is quite reasonable.

I wouldn't say no one. How about goverments? I remember very, very substantial bailouts.

Even during covid flights were cheaper and again it's more like 40%+ increase.

Been here 20 yrs mate and I know that airfares have gone up post covid. It might be the cost of a pizza for some but it all adds up.

No. Original fare was let's say Bt1000 on and again let's say Feb 1. Feb 2 the fare goes up 12% so its now Bt1120. Same day 12% discount special comes in. Fare goes down by 12% and is now back to Bt1000. It's a con. If I bought the ticket on Feb 1 or Feb 2 the cost of the Airfare is the same. Original price Bt1000. Price after 12% discount the next day Bt1000. I would think this is pretty straightforward. 12% off original price would be Bt880 which is what I thought was going to happen.

So they are recouping lost profits (don't forget the govt. bailouts) by upping the price. I call that price gouging.

Not the point really is it. The whole point of this thread is is price gouging going on. That 1 pizza could well be 2 if I'm getting ripped off.