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9 hours ago, FlyingThai said:

EC261/2004 has in part been paused during the pandemic . . . .

Not so much paused, but guidelines have been issued stating that any cancellations etc caused by Covid are  not eligible for compensation.  Duty of care remains as you say, and normally that would be organised at the airport, but I don't think Austrian will have anyone there organising food and board for the OP.  He could do it himself and claim it back theoretically, but won't be easy.

20 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Upper Soi Diana (even though Diana Inn (or was it Lodge) is no more...

Your pics were from Soi Lengkee and even though it looks devastated and has seen a lot of closures, I think it's one of the less affected streets in the area.  Here's hoping it doesn't get any worse.

The UK state pension.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/article-2787888/how-state-pension-funded-cash-runs.html

12 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Looks like KL 873/874 are AMS-BKK-TPE-BKK-AMS, KL875/876 are AMS-BKK-CGK-BKK-AMS and KL887/888 are AMS-BKK-HKG-BKK-AMS.

 

They are still heavy lifting on repatriation (and cargo) flights by the look of it.

The TPE one goes to Kuala Lumpur on the days it doesn't go to TPE.  Similarly the CGK one goes to Manila.  All still seem to be routed through BKK, but no seats for sale except to the final destination.

3 hours ago, possum1931 said:

These "cheats" you refer to have paid into their pensions all their working life, the real cheats are the UK Government.

That's not how the UK state pension works.  What you paid in during your working life was to pay the people drawing their pension at that time.  Workers now are paying in for current pensioners.

17 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Not sure what's up with the KLM schedules going forward.

I think they're mostly (all?) still running and KL875 is approaching Bangkok as I type,  they're just not taking bookings with a final destination of Bangkok any longer.  Maybe there was a restriction on their permission as there is with the Emirates one, or maybe numbers are being limited?

1 hour ago, mrfaroukh said:

Usually before travelling everyone have to test and if ok can travel. Now how it show they are infected while in quarantine is a mistry.

The authorities that put these systems in place know they are not foolproof and that cases of the disease will still be detected.  The point is that the quantity of cases will be greatly reduced than if they never took any precautions, and reducing the numbers makes it manageable and treatment available to all who catch it.  That's how it's meant to be, so no mistry (sic) about it.

Emirates require passengers to have a Covid test before flying:

and to complete a health declaration form, available here.

https://c.ekstatic.net/ecl/documents/dubai-health-declaration-form.pdf

2 minutes ago, VMOMMO said:

Some carriers are still flying but there are no passengers or cabin crew, just belly freight. It doesn't do you much good unless you're a box.

The KLM ones mentioned are all carrying passengers, just not any booked to BKK any more.

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

I notice that while KLM were a frequent Bangkok visitor during the earlier repatriation flight scenario with sometimes two flights daily, regionally they now only service Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Manila. Their first BKK flight availability is 6 January 2021. A quick check on Air France website shows the same date of first availability.

The KLM ones seemed to disappear around a week ago as mentioned here:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1182999-traveling-from-london-on-eva/?tab=comments#comment-15825025

The ones you mention, plus those to Jakarta, Taipei and Hong Kong transit stopped at BKK and could previously be used for repatriation, but looks like that's finished now.

And AF116 from Paris seems to be operating today (21/9/20) but that's it.

10 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Can you do the 90 days online reporting at the actual reporting date (90th day) or does it still have to be submitted on day 76-83?

This is in the T&Cs you must accept before getting into the system.

Three times a week cargo service only, I believe.

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The incident is being investigated by animal welfare officials.

They'd be better investigating using zookeeper welfare officers going by the outcome of the incident.

4 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

With regard to shielding eyes, it doesn't hurt but apparently not proven in scientifically-controlled tests to date as reducing covid infection risk. 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/2770873

Not proven, as you say, but the evidence to date is it's highly likely as described in the article.

You can get printing done inside the Big C building itself.  If you head to the car park doors next to the food court there are some businesses on your right hand side.  One is a post/parcel delivery type place and they offer this service.  There's another on Soi Arunothai, but post #7 will sort you out before you need to go that far, unless your coming from that direction.  Pretty sure they'll copy as well as print, otherwise just print extra copies. ????

13 minutes ago, Crisu said:

In this aticle they are writing tourist must quarantine 2 week in their home countries and NOT in Thailand.

 

Is this something new??

I think it was just one minister saying something for the sake of it.  No other reports of this that I'm aware of.

11 hours ago, solomon david said:

. . . . cutting it a bit fine to expect me  a send the form 24 hours before i fly . . . .

Looks like it's all done on line.

https://travel.gov.gr/#/

16 minutes ago, partington said:

In science you don't make a declaration that something is true when you have no evidence. The statement as made is therefore not "true" because it is completely unsupported by any currently known facts.

Nice edit after my previous quote.

In real life you don't make a declaration that something "is not true at all" unless you can prove it's false.  By your own words that can't be proven so there's no need for the attitude displayed to the previous poster.

1 minute ago, partington said:

In science you don't make a declaration that something is true when you have no evidence.

Then why didn't you present some evidence instead of:

24 minutes ago, partington said:

“Those with more severe disease had a higher level of virus replication, although we have no evidence to relay the initial exposure dose to disease outcome,”

and

24 minutes ago, partington said:

“That rumour is still an open question to me.”

which indicates you (or the guy quoted) don't know either way?

6 minutes ago, partington said:

This is not true at all.

The rest of your post and the quotes from the article indicate more that it's unknown if it's true or not.  Why are you so adamant it's wrong?

From IATA info it seems you are too early:

14 hours ago, AndrewMciver said:

To now i've read that it would take on average 15 minutes in close proximity face to face catch some droplets (on average) - longer if you were outdoors.

The 15 minutes in proximity thinking may be down to that being the requirements for some of the tracking apps to flag up that tracing is required once a contact has tested positive.

Are you in Thailand now as I'd be much less concerned here than in the UK given the spread of the disease, whether or not you believe official figures?

Looks like this will guide you through the process:

https://thaiembdc.org/onlinevisaapplication/

3 minutes ago, fredob43 said:

Bit off topic. Yes true. But if their internet is poor so will be the down loads. And they also have an HDMI fitting on their TV??? I never get any buffering but I do run off 300+M/B fibre optic with my box fed into the set up via a cable. Any less than 50MB and it's a pig.  

Downloading can be done in advance or overnight.  Streaming can be achieved in acceptable (not perfect) quality on < 20MB and most hotels' wifi can achieve this.