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UPDATE:

Unbelievably, Nok Air have confirmed they cannot get me on the flight I booked as it is cancelled. Offered an alternative flight which leaves ten hours earlier and I cannot make it. Offered another flight from an alternative airport which means I'd have to stump up 6000 Baht for a private speedboat to get there in time. 

So I have to travel with Air Asia to get to my alternative flight and to Bangkok, and onwards to fly back to the UK.

Nok Air REFUSE to refund me. They acknowledge they have cancelled the flight I have paid for, but refuse to give me my money back.

Anyone have any suggestions? how to reach their CEO? Or the Thai Aviation authorities? Or how I might complaint to 7-11 management? They are the ones I paid for this flight (No kAir allow you to pay at 7-11).

@CaineJudging by your attitude your end is only a year away as you sound like a miserable old git lol

I meant I don't have money to throw away buying two separate domestic flights when I only need one.

I paid at 7-11.

Almost 5,000 Baht.

That is money I don't have right now to spend on another damn flight.

Have a flight booked with this <snip> airline for June 2nd. 

They cancelled the flight, so I have had to book with Air Asia.

They acknowledge they have taken the damn flight off their schedule and cannot now guarantee my ticket, but they ask for me to wait until "the week before and check back."

I explained I am not prepared to wait until one week before, to find out they are not flying, then have to pay much more for a flight with Air Asia, and also my onward international travel to the UK.

Now they are telling me I can have a "voucher" for use in the next 365 days, despite my flying back to the UK and not coming back to Thailand, and that "they would not refund me even of the flight was cancelled."

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Chile has 87% type O and only 37 deaths out of 4,800 infections. 

Swiss 26% O, 37% A. 

There are reports that people who are blood type A are most susceptible to the virus. Type O least susceptible. 

Check out Thailand on this webpage:

https://www.babymed.com/pregnancy/blood-type-and-rh-rhesus-status-countries

17% type A, 41% type O. 

I have been told that 15 days is initially granted because the full 30 days needs to be singed off by a higher positioned office and there's hardly any available. You don't have to go back they are now emailing, etc.  But not so sure about that second part and will be happy if it is true. 

Just curious of the cost of hospital treatment, public Vs. private? if you caught this horrid virus. seen many posts here with differing figures.

Whilst the children squabble, I have a serious question - can anyone tell me if they will shut down restaurants as part of the emergency decree coming in on 26th March? 

K. Final request for advice. I'm thinking currently to extend my return flight to end of April. See what happens back home. I can easily stock up for a month, pay the overstay fine ,etc. But the risk, is whether flights back home will still be going.

I have not seen any imminent warnings from the UK foreign office about getting my butt home. That is what would certainly spur me to get a move on.

I am kind of relying on this climate doing half the job with displacing the virus. That's why it feels instinctively safer here for me.

4 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

My view is that the first places things will turn ugly for farangs will be the smaller tourist places when they run out of money. On an island you have a captive audience. There may be problems down the track with certain people playing the blame game and looking for scapegoats. Of course it may never happen but would be one thing I would factor in to my decision to stick or twist.

We aren't planning on leaving Thailand forever, even though the wife would happily stay in Australia, its just the best thing to do for us at the moment.

Do you mind if I ask if this  is informed by personal experience? UI only ask so I can make the best decision. been coming here for many years, quite a big expat population, and the tourist numbers have been drying up for years, not just now.

9 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Edit:

Just reread your post. You are on Koh Tao. That would be a big influence on any decision I made.

How so?

Well I'm actually weighing up everything. Worst case in Thailand will be a big outbreak, cannot leave and have to fend for myself. But I have a cheap apartment, a supermarket two minutes walk away, and it's Koh Tao, which is quiet because of zero tourists, and still seems safe to me right now. I was here when SARS hit, btw, and travelled throughIndonesia and Hong Kong.

Visa/overstay are least of my worries.

UK is currently part of the epicentre. I'm not worried about travelling back so much, but I figure if I have to hunker down somewhere, might as well be my apartment in Thailand, as anywhere else.

WHO are pleading with South East Asia to get on top of things, as of today, and countries are telling citizens to get their asses home.

Stick or twist?

If I go through the airport when they discover it, that is the only time I will be confronted and only have to pay a a fine, is my experience from past overstays.

Long story short - I am on one of the islands. Been coming here every year for ten years.

don't know whether to head home to the UK on March 25th when my flight is booked for, or stay here for another one or two months whilst the UK goes deathly quiet.

I know there are no tourists here right now, that the borders might be closed, etc, but it feels a hell of a lot safer than Europe. 

I am banking on the hot climate being a natural deterrent, I guess, and the situation in BKK not being INCREDIBLY worse than reported.

I've got nothing to head home to other than self-isolation on a farm in Neath and <deleted> weather. What do you all think?

Help me out - I have the True app on my phone, get all the Premier League games, lovely, but how do I switch from Thai to English commentary on my phone ? Anyone know?