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Virgin Australia Flight VA 5845 from Singapore, scheduled to land at 7:35am, was delayed by 69 mins.

Air New Zealand Flight NZ 3628 from Singapore, scheduled to land at 7:35am, was delayed by 69 mins.

Singapore Airlines Flight SQ 5050 from Singapore, scheduled to land at 7:35am, was delayed by 69 mins.

Bangkok Airways Flight PG 4213 from Singapore, scheduled to land at 7:35am, was delayed by 69 mins.

This is just one flight codeshared with bunch of airlines in the same alliance.

Looks better to show it as 4 flights, obviously.

Good job, Thailand. Finally moving to the 21st century and getting nuclear power.

And the only people who think it's scary are thaivisa news topic creators and they only write it's scary so people would click their links

It pays to check the stamp right there and then when you get your passport back.

236000 subscripers to thaivisa newsletter, 160 replies to this thread... and your first video got only 1000 views in 3 days

any pictures of the current stage of the underpass construction for us not in phuket anymore?

The Nation: "With a pregnancy rate of 54 out of every 100,000 teenage girls under 18"

Reuters: "Out of every 1,000 live births, 54 are from teen mothers aged 15-19"

Even if both numbers were 54 out of 1000, these aren't the same thing...

For examples of double pricing - look no further than not no great britain's passport office - nearly double the price to get new passport from Thailand compared to uk

What a great example.

Also, Michael the CEO claimed the waitresses make 18000 during high season and that obviously includes tips and half of the service charge as the company keeps the other half. They don't get 18000 as their base salary each month.

I could believe some of the waitresses making up to 18000 a month during the busiest months when you include tips+50% of service charge but not as an average for all the restaurants.

But obviously he is going to use that number as it looks the best

8000 before tips, I'm guessing.

I read from another finnish news paper that the company "employed" 350 thai berry pickers. This group of 50 created the only problems and 25 of them decided to not go back to Thailand yet, partly due to some finnish politicians coming to their help, I'm sure.

It's hard to know the whole story even after reading all these articles

Its insane how you guys go over the important parts.

Insurance AND minimum 18k/m salary for a monkey's job.

seriously? You know how much they make at other restaurants in central?

He said 18k/m during high season. That sounds high but I hope it's true

The average for the whole year will even out a lot, though.

A friend of mine sent me the link to this thread. I am sorry if some of you feel disappointed. Wine Connection has indeed become a wine shop and a Wine themed restaurant chain. We are not pretending providing a fine dining experience. We serve casual food and wine at affordable prices. Frankly we are trying our best to do so and yes there are challenges. I just wanted to rectify a few facts from various comments above. Food is Fresh (the only frozen items are French fries, salmon fillet, tuna Fillet and shrimps). Microwave is hardly used as this would be the worse way to cook. All our kitchens are open so you can have a look at the equipment and how the food is cooked. Service charge is shared 50% to ALL employees and 50% to the company to support items such as breakage, uniforms, food allowance to staff and 2 different kinds of bonus to staff. Tips go 100% to staff. We treat our staff fairly. If you don't then you just do not have staff as there is no unemployment in Thailand. Many staff in Chalong were changed in 2010 following a massive corruption case that was recognized by the court (and not because of service charge reasons as assumed above). We will keep trying hard to get better at what we do. We will also continue our expansion where we feel a positive response (Bangkok and Singapore for example). I'd like to remind you have a customer form in each bill folder so you can express your satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) this way. I also want to take the opportunity to thank our supporters. We'll keep trying hard ! Michael- CEO.

Hey Michael,

Thanks for clarifying the service charge and 2010 staff change topics.

Can you give me/us more details about the "massive corruption case" ?

Are you sure that the service charge does not go to the staff? I never tipped because I assumed that the staff got it.

I tried WC Central recently and found it fine. I too enjoy the chance to buy a bottle of wine there to have with dinner, without having to pay the inflated price most restaurants charge. I had the spicy seafood black fettuccine and it was good, also filling. I also had the bread basket, which was fresh. I enjoyed it because I seldom eat bread otherwise..

Well, the info came from the staff itself. Specifically from one waitress who had served us multiple times and worked there the whole time we had eaten there. We asked her about it after a friend brought it up. She said the staff who have been there longer get 5% but ones that haven't worked there long don't get any part of it.

In 2010 the Chalong Wine Connection on Chao Fa East changed almost all their staff. Could've been related to this as well.

I liked the big wine collection, good food and atmosphere there but I can't support a place whose owners abuse their staff like this so I stopped going.

Stopped going there a couple of years ago when I found out that the owner(s) keeps the 10% service charge that should be going to the staff.

Ate there frequently since 2009 before that

aren't aircons usually 1000W or more? hottest month of the year it can easily use 1 unit per hour (1000 watts for 1 hour or 1kWh)

one aircon 10 hours per day for 30 days at 4baht/unit(government rate) is 1200 baht already

Afaik, Sharky was neutered already

He came back on his own after chasing tail, afaik

Posting this for a friend whose dog went missing yesterday

Maybe a little extra at that time in the morning. A friend uses a taxi guy reasonably regular . He charges 1000baht though no negotiation. However what is important he turns up on time !! Which could be important if your trip is to catch a plane out of phuket. 500 anyone should be able to offer locally , just cross your fingers they dont go out the night before with their buddies and think sod it cant be arsed and leave stuck !

If you are staying here maybe it's time to find another driver who is reliable and doesn't scam 1000 baht from you for this trip?

I'm using 2-3 different drivers. they all charge 600b and show up on time even early hours. there are honest, trustworthy and hard working people in phuket as well. shouldn't need to pay almost double to convince them to show up early in the morning and on time imo

return trip for the driver is about 80km from chalong which is around 200baht in gas.

I change my bottle opposite the tesco park in rawai. 340baht for 15kg tank

Thanks for the replies. I'll get the spark plub changed too just in case, can't cost too much

This has been going on for couple of months and i've used several different gas stations. Can't see it being dirty gasoline ?

Hello,

I have about 4 year old Honda Airblade that is acting up. Whenever the engine is cold it takes some time (sometimes up to a minute) to get the engine running. After the engine runs if I try to drive it feels like the engine will shut down. I have to wait about a minute more to get the engine warmed up before I can drive.

I have gathered that the problem might be with the electric choke and/or bystarter that the airblade has. I'm not really sure about the terms though.

Anyway as I've talked with the mechanics they don't know the words in English so I was wondering if someone who knows could confirm changing/fixing the electric choke and/or bystarter might be the problem and what these terms are in thai. I can read thai so thai script or transliterations are both fine

Would be a huge help going to the honda shop tomorrow

Thank you!