josephbloggs

The Thaiger's writing just gets worse by the day. Someone needs to confiscate their Thesaurus and remove their access to ChatGPT. It is painful to read this <deleted>e.

Also remember the person you are replying to can't read. BKK will have a higher flight density capacity than Heathrow.

Oh dear, too quick to make a mockery and in fact you ended up making a mockery of yourself. Slow down before you bash next time and use a bit of common sense and read carefully. I assume you have actually been to Suvarnabhumi? Yet you believe it handles ten flights per hour? One landing and one take off every 12 minutes?? The article clearly states the new runway will increase capacity to 94 flights per hour. Heathrow handles around 72 per hour (combined take offs and landings): 1,300 flight movements per day / 18 hours per day it operates = 72 flights per hour. So BKK makes a mockery of Heathrow - and it does, in many ways. The newly opened SAT-1 concourse will handle 112 flights per day - that is not the entire airport, just a small addition to the main terminal.

I can confirm that Seatran has excellent live saving equipment. Live vests under all the seats, floatation devises on the decks and lots of lifeboats/liferafts. They were all stamped with their last inspection date and the date of their next due inspection (which was July 2024 on the ferry I was on). Raja on the other hand......

This thread has really brought the racists out in force.

Well my post was from five months ago so a bit irrelevant now, but the reason I didn't want a bus or train is because it was only a four day trip, so wasting two days on the journey there and back made no sense. For a longer visit, no problem. Nothing to do with mixing with the commoners (maybe a bit), a train would be fine, but I'll never get on a long distance bus in Thailand. I actually just spent 8 days on Samui and got back a couple of days ago. This time I drove and it was much easier than I expected. Left home in Bangkok at 6am and was at the Seatran pier at Donsak at 2pm. Unfortunately I had booked a 7pm ferry and all earlier ferries were full, so I had a few hours to kiil which was not ideal but also not the end of the world. Coming back I intended to stay a night in Hua Hin to break up the journey. An 8am ferry from Samui to Donsak got me to Hua Hin before 4pm, but then I decided to keep going to Bangkok as it was still daylight and Hua Hin holds no interest for me whatsoever. I wouldn't hesitate to drive again. The bit between Bangkok and Hua Hin is a pig: ugly scenery, horrible roads, construction, trucks (so leave early and you miss the nastiness) but the rest of journey is scenic, quiet, and excellent roads.

That's because it doesn't happen.

No, I think it's just your girlfriend that is weird.

Couldn't have said it better. What sad lives some people have that they live with that mentality.

Why would you do that? The man posted lies and slanderous comments saying that Thai skimp on fuel risking safety, the pilots were wrong to divert as he could see out of the windows and no other flights diverted (they did), and that the pilots' command of English was too poor to negotiate more firmly with ATC. It wasn't just a complaint that he was late home, he posted that the airline was risking safety in several ways. But you would reward that with a business class ticket and photos? He comments were slanderous. I disagree with Thai's approach and they should have just made him take them down and apologise, but I have no ideas why you think slanderous comments merit a free business class trip.

Another AN genius, talking about fining TG or removing their landing rights for a scenario that you just made up. A one minute internet search will tell you they continued on to Melbourne after a short time on the ground and arrived four hours after their scheduled time.

It doesn't need to be asked. If you bother to read about it (I know that is beyond most posters here) you'll see that after a short time on the ground in Sydney they flew to Melbourne. It arrived four hours late in total, but arrived safely.

This is Asean Now at its finest! Haven't read it yet you have drawn your conclusion and taken the side of the anti Thai posting foreigner, brilliant. Try reading it, it was clear slander in any country. This I agree with.

No they don't, and no they wouldn't.

You obviously didn't read the thread - he said he will have solar.

Yep. Driving 7-ish hours in a day (Kanchanburi to Hua Hin and back) with Thai family in the back is just beyond stupid. One accident, even if not your fault, and you are liable for the deaths of many Thais, that would be fun. But he laughs it off, "when in Rome". One of the most idiotic things I've read on here for a while. Like another poster said, I have a 100% seatbelt rule. Even if just driving to the local 7-Eleven in my car (which is one of the safest on the market) if the kids don't have their belts on we don't move. Family, friends, neighbours, all have to obey the same rule. Of course it is second nature to my kids now. The roads are unpredictable and dangerous and even if you do everything perfectly you can still become a cropper. One of my cars almost got squished in two right outside my condo when I was smashed into by a speeding pick up - if I had people in with no seatbelts or I was in a pickup with people sat in the back there would have been deaths. The poster is an idiot and should be ashamed.

And wears a helmet.

You don't sit your passengers on the roof of a van though do you, they are enclosed and have seat belts. Irresponsible and shameful.

One small accident = death. No idea why anyone would even consider that, especially on such a long drive. So irresponsible.

Wow, the Thailand you live in sounds disgusting. It bears no resemblance to the one I live in.

So you're happy to drive three hours + with people risking their lives in your truck? Rent a van.

I wonder what their business model is. You can buy one for those kind of monthly prices.

It's been a while but last time I rented a car in the UK they actually preferred my Thai license. Granted my UK one is a paper one (still valid) and old, but they asked if I had a foreign one and used my Thai license.

Correct, it only involves smashing cars into solid barriers at 50kmh and then testing the structural integrity and occupant protection. FOr some reason they give them 5 stars (the top award). Obviously the independent EURO NCAP people should pay more attention to an anti Chinese shouty YouTube channel rather than do real tests.

Aha ha ha ha. Yeah, this is the reason, because at 40,000 feet at night there is a huge difference than 40,000 feet in the daytime. Nothing to do with limited landing slots and many airports (like Heathrow) not allowing 24 hour operations or having restrictions on night time landings, it's because of the temperature of the air. Brilliant.