AOT worries over missed targets if coronavirus crisis drags on

By THE NATION

 

 

Airports of Thailand (AOT) has said that if the Wuhan coronavirus situation continued throughout the first quarter of this year, the estimated passenger growth of between 4 to 5 per cent would be impossible to achieve.

 

AOT president Nitinai Sirismatthakarn said that tourists arriving at the six AOT airports from January 23 to 28 was down by around 4 per cent from the normal rate, due to the virus outbreak.

 

“However, AOT expected that the passenger number in 2020 would not be affected much, if the outbreak were controlled by February-end,” he added.

Previously, AOT had estimated passenger growth at the airports at around 4 or 5 per cent from 140 million in 2019.

 

“Presently, AOT is collecting statistics and information related to the coronavirus effect” he said. “We would be able to come up with the new targeted passenger numbers, in case the outbreak affects arrivals sharply, in the next one or two weeks."

 

“Currently, Suvarnabhumi Airport gets around 170,000 visitors per day, most of them tourists from China. This number is lower than the 200,000 average that the airport receives in January each year,” the president added.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30381483

 

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How can they miss? They are the ones who conjure up the numbers. 

However they do have a great excuse this year to give realistic statistics.

7 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

How can they miss? They are the ones who conjure up the numbers. 

However they do have a great excuse this year to give realistic statistics.

Will not happen..never..ever

No worries, just increase the flights between Wuhan and Thailand. Lots of Chinese will be buying a one way ticket, welcome to Thailaaan!

 

170k per day, most from China. Others have closed the flights. Way to go, usurpers.

Edited February 3, 20206 yr by DrTuner

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

“However, AOT expected that the passenger number in 2020 would not be affected much, if the outbreak were controlled by February-end,”

 Of course, the Baht hausse doesn't have any impact at all....

All they need to do is to 'close down' an area as a quarantine holiday camp zone... then they can fly people in no problem.

They are good at closing off public holiday areas for VIP's, so what's the problem?

"Cry me a river"!!!!

AOT worries over missed targets

Oh, for coronas sake, get with the program, just fudge the numbers!

By all accounts there are millions of Chinese desperate to get out of China. As so many countries are banning them they'll make a beeline for here. 

It isn't a crisis until TAT starts to downgrade the number.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

 

AOT president Nitinai Sirismatthakarn said that tourists arriving at the six AOT airports from January 23 to 28 was down by around 4 per cent from the normal rate, due to the virus outbreak.

Even Thai like TAT dream of numbers that are then published as goals that will be achieved, none of them think about everything that can happen.
And as in all ... the Corona Virus again the evildoer!

Bet not only AOT is worried what about Thai Airways?

59 minutes ago, Chang_paarp said:

It isn't a crisis until TAT starts to downgrade the number.

If TAT does that, it's a sure sign of the world being about to end.

170000 per day with an incubation period of 2 weeks. Why is the entry of visitors from infected areas not prevented? It can end badly.

What a boon the CoronaV.....now every misery in Thailand .... can be blamed on the pandemic outbreak....god sent, really !

1 hour ago, Darkside Gray said:

Bet not only AOT is worried what about Thai Airways?

No worries, they can lose 16 billion baht in a good, normal year! They are proving to be immune to profit!

Edited February 3, 20206 yr by PatOngo

2 hours ago, Darkside Gray said:

Bet not only AOT is worried what about Thai Airways?

 ????????

Edited February 3, 20206 yr by Artisi

1 hour ago, observer90210 said:

What a boon the CoronaV.....now every misery in Thailand .... can be blamed on the pandemic outbreak....god sent, really !

Will be milked to death (no pun intended) 

If ever other country closes their border with China and Thailand drags its feet, and Thailand is only place to escape, they could do 80million tourists...

 

You can see what they are thinking...

How can AOT set these targets? They don't bring punters to Thailand. The airlines do.

I bet the airlines are feeling the pinch right now.

 

Targets. Plans, economists.... There's a saying goes roughly like this:

 

Plans, like targets, goals, aims and ambitions, all fail at first contact with the enemy.

Must be time for some forgetful taxi passenger to leave a large chunk of cash in the back seat , been a while now , bring back the feel good factor again!

Wait till next year when they'll be creaming their pants at the year on year increase in tourist arrivals!

It won’t be long before other countries ban flights from Thailand.  The regime drags their feet on containment of Wuhan virus...

They can worry about like people worry about dying...what's gonna happen will happen, can't renegotiate death...accept and enjoy your time in LOS.

16 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

170000 per day with an incubation period of 2 weeks. Why is the entry of visitors from infected areas not prevented? It can end badly.

Falang tink too mut

What is the worldly religion of the Thai? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Thailand, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Thai. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Thai is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

Amended with apologies to Karl Marx

Just fudge the numbers.

 

People's health is far more important.

On 2/3/2020 at 12:39 PM, webfact said:

“Currently, Suvarnabhumi Airport gets around 170,000 visitors per day, most of them tourists from China. This number is lower than the 200,000 average that the airport receives in January each year,”

Actually this reduction is a "silver lining" that makes the airport passenger flight traffic safer.

The airport has been operating since 2013 significantly beyond its daily passenger flight capacity.