Deserted Suvarnabhumi Airport

By The Nation

 

 

Airports of Thailand (AOT) president Nitinai Sirismatthakarn posted photos of an empty Suvarnabhumi Airport on his Facebook account, as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.

 

 

He also wrote that he could never have imagined such a visual.

 

 

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30384122

 

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Amazing Thailand and all over a relatively mild Flu strain.  Gross over reaction as countries gravely harm their people and economies

8 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

Amazing Thailand and all over a relatively mild Flu strain.  Gross over reaction as countries gravely harm their people and economies

????????

What time is that? Can't imagine it being that empty as still a lot of foreigners there. Anyway, we'll have the tat along next saying tourism has never looked better and they expect 50M arrivals this year. 

9 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

What time is that? Can't imagine it being that empty as still a lot of foreigners there. Anyway, we'll have the tat along next saying tourism has never looked better and they expect 50M arrivals this year. 

Does it really matter what time it is? That airport never looks like that at any time.

25 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

Amazing Thailand and all over a relatively mild Flu strain.  Gross over reaction as countries gravely harm their people and economies

Feel free to line up and get your dose of this "mild flu". We will all appreciate your immunity slowing down it's progress. In the meantime, there are many who will be seriously affected by this "mild flu". Professional estimates are 40% to 70% of the population will acquire this bug. Even with a 1% death rate, which at this point is on the low end of what we are seeing, that would be 240,000 dead Thai citizens, 1.2 million dead US citizens, and like numbers around the world. No question this is going to hurt economies - one way or another.

55 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

Amazing Thailand and all over a relatively mild Flu strain.  Gross over reaction as countries gravely harm their people and economies

everyone remember to sneeze at this guy when you see him ????

I can see many commenting here watch way to much Fox News Propaganda!

52 minutes ago, timendres said:

Does it really matter what time it is? That airport never looks like that at any time.

Because like all airports it has quiet times. Baggage will look deserted between flights anyway and the 'upper end' of departures is also less busy. But, yes, I've not seen it like that since it opened. 

Staged photo shoot. More fake news. Lines labelled R and T are used normally by non mains stream airlines, like S7, Aeroflot so there wouldnt be heaps of people unless a flight was scheduled.

 

come on OP, looks like those photos are taken at night when passenger number are always low. if you want to make a valid point you need a baseline for comparison; photos taken at the same time of day at different dates - as reputable news organisations do as a matter of course.

Swampy at 3am, not a check in person, cleaner, taxi driver or security guard to be seen, s pretty pointless picture.

Off topic removed.

4 hours ago, timendres said:

this is going to hurt economies

present tense - is hurting...

 

how long can any business go w/o customers? 

Going by the darkness outside, it's probably 2.30 am and like most other airports all over the world it is pretty deserted

40 minutes ago, samsensam said:

 

come on OP, looks like those photos are taken at night when passenger number are always low. if you want to make a valid point you need a baseline for comparison; photos taken at the same time of day at different dates - as reputable news organisations do as a matter of course.

This was 9pm, we've seen similar photos at 11am and 3 pm...thats surely enough comparison, accept it, no one is travelling

4 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

Amazing Thailand and all over a relatively mild Flu strain.  Gross over reaction as countries gravely harm their people and economies

Try telling that to an Italian

Post in foreign language removed.

1 hour ago, legend49 said:

Staged photo shoot. More fake news. Lines labelled R and T are used normally by non mains stream airlines, like S7, Aeroflot so there wouldnt be heaps of people unless a flight was scheduled.

I flew Qatar a bit after midnight Thursday (Friday?) and 'R' is where I checked in for the flight. 

5 hours ago, timendres said:

Feel free to line up and get your dose of this "mild flu". We will all appreciate your immunity slowing down it's progress. In the meantime, there are many who will be seriously affected by this "mild flu". Professional estimates are 40% to 70% of the population will acquire this bug. Even with a 1% death rate, which at this point is on the low end of what we are seeing, that would be 240,000 dead Thai citizens, 1.2 million dead US citizens, and like numbers around the world. No question this is going to hurt economies - one way or another.

Complete hogwash.  The actual mortality rate statistics are so grossly being applied that it is laughable from a scientific point of view.  The earth has about two or three billion people too many now.  A population reduction will be better for the overall health of the planet.  The flu is impacting mostly old and aged people, which is a natural evolutionary thing. Old and weak die, stronger survive and pass that on to successive generations. 

King power must be suffering, watch out Leicester, no wages.

i expect their funeral parlours are happy.

And now that the Australian government came out with the measures last night thinks will even get bleeker as no sane airline will fly into a country that a 14 days mandatory  quarantine, i for one had to cancel my upcoming trip to Oz and now wait to see what TG will do about refund or allow open ended rebooking in the future...

What is missing is a photo of the immigration line a mile long because they have only 1 staff person working.

6 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Because like all airports it has quiet times. Baggage will look deserted between flights anyway and the 'upper end' of departures is also less busy. But, yes, I've not seen it like that since it opened. 

March 4th photos taking a friend to Swampy to fly back to USA after a month visiting me here Time 9:30 PM and of course this area had people arrive that filled small area of people leaving on that flight but the rest of the airport had very few people. Never seen it like that. Usually have to double park in the parking lot with the break off in case they have to move the car, this time plenty of parking spaces.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 16, 20206 yr by Tony125

Very similar at Don Meaung Airport (DMK) last Wednesday at 07:30am, however there was a sprinkling of passengers for the budget airlines, like me flying to Siem Reap.

Cue in TAT in 1...2... still millions of Chinese coming in for sure. They must somehow bring them in in containers or something.

There are actually still nearly 100,000 people arriving per day.

Today Finnair HEL→BKK→HEL three flights every day.

 

From 01.04 zero (0)

1 hour ago, Da Nang said:

Today Finnair HEL→BKK→HEL three flights every day.

 

From 01.04 zero (0)

Finnair just announced they will be cutting 90% of their flights. Given that Finland today announced it will be closing it's borders, the BKK flight is likely on that list.

 

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnair_slashing_capacity_by_90_from_1_april/11259244

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/coronavirus_latest_272_cases_confirmed_in_finland_schools_to_close_finnair_and_tallink_cut_back_services/11249610

 

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The company's only intercontinental route that will continue during the period of restricted operations will be to Tokyo.

 

Edited March 16, 20206 yr by DrTuner

1 hour ago, sitti said:

There are actually still nearly 100,000 people arriving per day.

You work for TAT right.....or did you mean 10,000