Covid-19: Bangkok airport has its quietest day since it opened nearly 14 years ago

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

Arrivals on Thursday at Suvarnabhumi airport - Bangkok's main hub - were the lowest since it opened in 2006.

 

Deputy director Kittipong Kittikhajorn said that just 193 international flights touched down all day.

 

There were 9,964 passengers, the least ever.

 

If you compared it to the same day in 2019 arrivals were 83% down.

 

Some flights had just two passengers, he told Thai Rath.

 

Those who have come to Thailand were asked to download the AOT application and fill in the T8 form about their travel and health, details of which were reported elsewhere in a story about blogger Richard Barrow.

 

Infectious disease spokesman Patikhom Wiwattananon said that not one of the 9,964 passengers had symptoms of coronavirus though one passenger was running a fever and was quarantined for observation.

 

Suvarnabhumi opened in September 2006, notes Thaivisa.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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The TAT have been unusally quiet ????

4 minutes ago, Chelseafan said:

The TAT have been unusally quiet ????

Taking advantage of the lull in trade to improve the travel experience when things pick up again in the near distant future - do you think? ????

Queue in TAT .. 1...2... illegal tourism up 150%!

Edited March 21, 20206 yr by DrTuner

28 minutes ago, CGW said:

Taking advantage of the lull in trade to improve the travel experience when things pick up again in the near distant future - do you think? ????

Good one.

As long as they can keep the Chinese hordes away—call it a victory!

Well that’s nice and they were kind cleaning up the air and Chiang Mai is just been terrible TITWell that’s nice and they were kind cleaning up the air and Chiang Mai is just been terrible TIT

193 international flights too many

Everytime I see this waiting area I get angry, that's the only airport I've been to where you have to wait your family/friends/etc from a spot where they can't easily see you. But of course this "limousine" service is in the prime spot for being seen.

22 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

The TAT have been unusally quiet ????

They don't know how to spin s**t without it coming out looking like gravy.

22 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

The TAT have been unusally quiet ????

Maybe they are all in self quarantine.

I was watching the news and they showed a picture of downtown Manhattan.  Looked like a ghost town. 

On 3/21/2020 at 6:50 PM, Chelseafan said:

The TAT have been unusally quiet ????

BS baffled their own brains. Their collective IQ of 34 cant work this one out.

People outside the heads of tat, have more brain power and could see their lies through the veil of smoke around Bkk and Chiang Mai for the last ten years.

Sum num na doo doos.

..... and about to get quieter...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/22/emirates-airline-to-suspend-all-passenger-operations-by-march-25.html

6 hours ago, Isaan sailor said:

As long as they can keep the Chinese hordes away—call it a victory!

And the filthy Arabs, Indians, Africans too. Thailand only for the pure white caucasians!

10 minutes ago, saakura said:

And the filthy Arabs, Indians, Africans too. Thailand only for the pure white caucasians!

And Thai bargirls, we need entertainment, eh?

 

Pure white caucacians are actually an endangered species, so wherever we appear, we should have some sort of UN protection.

No worries. 
If the number of arrivals is slightly higher the next day, TAT will announce that "tourists have started to return to Thailand" and that they expect the numbers to exceed last year's totals !
Remember it wasn't long ago that the Tourism Minister decided that the hot weather during Songkran would wipe out the virus and then the number of tourist arrivals would double what they normally would be, so that by the end of the year they expect to have at least as many arrivals as last year !

Somewhere, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (former Iraqi Minister of Information) and the ghost of Goebbels must be be snickering when they see the news these days.