Flights back to normal by Oct 2021, says AOT

[NightSky]

Wait..

 

..I see...

 

..something..

 

[thailand49]

Their economy is tanking right now it is their M.O. to make crazy predictions their white lies to put up a good front maybe the reason their baht the last week seem to be getting stronger instead of weaker?

[GAZZPA]

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Maybe they haven't realised the rest of the world is skint also long haul destinations will be off the list for a while, I get the feeling British people will be holidaying at home and a lot depends on the cost of flights

I think you're right. International travel will probably be given a wide berth for quite a while unless a very effective vaccine is produced and readily available. 

[Virt]

I hope things are back to normal sooner than Oct 2021, but time will tell. 

 

Personally I can't wait to get back to Thailand, but I don't think I'm up for it until a vaccine is ready or maybe an antimatter (edit anti bodies?) test that shows you had covid 19 is enough. 

 

But there is a lot of questions before traveling again. 

 

I fear in the beginning that some people around the globe will have a hard time accepting tourists again.

 

 

[BritManToo]

14 minutes ago, Virt said:

Personally I can't wait to get back to Thailand, but I don't think I'm up for it until a vaccine is ready or maybe an antimatter test that shows you had covid 19 is enough. 

I can't wait to get out for another Cambodian holiday.

Antimatter is dangerous stuff.

[peter14]

Hey Thailand... you know the damage you done by being racist and xenophobic.. .. you think you want us to come to stay there?? ... LOL  your <deleted> hospitality you visa hell.. your stupid retirement requirement.  Hell no... 

[yellowboat]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Meanwhile, Thailand’s important destination countries are countries in the Asia-Pacific region which account for over 80 per cent of our travel.”

Good time for Vietnam and Malaysia to step things up.  That looks to be 40% too high. 

[Jimbo2014]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Airports of Thailand (AOT) expects the volume of flights to return to normal by October 2021, AOT president Nitinai Sirismatthakarn announced on Thursday (April 23).

Why are tourists going to come to Thailand so they can spend 14 days in forced quarantine.  And... if they dont then Thailand Covid cases will skyrocket and the Chinese will stay away.  Not sure it all makes sense ???? 

[Virt]

19 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I can't wait to get out for another Cambodian holiday.

Antimatter is dangerous stuff.

Yeah something got lost in translation. 

Here in DK we use the same word for Antimatter and antibody and I used the wrong one ????

[Sir Swagman]

Calculating the amount of intelligence that goes into government predictions here......

1) add the Gregorian calendar year to the Buddhist calendar year

2) count the sides of a 10baht coin and subtract two

3) multiply 1) by 2)

 

[Jiggo]

So the Bars, Restaurants, gogos and Night Clubs will be open at the same time to accommodate this great influx of visitors sorry ''Chinamen'' LOL   

[moe666]

Boys go back and read the article it says domestic flights will be the first to improve. Then the other 80 percent of there air travel which is asia pacific. I do not think they are to excited about those hot spots of the US, Europe, and the UK. But what can you expect from a westen leaning site, the world no longer revolves around the west.

[tomacht8]

2 hours ago, jlwilliamsjr18 said:

Todays Arrivals and Departures

https://suvarnabhumi.airportthai.co.th/en/flights

Can I sue them for spreading false informations?
Many of the listed airlines have stopped operating.

[miamiman123]

Kinda like we don’t need the farangs as tourists...,we got the Pakistanis and Chinese??? 
It will never be the same in Thailand ever again.

watch it. Never ever it’s over 

wait till all those lights are turned off in all those vacant condos ...then you will know! 

[Booboo101]

There’s not a chance flights will be back to normal this year, many Airlines will go bust, those that don't will have to put prices up to claw back lost revenue, half the world will be in serious debt or one of millions out of work, and who will want to sit for 14 hours in a plane sat near total strangers and breathing in re-cycled air, not many I think !

[ThailandRyan]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

not unless they drop demand for insurance from covid and test certificates for covid

You also forgot about the required 14 day quarantine...

[ThailandRyan]

2 hours ago, jlwilliamsjr18 said:

Todays Arrivals and Departures

https://suvarnabhumi.airportthai.co.th/en/flights

Just because there are flights out does not mean you will be able to return here, and then there is the issue about where you want to go.  Are they accepting only citizens, and is there a quarantine in place where you are wanting to go.  So just because there are flights out does not mean much if anything, and its surely not anything like normal....

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Flights back to normal by Oct 2021, says AOT

Numbers & percentages.. all pulled out from a hat again.

[I did clean that last bit up a bit]

[tomacht8]

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Just because there are flights out does not mean you will be able to return here, and then there is the issue about where you want to go.  Are they accepting only citizens, and is there a quarantine in place where you are wanting to go.  So just because there are flights out does not mean much if anything, and its surely not anything like normal....

Many of the listed flights do not take place at all!

[joe jadore]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

not unless they drop demand for insurance from covid and test certificates for covid

Requiring health insurance to enter Thailand will DESTROY your tourist industry and National economy, 100%. Philippine's will be laughing at you while they rake in the millions YOU lose! Wake up Thailand, I love you too much to see you self destruct! 

[sead]

Ridicolous systemets. Land of predictions

[Guderian]

From the numbers of passengers and flights, it doesn't look like he's taken account of the fact that flights will be carrying 33% fewer passengers even when full due to removing the middle seat in each row for social distancing purposes.

 

That in turn will increase air fares by at least 33%, even if the airlines don;t hike fares to try and recover some of the enormous losses they've sustained. Taken with the inevitable fact that most people are going to be quite a bit poorer in the future, and it doesn't bode well for the long-haul tourism industry.

From the numbers of passengers and flights, it doesn't look like he's taken account of the fact that flights will be carrying 33% fewer passengers even when full due to removing the middle seat in each row for social distancing purposes.

 

[JAG]

4 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

Unbridled optimism plus reality can sometimes be interpreted as hope mixed with naivety.  ????

But one has to be impressed by their ability to predict figures to 0.1%!

[ThaiPauly]

I have told my Dad who is 90 that it is unfortunately unlikely that I will make it home within the next 2 years, I think that is realistic bearing in mind that I will need to get back into Thailand

[AAArdvark]

They must be back to normal so that they can fly in all that vaccine that is promised. 

[Dustdevil]

Just in time, or maybe a month before, the coronavirus's second wave together with the flu season.

[Venom]

October 2021? Bloody hell that's another year and a half from now! 

[Venom]

13 minutes ago, ThaiPauly said:

I have told my Dad who is 90 that it is unfortunately unlikely that I will make it home within the next 2 years, I think that is realistic bearing in mind that I will need to get back into Thailand

Glad i don't "need" to get back to Thailand and very much looking forward to getting out ASAP. This place has gone to hell and it's only going to get worse in my opinion. 

[sagra]

Man, I sure hope they let guys who have Thai wives and kids..... and who got stuck outside of Thailand, come in a lot sooner. I had the worst luck. The country was closed up 2 weeks before my flight.

 

I married into a wonderful farm family last year; I had my Non-O visa (to covert to a Marriage extension/visa...which will expire in 3 weeks); I had money for the bank.

I'm a healthy 74 and made all the arrangements in the US and Thailand to allow me to settle into an easy-going existence in the country I love,....with the family I love.

 

Gotta be thankful for Line. We do video chats every morning and night, but it's tough for a passionate couple like us.

[NCC1701A]

"Honey where do you want to go on vacation now that the entire global economy has collapsed and we are both unemployed?"