International flights to Thailand won't resume until September, says aviation authority

[ttrd]

10 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Perhaps I should consider renting a container on a freighter to visit my family back in the "old country to arrive right in time for Christmas.

Well, nothing surprise me when it comes to what those who still believe in Santa are willing to do ...

[gerritkaew]

so or tickets to thailand in July i can not use?????

[EricTh]

15 minutes ago, Traubert said:

Assuming everywhere else is normal too.

 

Watch National Day in China. 1st October.

The way I understand that news report is

 

September = 25% capacity

October = 50%

Nov = 75%

Dec = 100%

[EricTh]

10 minutes ago, gerritkaew said:

so or tickets to thailand in July i can not use?????

Unless you are a work permit holder, no.

[sambum]

43 minutes ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

Yes exactly, it's called having a choice, glad you understand now. 

 

As for ''severely dented any prospects of any future employment in their given field''...hahaha..laying it on a bit thick aren't we to suit your argument lol.  If they are good at what they do I'm quite sure the poor souls would get another gig. If not they will be in good company with millions everywhere losing their jobs.

 

 

"Yes exactly, it's called having a choice," 

 

Caring kind of a soul aren't you with your patronising attitude?

Hob·son's choice noun

1. a choice of taking what is available or nothing at all.

    

   ''severely dented any prospects of any future employment in their given field''...hahaha..laying it on a bit thick aren't we to suit your argument lol."

    

   I have never worked "offshore" but I would imagine that the same rules would apply as "onshore" jobs that I have worked. If you walk off the job, you risk losing all salaries/wages due to you, and I would imagine that under the circumstances, your company/employer would be very reluctant to give you a reference of any worth for any prospective future employer

    

   "lol"

    

    

Edited June 20, 2020 by sambum

[Dustdevil]

10 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Perhaps I should consider renting a container on a freighter to visit my family back in the "old country to arrive right in time for Christmas.

Cargo ships still have passenger cabins these days. Not a bad way to travel.

[mike787]

September....more like November or December by then flu season and covid will be ramping up BIG and we are back to closing down for 6 months all over again.  History repeats....

[jerolamo]

10 hours ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

Pure speculation. We don't know for sure about 'guys' outside and each ones situation, do we.  If any are genuinely stuck, they had plenty of time to come back when it was obvious that the borders were going to be closed at some point, so why didn't they?? And please don't list a load of weak excuses, if they were that worried they would have come back, end of story,

I'm one of them to be stuck outside and have Thai family waiting for me in north of Thailand.

Is not so simple as you are thinking. I can not coming back and soon have no more work due to out of work season for underwater works on my country place (i'm commercial diver).

I also have my own house to finish to build myself in Thailand...

I not understand why you choose to be aggressive and judge people harshly there ? what is your point to permit yourself this comportment ?

If you had a bad experience in Thailand, it is not the fault of other foreigners there. Please, don't make your own experience of Thailand a general one for other, it is not.

Also, because of money problem soon, i would not be able to help my Thai family if they have problem (i did many times because i know them very good and see they have difficult life as long as they are poor, but i can do only if it is possible for me), so the problem of my wife and me will become a problem also for all my Thai family.

This is not a speculation, it is a real fact and i know many other in the same situation (but the one i know are not on Pataya or Phuket or any tourist place for bars and alcool...).

So please, if you only know about tourism place in Thailand and kind of farang around, i can understand your judgment, but not all farang (from far) are like that. You only see what you are looking at, or what you are focus on.

For COVID-19, i can understand Thai government to be afraid, but i choose to believe on there intelligence to accept a little risk (lower than little in real facts) from there own Thai family linked with foreigners by the law, the one who support Thailand and stay quiet, the one who never make/have problem, the one that Thai people love really. The farang friends linked by family.

I see when had the problem in the cave and foreigners came to help... i remember Thailand recognized the good foreigners more than other countries done on same situation happened. So... they are able to make difference between tourists who don't really care about Thailand (or the one who all the time speak bad) and foreigners who are really linked with Thailand and care about Thailand.

There is also no generality to be true, all over the world.

And if your choice is to be negative, in fact, it is your problem, try to speak with a psychologist, i hope for you to feel beter.

I hope for foreigner married in Thailand to soon be able to come back care family quietly and safely (very soon).

[KKr]

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

He expects most flying in Thailand to be on domestic routes, not international.

Really,

never to old to learn are we

????????????????

[Foexie]

11 hours ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

Why, what are they missing??

 

 

Reading this and some of your earlier posts make me believe you far from the brightest star in the sky.

 

Not worth reading more from you i guess.

[falang1969]

"Commercial flights arriving daily, from lot's of destinations across the globe. Plenty of flights to be had. Which this announcement even dumber, as flights never stopped... Options are a more limited than usual, and fares might be more expensive, but again, plenty of commercial flights arriving and departing daily."

Really? TG916/TG917 BKK - LHR has been flying all through this. Try and book a flight on one of those flights!

[Muzzique]

12 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

I thought ones with Thai family members will be given an exception to enter following strict protocol 

Probably will be, all they need is an airplane to get here..    next one is in Sept. But they could always walk it. 

[Muzzique]

11 hours ago, vermin on arrival said:

So no travel bubbles

Only to countries that miraculously had low Coronavirus figures like Thailand. 

 

They can airfreight massive containers of BS between them at the same time.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

8 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

One statement was from government regarding the opening up and relaxation of rules to allow foreigners with Thai families and others to get back together.

 

The recent govt announcement and resulting news story here relating to married expats being able to return was a PROMISE of some future announcement and decision to be handed down at some unspecified future date -- not anything that's being implemented/allowed right now AFAIK.

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

8 hours ago, aussienam said:

The current limited hotel model needs to be extended to a large scale model of mass intake returnees.  There are many different models being used globally for quarantining arrivals.  I am hoping the Thai government is looking at expanding options whilst maintaining integrity of its current health measures.  Lowering exorbitant hotel costs for quarantine and looking at other facility arrangements. 

 

I too am having a hard time understanding why they're not willing or able to greatly expand the capacity of the current hotel-based quarantine program. Around me in BKK, and I'm sure elsehwere, there are hotels closed all over the place and staff out of work. They ought to be able to scale up the quarantine housing program, put those people back to work, start bringing some money back into the industry, and then after two weeks, allowing all those folks to go back home and resume their lives....

 

I just don't get the seeming failure to even consider it.

 

[unheard]

21 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

The recent govt announcement and resulting news story here relating to married expats being able to return was a PROMISE of some future announcement and decision to be handed down at some unspecified future date -- not anything that's being implemented/allowed right now AFAIK.

It's been decided and implemented.

The process is established and one can apply via online forms by the local Thai embassy - the same applications as for the WP holders.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 minutes ago, unheard said:

It's been decided and implemented.

The process is established and one can apply via online forms by the local Thai embassy - the same applications as for the WP holders.

 

Do you have a link-able source for that?

[Mikeasq60]

Has anyone given a though that China is influencing Thailand. I just get that feeling is anyone observing how quickly information posted on here by TV is constanly changing, hourly.

[torturedsole]

5 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I am quite happy to have switched my flight back to Australia from August to November. However, that's no certainty either.

I did ours in reverse.  Rebooked LHR-BKK return from May 2020 to late November 2020.  Still, I won't believe it until we're boarding for outbound with no restrictions.  

[unheard]

3 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Do you have a link-able source for that?

https://thaiembdc.org/onlinevisaapplication/

[Mikeasq60]

16 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

There's so much false rubbish in your post, I don't even know where to begin.

 

I have time break it down for me so I can learn and give you a counter. I honestly feel Thailand is being influenced by China because China is financing many projects in Thailand 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

16 minutes ago, unheard said:

https://thaiembdc.org/onlinevisaapplication/

 

That's an online visa form for B and O visa applications. But it says nothing about who they're going to grant them for right now, and what preconditions are required in order to travel, especially during the repatriation only flights period.

 

This was from the news just this past Monday:

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Mr Natapanu confirmed that among the next group to be allowed to enter Thailand are those married to Thai nationals and those who hold permanent residency. Specific details regarding the return of this group is expected to be announced at a later date. 

 

 

 

Edited June 20, 2020 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[scoupeo]

14 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Geezus. Glad I'm not stuck out..

Feel bad for guys stuck outside.

 

 

Feel fun for the ones who are stuck outside just because they wanted to travel and have nice vacations in EU or US ! 

hahahaha....

 

 

[CLS]

Conditions are here, but only in Thai.

 

[daveAustin]

14 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Geezus. Glad I'm not stuck out..

Feel bad for guys stuck outside.

I dunno, it's nice to have to drink good beer in a place not owned by China 

Anyway, balls to Thighland for a bit, shall let them dither and lose billions on who they allow in for 12 months, I'm off to Spain. 

[acenase]

Thai Airways already announced that they will be resuming flights to 37 countries starting 1 August...

 

THAI Airways International opens new schedule, set to begin on 1 August 2020.

Starting 1 August 2020:

Bangkok-London: 1 flight/day

Bangkok-Paris: 3 flights/week

Bangkok-Copenhagen: 1 flight/week

Bangkok-New Delhi: 1 flight/day

Bangkok-Denpasar: 3 flights/week

Bangkok-Thagar: 5 flights/week

Bangkok-Frankfurt: 1 flight/day

Bangkok-Guangzhou: 2 flights/week

Bangkok-Hanoi: 1 flight/day

Bangkok-Hong Kong: 1 flight/day

Bangkok-Islamabad: 5 flights/week

Bangkok-Karachi: 4 flights/week

Bangkok-Lahore: 4 flights/week

Bangkok-Melbourne: 5 flights/week

Bangkok-Islamabad: 5 flights/week

Bangkok-Nagoya: 3 flights/week

Bangkok-Osaka: 3 flights/week

Bangkok-Phnom Penh: 1 flight/day

Bangkok-Seoul: 6 flights/week

Bangkok-Sydney: 5 flights/week

Bangkok-Taipei: 1 flight/day

Bangkok-Tokyo (Haneda): 4 flights/week

Bangkok-Tokyo (Narita): 4 flights/week

Bangkok-Vientiane: 1 flight/day

Bangkok-Yangon: 1 flight/day

 

THAI Airways International suspends flights to Milan, Rome, Moscow, Vienna, Stockholm, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Sendai, Kathmandu, Oslo, and Colombo.

 

So is this wrong? Or are they going to be forced to not fly and push back this schedule?

 

Edited June 20, 2020 by acenase

[unheard]

54 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

That's an online visa form for B and O visa applications. But it says nothing about who they're going to grant them for right now, and what preconditions are required in order to travel, especially during the repatriation only flights period.

Same conditions as for the WP holders:

Upon approval - fit to fly certificate , insurance and 14 day self-paid quarantine.

Edited June 20, 2020 by unheard

[berybert]

15 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Perhaps family.

Got to feel sorry for the part time husband and farther missing the part time wife and kids. 

[metisdead]

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[Trillian]

8 hours ago, chrisandsu said:

I don’t believe those numbers at all . The tourism sector employs millions of people directly or indirectly . Be that housing - restaurants - financial support etc etc if they are going to do away with mass tourism they had better start getting the rich and middle class to start paying tax as there will need to be some form of a welfare state or another . 

Many of those millions of people that are employed in a variety of roles to take care of international tourists are also there to cater for domestic tourism, which at 5% or 6% of GDP is less than the international segment at 12% but is still hefty....that's still USD 30 bill. And that means those jobs are still in existence but only required to a lesser degree, let's face it, the tourist industry in Thailand is way over populated with unessential business that are replicated many times over, a cull in that are would actually be a good thing, I think. In the months ahead domestic tourism will become the more important sector which will absorb some of the economic shock.