Thai Domestic Flights

[Pattaya Spotter]

What's the situation at present regarding domestic flights in Thailand...who's flying and are schedules back to normal?

[mtls2005]

Keeping up with daily schedule changes means your question will be challenging to answer.

 

Did you have a origin and destination in mind?

 

Schedules are NOT "back to normal", assuming normal means pre-COVID.

 

You can check airlines' websites, or airport departures and arrivals to get a feel for schedule/frequency.

 

Thai Smile

Thai VietJet Air

Bangkok Airways

AirAsia

Nok Air

Thai Lion Air

 

all seem to be operating many daily DOMESTIC departures ex-BKK/DMK. 

 

For SBIA/BKK there may be more internaitonal departures than domestic?

 

 

 

[KhunBENQ]

Schedules are not back to normal and changing any other week.

No way of a normal schedule to Phuket e.g. (for whom with zero international tourists?). No domestic flights operated by Thai Airways of course (Phuket, Chiang Mai).

(Thaismile can jump in)

Many routes have a lower frequency.

AirAsia does a significant move of flights to Suvarnabhumi.

etc.etc.

[Pattaya Spotter]

34 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Schedules are not back to normal and changing any other week.

No way of a normal schedule to Phuket e.g. (for whom with zero international tourists?). No domestic flights operated by Thai Airways of course (Phuket, Chiang Mai).

(Thaismile can jump in)

Many routes have a lower frequency.

AirAsia does a significant move of flights to Suvarnabhumi.

etc.etc.

Yes, it looks like AA is the best choice for domestic flights at the moment.

[jacko45k]

Air Asia keep bombarding me with emails promoting Thailand domestic flights.

[Oldie]

Vietjet provides free flights.

 

https://pattayaone.news/its-time-to-vietjet-from-just-thb-0/

[padthaininja]

I'm on Visa amnesty, is it possible to fly to BKK from Phuket ?

[sandyf]

On 8/18/2020 at 8:06 AM, mtls2005 said:

Keeping up with daily schedule changes means your question will be challenging to answer.

 

Did you have a origin and destination in mind?

 

Schedules are NOT "back to normal", assuming normal means pre-COVID.

 

You can check airlines' websites, or airport departures and arrivals to get a feel for schedule/frequency.

 

Thai Smile

Thai VietJet Air

Bangkok Airways

AirAsia

Nok Air

Thai Lion Air

 

all seem to be operating many daily DOMESTIC departures ex-BKK/DMK. 

 

For SBIA/BKK there may be more internaitonal departures than domestic?

 

 

 

Has Nok Air started up again, when I looked a couple of weeks ago they had shut down.

About the same time Thai Smile had a major reschedule and cancelled a lot of mid week flights, our flight back from Krabi next week being one of them, had to rebook for the Friday. 

[mtls2005]

16 hours ago, sandyf said:

Has Nok Air started up again

 

I'd say yes.

 

They had like too many to count departures from DMK yesterday.

 

 

 

 

[tonray]

On 8/18/2020 at 12:46 PM, Pattaya Spotter said:

Yes, it looks like AA is the best choice for domestic flights at the moment.

Not until they refund my March cancelled flights they're not ! 

[tonray]

17 hours ago, padthaininja said:

I'm on Visa amnesty, is it possible to fly to BKK from Phuket ?

Why wouldn't it be possible ?

[marin]

17 hours ago, sandyf said:

Has Nok Air started up again, when I looked a couple of weeks ago they had shut down.

About the same time Thai Smile had a major reschedule and cancelled a lot of mid week flights, our flight back from Krabi next week being one of them, had to rebook for the Friday. 

Nok has been up and flying for at least 6 weeks. I think they are doing a great job in hard times. I just flew them on the 11th to Phuket and the 16th returning. They no longer have as many flights, Phuket twice a day, morning and evening flights both ways.  I left at 930am and was on Phuket before 1030 as there are so few aircraft flying.  Coming back on the return of the same flight at 1120 that left early and arrived in again less than an hour. Luggage was delivered in just 5 minutes at both airports.  For 2,000 baht RT I also had 10 kilos of checked luggage.  

 

So for for me Nok is up and running quite well.

[AAArdvark]

18 hours ago, padthaininja said:

I'm on Visa amnesty, is it possible to fly to BKK from Phuket ?

Not if you plan on flying to another country on the way.

[Bangkok Barry]

On 8/18/2020 at 2:30 PM, Oldie said:

Vietjet provides free flights.

 

https://pattayaone.news/its-time-to-vietjet-from-just-thb-0/

It seems they might provide a great deal more....... If you click on it you get a choice of Vietnamese, English or......

 

[CNXBKKMAN]

Nok Air and Thai VietJet were the only airlines to never to stop flying from Chiang Mai at least. Nok had a single flight every day right through the lockdown. Vietjet missed the odd day but were daily also. 

[GreasyFingers]

On 8/18/2020 at 2:24 PM, jacko45k said:

Air Asia keep bombarding me with emails promoting Thailand domestic flights.

Can you open their links. They do not work for me, but maybe that is because they owe me money.

[sandyf]

5 hours ago, marin said:

Nok has been up and flying for at least 6 weeks. I think they are doing a great job in hard times. I just flew them on the 11th to Phuket and the 16th returning. They no longer have as many flights, Phuket twice a day, morning and evening flights both ways.  I left at 930am and was on Phuket before 1030 as there are so few aircraft flying.  Coming back on the return of the same flight at 1120 that left early and arrived in again less than an hour. Luggage was delivered in just 5 minutes at both airports.  For 2,000 baht RT I also had 10 kilos of checked luggage.  

 

So for for me Nok is up and running quite well.

About 3 weeks ago when I went to the website it was dead. Appears there is a facebook page of people complaining about not being able to book, Nok Air response is try again.

[jacko45k]

3 hours ago, GreasyFingers said:

Can you open their links. They do not work for me, but maybe that is because they owe me money.

Yes, although I rarely bother. No desire now as have seen most of the place.