Pattaya Spotter Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 What's the situation at present regarding domestic flights in Thailand...who's flying and are schedules back to normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 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? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) 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. Edited August 18, 2020 by KhunBENQ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattaya Spotter Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Air Asia keep bombarding me with emails promoting Thailand domestic flights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldie Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Vietjet provides free flights. https://pattayaone.news/its-time-to-vietjet-from-just-thb-0/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padthaininja Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I'm on Visa amnesty, is it possible to fly to BKK from Phuket ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyf Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonray Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonray Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marin Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AAArdvark Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNXBKKMAN Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreasyFingers Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyf Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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