Just now, FlyingThai said:

Nonsense. Lufthansa flies 4x per week ex BKK and their flight leaves every single time. None of these flights are being cancelled.

 

Stop looking at the airport website, their data has been incorrect for months already.

So they are leaving?

2 minutes ago, JacksSmirkingRevenge said:

Really?   Because if I do need to leave, that's one of my only true options.  ????

You can book Lufthansa, KLM or Qatar Airways. All of these flights leave. He's just too dense to check properly and spouts nonsense.

 

The rates for Lufthansa are pretty reasonable and available as mileage tickets as well. Also Thai Airways has scheduled a bunch of "special flights" to Europe that are all bookable and guaranteed to leave as they pick up Thai repatriates on the way back.

5 minutes ago, adrianb said:

Not true flights to Frankfurt with Lufthansa have been bookable all month. They have not left once.

Friends have bought tickets on KLM to Europe during the pandemic , booked a few days before and flew.

Try another airline 

8 minutes ago, adrianb said:

Not true flights to Frankfurt with Lufthansa have been bookable all month. They have not left once.

Like these flights?

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/lh773

11 minutes ago, adrianb said:

17 minutes ago, Phillip9 said:

but most of those flights were cancelled months ago.  if you book any flight scheduled for the next week, it will almost certainly fly.  

 

 

Not true flights to Frankfurt with Lufthansa have been bookable all month. They have not left once.

It flew yesterday

 

 

19 minutes ago, adrianb said:

Trying to get to Turkey but have to transit in Europe. Lufthansa and Swiss Air have been regularly cancelled.

Qatar airline has been about the most reliable airline.  They fly bangkok-doha-istanbul.

37 minutes ago, 2530Ubon said:

2 years ago, my NON-IMM B visa ran out on a saturday. Due to having to do an English camp on that day, I couldn't leave. I drove to Phibum on Sunday and exited the country via mukdahan friendship bridge to obtain a VOA. I had to pay a 500 baht fee. It's also worth noting that overstaying makes you ineligible to apply for any extension or conversion. Hope this helps!

You were able to go to Laos? Or was that 2 years ago? If so, then I don't think it helps.

7 minutes ago, Phillip9 said:

Qatar airline has been about the most reliable airline.  They fly bangkok-doha-istanbul.

If you have transit in Qatar you need a negative test 

27 minutes ago, Chivas said:

They wont be extended further and rightly so.

I hope you won't be too disappointed if the Thai Govt has a different opinion than you and chooses to extend the amnesty.

 

Apparently this issue is very important to you, for reasons known only to you. If it wasn't important to you that 'those amnesty guys' get booted out, you wouldn't be perusing this and other amnesty-related threads. One wonders what aspect of your life is affected by some foreigners remaining in Thailand. One also wonders if you give any thought to Thai people whose incomes will drop and whose jobs may be lost when all of us leave and stop staying in hotels, eating in restaurants, taking taxis, etc.

 

4 minutes ago, JacksSmirkingRevenge said:

If you have transit in Qatar you need a negative test 

no that is not true

2 minutes ago, vermin on arrival said:

You were able to go to Laos?

2 years ago - in and out of Thailand for a 30 day stamp at the end of my teaching contract.

2 minutes ago, 2530Ubon said:

2 years ago - in and out of Thailand for a 30 day stamp at the end of my teaching contract.

Ok. Not the same now. I don't think that helps. Are there any reports of that being allowed now? I sincerely doubt it. Anyone?

2 minutes ago, vermin on arrival said:

Ok. Not the same now. I don't think that helps. Are there any reports of that being allowed now? I sincerely doubt it. Anyone?

as 26th is a saturday usually grace is enjoyed till next opening day of immigration for ones stay before overstay is incurred

 

I was pointing out that there is no grace period - if you overstay, you pay. Also makes you ineligible for an extension.

4 hours ago, JacksSmirkingRevenge said:

Richard Burrow doesn't think there be an extension and he didn't push for one last like the previous times. 

UbonJoe thinks it'll be happen. 

I am not sure. .

I hope so.  

How about the third option? With all the talk of an imminent 270 day tourist visa becoming available because they're desperate for long stay tourists who present less of a covid risk, it'd be daft to not offer an in-country option to the longstay tourists already here that present no covid risk.

Pattaya News 

 

More soon but The Thai Cabinet has approved, in principle, a special tourist visa to allow 90 day stays for 2000 baht with two 90 day renewals. This is not, however, intended for those on amnesty or in the country now but an option for long stay tourists who plan to enter the country during proposed tourist programs. As the plan was just approved today (in principle) it will likely take some to roll out to embassies and for details to be official.

17 minutes ago, FlyingThai said:

Nonsense. Lufthansa flies 4x per week ex BKK and their flight leaves every single time. None of these flights are being cancelled.

 

Stop looking at the airport website, their data has been incorrect for months already.

Thank you good to know. I hope you are correct. Are you 100% sure on that?

Just now, adrianb said:

Thank you good to know. I hope you are correct. Are you 100% sure on that?

Flights leaving tonight for Amsterdam (x3)  and Paris 

https://www.bangkokairportonline.com/flight-status-departures/

 

 

27 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

I hope you won't be too disappointed if the Thai Govt has a different opinion than you and chooses to extend the amnesty.

 

Apparently this issue is very important to you, for reasons known only to you. If it wasn't important to you that 'those amnesty guys' get booted out, you wouldn't be perusing this and other amnesty-related threads. One wonders what aspect of your life is affected by some foreigners remaining in Thailand. One also wonders if you give any thought to Thai people whose incomes will drop and whose jobs may be lost when all of us leave and stop staying in hotels, eating in restaurants, taking taxis, etc.

 

Well said. There are a quite a few people here, who seem to begrudge anyone their little bit of good fortune.    

 

//Edit: deleted incomprehensible part of the post.

22 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

I hope you won't be too disappointed if the Thai Govt has a different opinion than you and chooses to extend the amnesty.

 

Apparently this issue is very important to you, for reasons known only to you. If it wasn't important to you that 'those amnesty guys' get booted out, you wouldn't be perusing this and other amnesty-related threads. One wonders what aspect of your life is affected by some foreigners remaining in Thailand. One also wonders if you give any thought to Thai people whose incomes will drop and whose jobs may be lost when all of us leave and stop staying in hotels, eating in restaurants, taking taxis, etc.

 

What has stopped you from getting a long term visa ?

16 minutes ago, bwoy32 said:

Pattaya News 

 

More soon but The Thai Cabinet has approved, in principle, a special tourist visa to allow 90 day stays for 2000 baht with two 90 day renewals. This is not, however, intended for those on amnesty or in the country now but an option for long stay tourists who plan to enter the country during proposed tourist programs. As the plan was just approved today (in principle) it will likely take some to roll out to embassies and for details to be official.

Well, this reads like there is no amnesty extension and they definitely what the people on amnesty out.

5 minutes ago, FizziBublech said:

Well, this reads like there is no amnesty extension and they definitely what the people on amnesty out.

Oh boy, those same people who got upset over the amnesty are not going to be too thrilled if this long term tourist visa comes to fruition. 

Cabinet okays 9-month visas for foreigners

National

Sep 15. 2020

 

The Cabinet has approved a proposal of issuing long-stay visas for foreigners visiting Thailand.

Deputy government spokesperson Traisuree Taisaranakul said on Tuesday (September 15) that the Cabinet has agreed to allow foreigners to live in Thailand for up to nine months per trip, provided they can prove they have spent 14 days in quarantine.

The first visit will allow 90 days of stay, which can then be extended twice totalling nine months.

This measure will start from next month, and up to 1,200 tourists per month will be granted this extended visa.

 

Source : The Nation Thailand - https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30394581

5 minutes ago, Wilsonandson said:

Cabinet okays 9-month visas for foreigners

National

Sep 15. 2020

 

The Cabinet has approved a proposal of issuing long-stay visas for foreigners visiting Thailand.

Deputy government spokesperson Traisuree Taisaranakul said on Tuesday (September 15) that the Cabinet has agreed to allow foreigners to live in Thailand for up to nine months per trip, provided they can prove they have spent 14 days in quarantine.

The first visit will allow 90 days of stay, which can then be extended twice totalling nine months.

This measure will start from next month, and up to 1,200 tourists per month will be granted this extended visa.

 

Source : The Nation Thailand - https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30394581

Not much different to the current METV , now just dont have to leave Thailand to get an extension 

They spend time crafting a new tourist visa to bring 1000 people/month while hundreds of thousands are still inside their borders.

It seems that their only goal is increasing the number of "new tourists", extending the stay of existing tourists won't increase this shiny counter so they don't seem to care.

5 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Not much different to the current METV , now just dont have to leave Thailand to get an extension 

Except if you are already here. If you're in that group it's same-same but different:   "Yes, we know you are covid-free, and already safe/secure. Now get the <deleted> out of here! And come back in so we can test you again and you can fund our hotel chains with a 60K stay for 2 weeks!"  ???? 

 

good news for those currently locked out

 

 

The cabinet has met and it seems their focus was on the new visa.  Well, that's nice.  If I could get it within Thailand.  I wish we can get that visa without leaving Thailand. 

And not too many people will quarantine for 14 days.  Not at current prices and not when there are other countries with no requirements. 

10 minutes ago, uberfarang said:

They spend time crafting a new tourist visa to bring 1000 people/month while hundreds of thousands are still inside their borders.

It seems that their only goal is increasing the number of "new tourists", extending the stay of existing tourists won't increase this shiny counter so they don't seem to care.

Many on this forum are too hung up on their own definition of "tourist".

 

"According to the definition of UNWTO “a visitor (domestic, inbound or outbound) is classified as a tourist, if his/her trip includes an overnight stay” (UNWTO, 2014, p. 12)."

https://dugi-doc.udg.edu/bitstream/handle/10256/14825/GhanemJoey_Treball.pdf

Conceptualizing “the Tourist”: A critical review of UNWTO definition

1 hour ago, 2530Ubon said:

2 years ago, my NON-IMM B visa ran out on a saturday. Due to having to do an English camp on that day, I couldn't leave. I drove to Phibum on Sunday and exited the country via mukdahan friendship bridge to obtain a VOA. I had to pay a 500 baht fee. It's also worth noting that overstaying makes you ineligible to apply for any extension or conversion. Hope this helps!

I got an overstay way back in April and am now allowed to apply for a one year extension for marriage,I will see if the overstay becomes an issue when I apply.