Thailand plans to resume international flights by November

[BadSpottedDog]

3 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

So they plan:

 

1\ To open Phuket to international tourists on july 1

2\ To open the rest of Thailand on october 1

 

then

3\ To resume international flights by november

 

ok, it makes perfect sense

 

TIT

 

For vaccinated people only. 

[law ling]

2 hours ago, madmen said:

Nothing more than fake news to keep the natives from getting restless. Come November it will be replaced with new great news of a January 2022 opening etc etc... 

 

Correct. It's just the government "talking up the economy" suggesting that all struggling businesses hang in there ... things will be better soon ...

 

If they told something more realistic ... say, that tourism may not return for three years ... all the struggling businesses would just close en masse.

[Mywayboy]

4 hours ago, bdenner said:

What sort of medication is Anutin giving all these jokers, I want some!

He's out of his tree allowing Dirty Farang back into such a spotlessly clean Kingdom.

[Chongalulu]

3 hours ago, phills2k1 said:

I stayed at a prominent hotel for my ASQ in December and I swear to god, I've never had worse food in my life. They even managed to screw up toast somehow

 

Most of my meals ended up just being white rice with prik nam pla to get me by

 

Cost me 85000 baht for that privilege

I stayed at Aloft negotiating a price just over half that and it was difficult to fault the food with plenty of choice too. 

[MrJ2U]

Unless everyone is vaccinated no country in its right mind isnt going to let their citizens visit Thailand and risk getting some variant and bring it back.  Who's going to trust these Thai politicians saying its "safe"?

[kingofthemountain]

13 minutes ago, BadSpottedDog said:

For vaccinated people only. 

So why vaccinated people are forced to go in quarantine now?

It's because Thai people are not vaccinated

and before enough number of Thai people will be vaccinated to avoid the risk of another outbreak, it could take dozens of months

 

Look at how small countries, with more money, a better organisation

and less population like Israel (10 milions vs 70 millions for Thailand)

have managed to vaccinate only 60% of their population in 1 year

and they have now problems to convince the 40% remaining to do it

 

So far there is 0 country in the world having reached the famous

herd immunity rate, nobody knows if the herd immunity is even

possible (With the new strains and the situation in Seychelles for example)

Edited May 15, 2021 by kingofthemountain

[MrJ2U]

8 minutes ago, BadSpottedDog said:

For vaccinated people only. 

Sinovac isn't even listed as an emergency vaccine by WHO.  People vaccinated by that swill won't count in the eyes of more developed countries.

[BadSpottedDog]

Just now, kingofthemountain said:

So why vaccinated people are forced to go in quarantine now?

It's because Thai people are not vaccinated

and before nough Thai people will be vaccinated to avoid the risk

of another outbreak, it could take dozens of months

look at how small countries, with more money, a better organisation

and less population like Israel (10 milions vs 70 millions for Thailand)

have managed to vaccinate only 60% of their population in 1 year

and they have now problems to convince the 40% remaining to do it

Yep. Thailand is shooting itself in the foot for sure. They do not understand how to attract Western tourists. 
I'm supposed to leave TH and come back in Oct, but thinking I will have to cancel all plans. 

[cclub75]

How a country of 70 millions people, that close its schools, its restaurants (dining in) in its capital... for 2000 cases per day, and 20 to 30 deads per day... could reopen its sky borders in november... ?

 

Look at Singapore... And the rule for their "travel bubble" with Hong Kong :

 

the travel bubble will be closed for two weeks if the seven-day moving average of the daily number of unlinked local cases is more than five in either city. It’s currently just above 2 in Singapore and near zero in Hong Kong. (source Bangkok Post)

 

I remind you that Hong Kong = 7,5 millions people... Singapore  = 5,7 millions...

 

And they put the brake threshold at.... 5 cases ! ????

 

The whole region (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia etc.) is as "Covid sensitive" as this...

 

That's the deadly trap of "zero Covid" ideology... Its a myth. It doesn't work.

 

[RobMuir]

1 hour ago, boogiewoogie said:

Straya the greatest! How would world move without australian tourists?

 

He certainly has an overinflated opinion about the importance of Straya to the world.

 

2 hours ago, TheFreqFlyer said:

Why would they come to a police state? 

I actually wonder if you have ever been here. Day to day life here is much more free than Straya.

 

 

[Jeffr2]

34 minutes ago, ukrules said:

 

What do you think's happening in India that hasn't happened everywhere else?

 

Be specific....

Please, don't modify my post.  It's a violation of forum rules.  And without the context, I've got no idea what your on about.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, AlfHuy said:

Relax Mike.

Nice roadwork on photo 4.

 

I can easily do without the hordes of CH..I;Nese.

I know, I know. But the only people who can afford to not take notice of the catastrophic drop in tourism are the wealthy Thais, the ones with a cushy job, or ex-pats with a cushy pension, and money in the bank. Tourism was a $100,000,000,000 industry here. Millions of jobs. Trillions of dollars invested in infrastructure. Trillions. Something has to be done. Someone needs to take action.

 

Many of us did not like the hordes of lower income tourists. Dozens of problems existed long before Covid. And it is likely they have not been addressed, on any level. Less tourism will be nice for alot of us. But, my heart goes out to the millions who made a living from the influx. 

[SamuiFan]

So how do these people from overseas get here if there’s no international flights???? Mad. 

[DrMJA]

4 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

So they plan:

 

1\ To open Phuket to international tourists on july 1

2\ To open the rest of Thailand on october 1

 

then

3\ To resume international flights by november

 

ok, it makes perfect sense

 

TIT

 

Absolute MuPPets ... simply haven't a clue when they speak. 

[Johnthplumb]

4 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

But alas no mention of which year ............................LOL

 Christ, I must be slow this afternoon, never thought of which year, thanks Geoffggi that woke me up.  

[apetryxx]

Is anybody running this railroad? What a giant puzzle factory this pseudo government has become. Let me out of here like yesterday!

[thai006]

cant wait to back home in November without quarantine ; i done the 14 days last year , 1 time enough ????????

Edited May 15, 2021 by thai006

[thailand49]

If they would just stop with all the dreaming, speculation and just concentrate on the virus itself and how to stop it everything will fall into place by itself why continue to work backwards?????  Just too much time dreaming wake up to the bad breathe.

[ukrules]

40 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

Please, don't modify my post.  It's a violation of forum rules.  And without the context, I've got no idea what your on about.

I didn't modify your post, I partially quoted it.

 

It's very clear you have no idea

[boogiewoogie]

31 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I know, I know. But the only people who can afford to not take notice of the catastrophic drop in tourism are the wealthy Thais, the ones with a cushy job, or ex-pats with a cushy pension, and money in the bank. Tourism was a $100,000,000,000 industry here. Millions of jobs. Trillions of dollars invested in infrastructure. Trillions. Something has to be done. Someone needs to take action.

 

Many of us did not like the hordes of lower income tourists. Dozens of problems existed long before Covid. And it is likely they have not been addressed, on any level. Less tourism will be nice for alot of us. But, my heart goes out to the millions who made a living from the influx. 

Im sorry, ur highness, but some peasants need to address few matters.

 

Isnt now the greatest time to be in Thailand? Zero tourists, private pool villas are dirt cheap to rent, zero chinese. Private dining, private entertainment. If u looking for maldives-ish type of holidays thailand now is a place to go. 

And them asq dining fotos from BKK Pullman and Le Meridien are looking good good good.  U can even ASQ in a a private villa! Fool comfort!

 

[newnative]

4 hours ago, TheFreqFlyer said:

What are these jokers smoking? 3.5 million tourists, from where? Australia's borders are likely to remain closed until mid-2022 aside from travel to New Zealand (which opened last month) and a few other "low risk" countries. These could include Singapore, Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and possibly Taiwan and later, Vietnam. Thailand has not been mentioned in the first phase and thus we can probably assume it won't be part of any Australian travel bubble this year.

 

Secondly, in a country that is proving itself to be one of the most totalitarian in the world, what with Buri Ram forcing vaccines on it's residents, Phuket fining and threatening foreigners with deportation for hosting a friend over for a beer in their OWN homes, Surat Thani fining anyone who drinks alcohol at home, and every province issuing fines of 1000-20000 Baht for not wearing a face muzzle, what makes them think tourists will put up with this nonsense?

 

Even those willing to be vaccinated, are not going to put up with this. Isn't the vaccine supposed to allow all our freedoms to return? If tourists are still going to be required to be muzzled in public, including on a Phuket beach, despite being vaccinated, then Thailand can hammer the final nail in the tourism coffin. 

 

At this point in time, there is more liberty in China than in Thailand. I can't imagine the Chinese would be interested in coming to a country where there are no casinos, where the fun police nitpick every thing you do and can potentially deport you for not wearing a face mask. It's happening in Cambodia (Chinese nationals have been deported for not wearing masks or breaking lockdown orders), Bali is doing it and Thailand isn't far behind. 

 

China has tropical beaches too (in Hainan). Aside from Phuket being warm all year-round (whereas Sanya is a little cool between December and February), there is no reason for Chinese to want to come to Thailand. 

Maybe in your view 'no reason for Chinese to want to come' yet nearly 11 million of them did in 2019. 

[BuyBitcoin]

Do people here really think there are no flights?  There are tons of international flights in and out of swampy everyday, right now.

Edited May 15, 2021 by BuyBitcoin

[nkg]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand plans to resume international flights by November, Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said on Friday.

 

There are a large number of airlines already flying into Suvarnabhumi.

 

Today's arrivals include:

 

Emirates
Air India
Etihad
KLM
Qatar
Ethiopian Airlines
Cathay Pacific
Japan Airlines
Shanghai Airlines
Malaysia Airlines
Singapore Airlines
Vietnam Airlines
Oman Air
Zpair Tokyo
Korean Air
Air Japan

 

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

 

 

Edited May 15, 2021 by nkg

[Huckenfell]

5 hours ago, scammed said:

i hate it to go back to winter, but im leaving when they resume direct flight

Why ?

 

[Huckenfell]

1 hour ago, RobMuir said:

 

He certainly has an overinflated opinion about the importance of Straya to the world.

 

I actually wonder if you have ever been here. Day to day life here is much more free than Straya.

 

 

Rubbish, here in Queensland, life is completely free with no restrictions such as you have in Tailand.

[Huckenfell]

18 minutes ago, nkg said:

 

There are a large number of airlines already flying into Suvarnabhumi.

 

Today's arrivals include:

 

Emirates
Air India
Etihad
KLM
Qatar
Ethiopian Airlines
Cathay Pacific
Japan Airlines
Shanghai Airlines
Malaysia Airlines
Singapore Airlines
Vietnam Airlines
Oman Air
Zpair Tokyo
Korean Air
Air Japan

 

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

 

 

Is Air Asia not yet flying ?

[Andycoops]

November, they can't even implement a plan for next week, already they are putting back vaccinations for people they said would get jabs.

The military Muppets can't strategies anything to do with health because they aren't qualified and won't listen to the science.

Power corrupts, absolute Czar power, corrupts absolutely.

[raccos21]

[polpott]

5 hours ago, Ventenio said:

Thailand plans to resume international flights by November Thailand plans to resume international flights by October

Thailand plans to resume international flights by next week Thailand plans to resume international flights by next month Thailand plans to resume international flights by July

 Thailand plans to resume international flights by 5 p.m. today

Thailand plans to resume international flights by next year

 

Just pick one.......then tomorrow pick another one........

I didn't realise that they'd stopped international flights. I flew to Amsterdam at the end of April and fully intend to fly back at the end of July. Am I missing something?

[the green light]

5 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

So they plan:

 

1\ To open Phuket to international tourists on july 1

2\ To open the rest of Thailand on october 1

 

then

3\ To resume international flights by november

 

ok, it makes perfect sense

 

TIT

 

All is based on the condition that 70% of the population  is inoculated after October. My math tells me , it is roughly 40 million people

 

Between October to December that is roughly 90 days..  that is half a million per day.. very aggressive plan.

 

Opening phuket still required a fake quarantine . As long as there is quarantine and restriction in moving around, Nobody will show up in Thailand. 

 

Before anybody can fly from Thailand, it will be best to get vaccinated to easily enter other countries. Foe international flights to resume, you need to check the other side entry requirements. 

 

Without vaccination, life will not go back to normal.. It will take a good 6 month after the vaccination drive starts before we can talk about tourism coming back.