The first 43 Thai and foreign passengers arrived at Suvarnabhumi international airport during the early hours today (Monday), the first day Thailand reopens to foreign arrivals. Tight health safety controls were in place with more officials present than arriving passengers.

 

The arrivals included 32 Thai nationals and 11 others of various nationalities who flew from Narita international airport in Japan.

 

Wearing full PPE suits, officials checked passengers’ documents, to make sure they met the safety and immigration requirements. All luggage was sprayed with disinfectants before being loaded onto waiting vans, which took them to their pre-booked accommodation.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/first-group-of-43-passengers-arrives-from-japan-as-thailand-reopens-borders-monday/

 

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TAT along with all the idiots associated with  them must be cumming in their respective jocks over this exciting revelation!

Edited November 1, 20214 yr by bdenner

PPE clothing (gowns, gloves, etc...) only provides a protection function if you take it all off and re-suit up between each interaction with different people. That's why you suit up at a hospital when you enter a room, then take it all off as you exit. Interactions with more than one person with the same gloves, etc., is the same as not wearing it at all. (Masks are different as they keep your spittle in no matter how many people you talk to.)

Edited November 1, 20214 yr by JCP108

Are we going to receive a report from every airplane that lands? That would be great!

19 minutes ago, Pravda said:

Are we going to receive a report from every airplane that lands? That would be great!

Along with a running tally, Oh! what excitement - will we be able to cope with it all? 

I sure hope they came to spend a gajillion baht per person per day.

What a poor effort with the PPE.

I was expecting Hazmat suits at least to greet the dirty tourists

So 32 Thai's returning home plus 11 others.

I am guessing six are the Japanese golfers that I get stuck behind every year.

43 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The arrivals included 32 Thai nationals and 11 others of various nationalities who flew from Narita international airport in Japan.

11 from other nationalities.  I sure hope the hotels can keep up with the demand for rooms. 

The officials and workers in the hazmat suits, greeting people who have had a negative Covid test within the last 72 hours, then finish work, go to a packed market on the way home wearing only a mask, and joining a crowd of thousands who may or may not have ever been tested.

 

It seems.....oddly inconsistent.

Edited November 1, 20214 yr by Walker88

What a horrible way to greet fully jabbed tourists; complete overkill. They must have been in 2 minds about turning round and going back to Japan.

7 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

The officials and workers in the hazmat suits, greeting people who have had a negative Covid test within the last 72 hours, then finish work, go to a packed market on the way home wearing only a mask, and joining a crowd of thousands who may or may not have ever been tested.

 

It seems.....oddly inconsistent.

Don’t you know Thai people can only get Covid from foreigners, never from one of their own?

10 minutes ago, Zikomat said:

Don’t you know Thai people can only get Covid from foreigners, never from one of their own?

My bad. Sometimes I forget that as a foreigner, I was born with Original Sin. Born bad.

43 Million by spooky coincidence is the TAT target spending a trillion baht each is now achievable by the end of the year if only there was something open ????

Perhaps there is a misunderstanding.  The people coming into Thailand are vaccinated and tested.  Clearly masks, social distancing and alchohol shoul be used by all.  But HAZMAT suits.  Really.  I wish such efforts would be used at the local schools, markets and shopping areas where the real COVID transmission is taking place.  The central issue is to open up Thailand for the people living here now.  And do it safely.  The people arriving into Thailand under the current protocol will not adversely affect the spread of COVID, in my humble opinion.

A better headline would be 'first tourist flight returns to Thailand since re-opening with only 11 foreign tourists onboard'

 

Wrt the hazmat suits what else did we expect from the dim, xenophobic cretins in charge...

1 hour ago, Willy Wombat said:

What a poor effort with the PPE.

I was expecting Hazmat suits at least to greet the dirty tourists

are all the tourists dirty  ?    I know there are dirty farang in Thailand already 

1 hour ago, Walker88 said:

The officials and workers in the hazmat suits, greeting people who have had a negative Covid test within the last 72 hours, then finish work, go to a packed market on the way home wearing only a mask, and joining a crowd of thousands who may or may not have ever been tested.

 

It seems.....oddly inconsistent.

Inconsistent, have you forgotten where you are? 

1 hour ago, champers said:

What a horrible way to greet fully jabbed tourists; complete overkill. They must have been in 2 minds about turning round and going back to Japan.

Only 11 of them, the rest were Thai.... 

16 minutes ago, mark131v said:

A better headline would be 'first tourist flight returns to Thailand since re-opening with only 11 foreign tourists onboard'

 

Wrt the hazmat suits what else did we expect from the dim, xenophobic cretins in charge...

Right. Do they wear the PPE when interacting with (the many, unvaccinated) travelers on domestic flights? Or, is this to just reaffirm the narrative that foreigners are dirty and dangerous?

I wonder what's the total for Bangkok and Chiang Mai on the first day?

1 minute ago, JCP108 said:

Right. Do they wear the PPE when interacting with (the many, unvaccinated) travelers on domestic flights? Or, is this to just reaffirm the narrative that foreigners are dirty and dangerous?

I think we all know the answer to that!!

 

It's what happens when you have a poor education system and a lack of merit based promotion in all sectors of society, mix in a hearty dose of xenophobia and a lack of democracy with a side order of corruption and you have a recipe for disaster in all sorts of stuff...

1 hour ago, Artisi said:

Along with a running tally, Oh! what excitement - will we be able to cope with it all? 

... and a comparison with the predicted 7,000 international arrivals on 110 international flights
https://aseannow.com/topic/1237437-7000-international-arrivals-due-at-suvarnabhumi-on-monday/

 

You have to wonder how many sparsely populated and loss incurring flights the airlines will operate before it seems like throwing good money after bad - the airlines have their own financial imperatives to meet and apart from Thai, aren't obligated to serve Thai economic aims, as muddled and difficult as they are at present.

 

Still too many additional costs and hassles to get anywhere near the levels of passengers that make flights viable :  case in point - Bali, where I believe no international carrier has taken any landing slot with the so called 'opening.'

 

Ours is a group  of friends that has travelled around SE Asia for 25+ years to play golf, extended diving and beach trips and lots of partying back in the day - as yet, not one of us tempted to return with all the hassle involved. 

53 minutes ago, koratkarlos said:

Perhaps there is a misunderstanding.  The people coming into Thailand are vaccinated and tested.  Clearly masks, social distancing and alchohol shoul be used by all.  But HAZMAT suits.  Really.  I wish such efforts would be used at the local schools, markets and shopping areas where the real COVID transmission is taking place.  The central issue is to open up Thailand for the people living here now.  And do it safely.  The people arriving into Thailand under the current protocol will not adversely affect the spread of COVID, in my humble opinion.

Absolutely true - And these visitors are deemed necessary to revive a ruined Thai economic sector that will benefit many regular Thais, so make them feel welcome

 

1 hour ago, champers said:

What a horrible way to greet fully jabbed tourists; complete overkill. They must have been in 2 minds about turning round and going back to Japan.

The bonkers thing is, all that to 'greet' verifiably vaccinated and tested people then after the shift, taking it all off to have a drink and a meal with a load of people whose status is absolutely unknowable.

Dog and Pony show continues.

God, that photo says it all...welcome to the operating theatre.

 

Beep!....Beep!....Beep !

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43 Thais coming home and 11 foreigners....

 

Of which 9 were crew.

 

Tonight, 9 more bowls of Ramen sold than usual in Sukhumvit.

 

Big money!

36 more than my original gestimate.