First group of 43 passengers arrives from Japan as Thailand reopens borders Monday

[Petey11]

What a welcome, greeted by fully clad in PPE officials, nothing like making people feel welcome, treating them like they are all carrying Ebola.

[Blumpie]

5 hours ago, Pravda said:

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

 

[RichardColeman]

well, that's 11 of the 7,000 due today , any news on the missing 6989 ?

[welshguy]

4 hours 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.

Great post.....

 

If only those in charge had any common sense whatsoever. it would benefit Thailand and its people massively.

 

Im desperate to come back to Thailand..

 

No way in hell though, am I desperate to go through all the hoops, just to enter Thailand. THEN!  To be greeted by a massive overkill on arrival. to then have another test, go to some hotel, wait for the results ("personally" I wouldnt put much trust in the results anyway!),.

 

THEN! 

 

When (If!) you manage to do the above, off you go.....be aware though, lots of things arent open, if you want a sociable drink etc. (yes I know you can buy a drink in 7 or similar!     who wants that? Certainly not  the mega millionaires T.A.T. want in!) then tough luck.

 

I love Thailand, i was "hoping" next year January/February time, it may be open "properly".....with each passing day, I get less hopeful though!

[lolalol]

What happened to 7,000 tourists supposedly arriving..........uh........yesterday?

[lolalol]

25 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

well, that's 11 of the 7,000 due today , any news on the missing 6989 ?

yeah man. i was just thinking the same.

[Captain Monday]

6 hours ago, JCP108 said:

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.)

It's part of the dog and any show called "Clean Theatre".

Spray disinfect luggage? Makes more sense to send passengers to a Shower and burn their clothes

like reception at a concentration camp for lepers

[Virt]

Totally overkill and pictures like this will make people think twice before buying tickets to Thailand.

 

No idea why, but it reminds me of an episode of Soap.

[Blumpie]

56 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

well, that's 11 of the 7,000 due today , any news on the missing 6989 ?

This is like the return of Jesus, LOL!!!  

[RichardColeman]

22 minutes ago, Blumpie said:

This is like the return of Jesus, LOL!!!  

Not even Jesus could revive Thai tourism with this lot in charge !

[FalangTingTong]

Sounds like progress!  When I came in February, pre-vaccine, only a few people had the PPE suits, nobody had an actual hazmat suit, and my luggage wasn't sprayed with anything at all.

 

[Walker88]

Perhaps a tourist or two---quality tourists, by the way---should arrive in full hazmat gear and start spraying disinfectant on the Thai officials and "welcoming committee", then say, "Sorry, but I KNOW I'm clean, but I just can't be too careful with all of you people".

[henry213]

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

well, that's 11 of the 7,000 due today , any news on the missing 6989 ?

 

[zzaa09]

5 hours ago, Petey11 said:

What a welcome, greeted by fully clad in PPE officials, nothing like making people feel welcome, treating them like they are all carrying Ebola.

They must've not received the memo that the dreaded COVID doesn't stay alive terribly long on surfaces and isn't transmitted in such a matter.........this was understood five months in [early covid era]. 

 

The biohazard garbs aren't necessary nor is the incessive wiping down of everything and anything. 

[jacko45k]

6 hours ago, Petey11 said:

What a welcome, greeted by fully clad in PPE officials, nothing like making people feel welcome, treating them like they are all carrying Ebola.

Why Ebola? Keep it real, Covid!

[josephbloggs]

10 hours ago, steven100 said:

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

Nearly two years since he made that comment.  When are you planning on getting over it?  It is getting extremely boring now.

[Danderman123]

10 hours ago, HeijoshinCool said:

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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!

The photos are of Ana flight 805, which arrives at 00.05. I have taken that flight, and that's a normal passenger load these days. 

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Tight health safety controls were in place with more officials present than arriving passengers.

 

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

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

Speaks volumes.

[HeijoshinCool]

Just now, Danderman123 said:

The photos are of Ana flight 805, which arrives at 00.05. I have taken that flight, and that's a normal passenger load these days. 

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I had 26 on my ANA flight a few weeks' back.....

 

Love that airline, though, great service.

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

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.

Fully inoculated, tested and already proved safe to travel being treated like lepers at the airport.

Welcome to Thailand.

[Danderman123]

6 hours ago, lolalol said:

What happened to 7,000 tourists supposedly arriving..........uh........yesterday?

This is just one flight. 

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, Thailand said:

So 32 Thai's returning home plus 11 others.

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

The other 5 are checking out factories?

[mvdf]

13 hours ago, bdenner said:

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

How graphic. Thank you. Helped divert my thoughts from other exciting revelations.

[khunPer]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

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

So 11 foreigners, who might not all be tourists tourists...????

[paul1804]

16 hours ago, Zikomat said:

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

And if they drink alcohol in a restaurant !!

[crazykopite]

Mainly Thais returning home they are not tourists in all honesty the people I see returning will be Thai nationals or ex pats who got caught up in Covid and are returning I cannot see many tourists arriving until early next years providing the restrictions have all been lifted 

[Cake Monster]

An Airline flying from Japan with a payload of only 43 Passengers !

The Airline must either be so desperate for any Passengers at all, or they are being subsidized by somebody.

The Economics just dont justify the Airplane even taking off.

[jacko45k]

19 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

An Airline flying from Japan with a payload of only 43 Passengers !

The Airline must either be so desperate for any Passengers at all, or they are being subsidized by somebody.

The Economics just dont justify the Airplane even taking off.

A wonderful backdrop to the recent announcement by the top man at COP26.