Covid chaos descends again on Thailand’s foreign tourism sector amid cancellations and complaints

[sandyf]

5 hours ago, Woof999 said:

Those will be code shares, at least on the leg into BKK.

 

https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-defers-bangkok-flights-goes-double-daily-singapore/

 

No BA metal into Thailand for at least another couple of months.

Do BA sell tickets from UK to Thailand?, it is a YES or NO answer.

 

There is no such thing as "BA metal", BA is owned by IAG and Qatar Airways is the major shareholder in IAG.

Flying BA from London to BKK via Doha, first leg with the monkey and second leg with the organ grinder.

[jackson2513]

11 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

But "no discrimination"... ????

it's as if possessing a Thai PP magically immunes one from carrying or transmitting Covid?! A pile ????IMO.

 

[Mickmouse1]

10 hours ago, Guemlum said:

“Non-Thai passengers arriving from countries which refuse entry to infected people must have taken out COVID insurance, valid throughout their stay in Thailand plus seven days, before their departure for Thailand.”

 

What exactly do they mean by this? The wife and I are going to Thailand on 8th March and will return to the UK on 5th April. Does our insurance now have to be valid until the 12th April?

If you google translate to Thai, we might get the answer..????????

[Confuscious]

2 hours ago, Photoguy21 said:

Tourists will just start avoiding Thailand. After all the rules change as quickly as the weather in Europe. 

As soon as the files are lifted, tourists will return to Thailand.

This was proven a few months ago.

So, stop with the usual words that this will be the end.

Too many old farangs wanting a kiddy woman at the price of a hot-dog.

Not counting the freaks who want 2 ladybous.

[sandyf]

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

Can you now. I think you will find that you end up on an Emirates code share plane for the second leg - because BA don't fly to Thailand any more ????

Not Emirates, it is Qatar who virtually own BA. Where do you think BA got a/c and crews from during the strike.

At the end of the day if you buy your ticket from BA, you are flying with BA as it is their "Conditions of Carriage" that will apply.

[Shop mak]

Not vaccinated, now welcome.

Proof of vaccination, no longer a requirement.

 

First time in 2,5 decades that I feel I should leave.

Next months peak of newly infected will be sky high, just wait after Songkran

 

 

[Woof999]

9 minutes ago, sandyf said:

Do BA sell tickets from UK to Thailand?, it is a YES or NO answer.

 

There is no such thing as "BA metal", BA is owned by IAG and Qatar Airways is the major shareholder in IAG.

Flying BA from London to BKK via Doha, first leg with the monkey and second leg with the organ grinder.

"Do BA sell tickets from UK to Thailand?, it is a YES or NO answer." YES.

Do Trailfinders sell tickets from UK to Thailand? (that's also a YES or NO answer). YES. Can I fly Trailfinders to Thailand. NO.

 

Your original comment was "You can fly with BA to Thailand via Doha or Hong Kong." You can fly codeshare on another airline with tickets purchase through BA. They might even have a BA flight number, but the aircraft wont be BA (or IAG), they wont even be wet leased by BA. They will be wholly operated by (from your examples) Qatar Airways or Cathay Pacific.

 

By the way - if there is no such thing as BA metal because IAG owns BA and Qatar Airways is the major shareholder in IAG then "you can fly with BA to Thailand" must be even more impossible at the moment because IAG owns BA and Qatar Airways is the major shareholder in IAG. That logic would hold true even if it were a BA liveried aircraft, which it wont be because...

 

BA do not currently fly scheduled service to Thailand.

[anchadian]

As you were:

 

PRESS RELEASE: The Tourism Authority of Thailand would like to clarify that Thailand continues to welcome all international tourists under the fully-reopen-to-tourism policy that was introduced on 1 October, 2022. Full story: 

https://www.tatnews.org/2023/01/thailand-maintains-fully-reopen-entry-rules/

 

 

Edited January 9, 2023 by anchadian

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, mikeymike100 said:

Only morons say everyone should be vaccinated?

Well he didn't say that did he?

[metisdead]

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Edited January 9, 2023 by metisdead

[An0n]

4 hours ago, An0n said:

that's exactly it.

 

 

And somebody asked for the proof of quotes of the pic I posted earlier (which seemingly is removed).

Here's Fauci,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQDCwRSnzU
the rest, do you own work on digging harder
thank you very much for making me spend extra 5 minutes of search on this one.

[jacko45k]

3 minutes ago, An0n said:

And somebody asked for the proof of quotes of the pic I posted earlier (which seemingly is removed).

Here's Fauci,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQDCwRSnzU
the rest, do you own work on digging harder
thank you very much for making me spend extra 5 minutes of search on this one.

Isn't this from a year ago?

[TingTonger]

1000’s of Russians Un- Vaxed  and China bringing all their Variants and their Worthless China Vaccinations  because Winnie doesn’t want to use Western efficient Vaccines , Biological Disaster Looming…

[TingTonger]

34 minutes ago, Shop mak said:

Not vaccinated, now welcome.

Proof of vaccination, no longer a requirement.

 

First time in 2,5 decades that I feel I should leave.

Next months peak of newly infected will be sky high, just wait after Songkran

 

 

This could be a Disaster , I didn’t leave last time but maybe no choice this time  

[audaciousnomad]

All this confusion is because they don't want to craft all these rules tailored to specific country(ies) without naming/shaming the country they are targeting.  We all know who it's for.  

[peter zwart]

7 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

The man who put this in motion is groomed to become Thailand's next Prime Minister...

Then you immediately know what the future of Thailand is. 
 

[Merrill]

Discrimination in its purest form 

[racket]

The land of smiles ????

I mean land of scams, obviously.

 

Other SE Asian countries must be laughing.

[peter zwart]

Maybe they can read this peer reviewed study before they demand such things.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22010283

[Rimmer]

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[Photoguy21]

2 hours ago, Confuscious said:

As soon as the files are lifted, tourists will return to Thailand.

This was proven a few months ago.

So, stop with the usual words that this will be the end.

Too many old farangs wanting a kiddy woman at the price of a hot-dog.

Not counting the freaks who want 2 ladybous.

 

2 hours ago, Confuscious said:

As soon as the files are lifted, tourists will return to Thailand.

This was proven a few months ago.

So, stop with the usual words that this will be the end.

Too many old farangs wanting a kiddy woman at the price of a hot-dog.

Not counting the freaks who want 2 ladybous.

You have just summed up the freak culture that the country tends to attract. You are probably right there again they can always go to Cambodia or Vietnam.

[blazes]

4 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

There are any number of reason why some people have not been vaccinated, some medical, some very personal? Only morons say everyone should be vaccinated?

Hold it, Mike: are you seriously calling Joe Biden and Fauci morons???

Better hope the FBI are not listening (or reading).  It's simply not allowed these days to question the actions of our ruling classes.

 

(Sorry, Mike, I apologise if you are not American; I made that assumption too quickly.)

Edited January 9, 2023 by blazes

[BumGun]

16 hours ago, RAZZELL said:

Thai passport holders exempt ????

Bit hard to exempt citizens of the country from entry wouldn't you say ? Up to the countries who receive them when they leave Thailand  if they want proof of vaccination..  I guess they could insist Thai citizens are vaccinated before leaving  but the usual suspects in here would bang on about discrimination if it wasn't applied to foreigners I guess.  

 

As a precedent, Australia and New Zealand did ban their own citizens from arriving during the height of Covid, , with unfortunately very broad support from locals who were already home.

[3NUMBAS]

its ripping in the uk now with monkey pox as well you get a double dose

[khaowong1]

16 hours ago, ukrules said:

They have covid in China, we have it here, it's in Europe and you can't stop it from spreading so they don't technically need to do anything.

Someone demanded this.

 

I wonder why they changed anything at all, after some period of time it will all return to normal like nothing happened - only in this case they've 'annoyed' every single country in the world except china.

 

Agreed. 

[spidermike007]

19 hours ago, cheapcanuck said:

Can someone please explain this poorly worded rule? 

Is it dependent on the travelers own country accepting covid infected people? What country would ever accept anyone infected with covid?

It appears to be juvenile tit for tat behavior. On a diplomatic level. 

 

Woe is Thailand, with this kind of mickey mouse leadership. Or lack, thereof. 

[spidermike007]

17 hours ago, nchuckle said:

Hanlon’s razor and the Dunning Kruger effect explains all you reference.

Well, in this case, I believe it is both malice and stupidity combined. Add in hubris, and you have a lethal combination. And who suffers? As usual, the average Thai. One could argue they don't deserve this. Then again, one could argue they let it happen, and are not doing anything about it now. 

[Harveyboy]

22 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

Reap what you sow! Anutin & Thailand! Next up we'll see TAT announcing "tourist arrivals lower than expected" in 2023 due to new covid restrictions. Why surprised at this <deleted> show?

 

 

they cried into their somtam when they were at the point of Starving no Tourists stupid acts like this could cause the same thing...let the greedy government feed them this time Nail in the coffin ...Thailand just finds ways to make it foooooking difficult for foreigners to get into this bloody country..perhaps we should stop trying eh !!!

 

[JensenZ]

22 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

Reap what you sow! Anutin & Thailand! Next up we'll see TAT announcing "tourist arrivals lower than expected" in 2023 due to new covid restrictions. Why surprised at this <deleted> show?

 

 

Anutin is not suffering and will continue to receive his salary. It's the hotel owners who are reaping what Anutin sows - losing a lot of business.

[JensenZ]

21 hours ago, RAZZELL said:

Thai passport holders exempt ????

That's correct. Anutin has made it quite clear on numerous occasions that foreigners are dirty.