U-Tapao Airport Eyes Direct Flights from India to Lure Tourists

[webfact]

 

Pattaya — U-Tapao International Airport, located near Pattaya, is making an effort to attract direct flights from India, eyeing the vast potential of the Indian tourism market.

In a meeting held on Friday, December 15th, Admiral Ekasittichai Tangjai, Director of U-Tapao airport, met with Ms. Natsuda Mettaprasert, Deputy Consul General to India, and Mr. Navaid Desai, General Manager of Customer Relations at INDIGO Airlines.

 

The meeting, held at U-Tapao airport, focused on exploring collaboration opportunities between the airline and the airport. Admiral Ekasittichai extended a warm invitation to the delegates, aiming to foster confidence among Indian tourists about the ease and convenience of flying directly to U-Tapao airport.

 

By Tanakorn Panyadee

 

Full story: THE PATTAYA NEWS 2023-12-20

 

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[worgeordie]

to lure tourists .....pssst ,psst want to come to Pattaya for holiday ,don't bring any Gold with you.

'lure' it sounds sleazy , 

 

regards worgeordie 

[steven100]

10 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

to lure tourists .....pssst ,psst want to come to Pattaya for holiday ,don't bring any Gold with you.

'lure' it sounds sleazy , 

 

regards worgeordie 

 

agree .....   ' lure '   sounds like entrapment or to catch ....     maybe better chosen word like ' encourage or entice '   

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, worgeordie said:

to lure tourists .....pssst ,psst want to come to Pattaya for holiday ,don't bring any Gold with you.

'lure' it sounds sleazy , 

 

regards worgeordie 

Welcome is the word they're looking for WELCOME... NOT Lure.

[JoePai]

Bring back the Udon flight !!!!!!!!!!! 

[Keep Right]

Great news, I cannot wait to see more packs of Indian men walking down the middle of the street.

[Nickcage49]

I was just saying today is that what we need here in Pattaya are more Indian tourists...

[Mike Lister]

The Beach Road girls will  be thrilled, ten for the price of one.

[Mr Meeseeks]

Their dreams of having a World Class 60 million capacity airport within the EEC at Utapao look to be a tad farfetched. 

 

Navy needs that money, so Indian tourists on budget carriers it will have to be.

[greeneking]

7 hours ago, worgeordie said:

to lure tourists .....pssst ,psst want to come to Pattaya for holiday ,don't bring any Gold with you.

'lure' it sounds sleazy , 

 

regards worgeordie 

Yes, for sure.  Smoeone is trying to trick someone into doing something unwise.  Who is it keeps bringing up this word?  They should be told.

[CanadaSam]

I don't know why they can not bring another "walking street" into a dead city, and "lure" the indians there.  I'm sure there are enough of them to sustain said dead city.  Please don't bring them into Pattaya, we got quite enough already!

[jacko45k]

21 hours ago, worgeordie said:

to lure tourists .....pssst ,psst want to come to Pattaya for holiday ,don't bring any Gold with you.

'lure' it sounds sleazy , 

 

regards worgeordie 

From what I hear it's a sleazy trip to Pattaya, shhh, tell the wife you are on a business trip to Bangalore!

[jacko45k]

13 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

I don't know why they can not bring another "walking street" into a dead city, and "lure" the indians there.  I'm sure there are enough of them to sustain said dead city.  Please don't bring them into Pattaya, we got quite enough already!

It is not the way it works... they basically take over and push the current residents out, like Leicester. Could move to Phuket, nope, Russians got that, perhaps we need to build up Ban Chang or Bang Saray?

[Henryford]

18 hours ago, Keep Right said:

Great news, I cannot wait to see more packs of Indian men walking down the middle of the street.

 

Holding hands three abreast

[mikebell]

On 12/20/2023 at 8:47 AM, webfact said:

U-Tapao International Airport, located near Pattaya, is making an effort

Not in my experience.  The place is a dump; scruffy; unfinished; poor service; riddled with mosquitoes.  Don't even think of emailing them in English.  International travellers can't get any refreshments without a Thai App on their phones!  The ludicrous rule 'no photos taking off/landing' shows how dumb the owners (Thai navy) are in not having heard of global Earth which has already photographed EVERYTHING and published it on line right down to the defunct aircraft carrier.

[Danderman123]

UTapao could certainly use more flights. The airport is underused, and has a lot of excess capacity.

 

Back in the day, there were flights from UTP to Isaan, very handy for bargirls.

[Georgealbert]

19 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

UTapao could certainly use more flights. The airport is underused, and has a lot of excess capacity.

 

Back in the day, there were flights from UTP to Isaan, very handy for bargirls.

In 2023 the government approved that the Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (Aerothai) could carry out a project worth 1.25 billion baht that would upgrade air navigation services at U-Tapao, to ensure that the airport, which is being planned to be developed as a third major commercial airport, with said project to be completed by 2025.

 

The Transport Ministry also hopes are that air traffic at U-Tapao airport in 2048 will grow to about 241,100 flights a year, (70 million passengers) under a plan by the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) and Eastern Special Development Zone Policy (EEC), draft details from 2020 attached, to show the dream.

 

https://www.aiib.org/en/projects/details/2022/_download/thailand/P000575_Thailand-U-Tapao-International-Airport-Expansion-Project-EHIA-Chapter-2-English.pdf

 

[Danderman123]

9 minutes ago, Georgealbert said:

In 2023 the government approved that the Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (Aerothai) could carry out a project worth 1.25 billion baht that would upgrade air navigation services at U-Tapao, to ensure that the airport, which is being planned to be developed as a third major commercial airport, with said project to be completed by 2025.

 

 

I suspect that UTapao growth will happen in 2047. Before then, not much.

 

I checked the Google for Aerothai progress at UTapao.

 

Nothing since the announcement in 2023.

Edited March 26 by Danderman123

[Georgealbert]

10 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

I suspect that UTapao growth will happen in 2047. Before then, not much.

I was only repeating government statements/dreams, I can not really see it happening as AOT (Airports of Thailand) have always said it does not have any plan to transfer the business of U-Tapao International Airport, from the RTN to AOT, and hence it would be competition to AOTs big money earning Bangkok airports.

Edited March 26 by Georgealbert

[champers]

Pre Covid, direct flights from Doha, Qatar had begun and Air Asia ran flights to 9 different Thai cities, with a new terminal built to service them.

Covid has a lot to answer for.