So usually in times of crisis when there is a major natural disaster or something similar we get estimates of how much the damage will cost. The same goes for when something is closed, so does anyone have any rough estimates on how much money per day is being lost due to Swampy Boom and Dong Muang being closed?

Internal Flights of 200 seats generate approx USD23,000 per hour of flight time less running costs. Air Asia cancelled 83 flights so do the maths. They cannot tell the leasing company to take a holiday on the payments so yeah, its getting more disastrous each minute that passes. Then you have international flights like KLM for instance who has been forced to fly everyone onto KL Malaysia, the most expensive landing fees in the region. Then KLM has also footed the bill for hotels - in this case Grand Blue Wave at Sha Alam. So in real terms 340 pax off one flight, huge inter-Asia regional and number of flights would add to millions per day very easily. The main carriers like Qantas, BA, Emirates, Gulf Air, and all the large international from Europe have all quit on Thailand at present. Peak season just started, peak disaster. But the PAD don't give a hoot and nether do the red shirts. Idiots - the lot. They are killing their country minute by minute.

very difficult to quantify the costs, safe to say the loss is very heavy

This will do as much damage to Thailand as 911 did to the USA. I read on another thread a quote "Thailand doesn't need a Tsunami to create a disaster, they are perfectly capable of doing that themselves."

very difficult to quantify the costs, safe to say the loss is very heavy

AOT assumes the cost to be (for the airport only) in the height of THb 50 Million per day; interesting the latest statement of the PAD -- denouncing all responsibility this way -- that they did not force the airport closed, they only occupy it... it was the AOT that closed the airport down. Also PAD leaders openly denounced that number as too high, showing how little concept of the damage they create they really have.

I am not normally leaning towards the side of violence, but with (so stupid) terrorists occupying major infrastructure, there sure must come a time when they need to be cleaned out with any means necessary. I guess the timeline would be before Dec 5, I cannot imagine that this has not been ended before that date (we all know why this day is rather significant).

i heard 1 billion baht a day for cargo thrown around

Interesting, any dollar estimates?

Will the airlines be able to sue? If so, who will they sue? Pad????

lol good luck with that!

THe GM of the Suvarnabhumi report on a interview yesterday that Suvarnabhumi alone LOST about 50 million baht. every cycle days base on the incoming flight .

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but that is solo income form tourist coming in . and out going .

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but the personal lose of each person who get pull in by this Game .

Pricessless

Interesting, any dollar estimates?

Will the airlines be able to sue? If so, who will they sue? Pad????

Even though the Phuket airport closure was estimated at THb 150 Million loss, I have heard nothing about somebody locally trying to collect from PAD; again the same game denying responsibility, it were "non-PAD yellow shirt wearers who were really behind the airport blockade" -- this laughable sound bit from the main PAD leader in Phuket.

The damages to the parliamentary building: THb 100 Million. Have not seen anybody charged for that.

PAD leaders were arrested but set out on bail; nobody collected then.

So my guess is, airlines will not be able to sue anybody. This is what you get trusting you business on the children's mentality of the Thai people. My respect for all and any of them is lost, as the quiet majority of them supports their livelihood being destroyed by not doing anything about it.

Where are the posters on businesses denouncing terrorist tactics. Where are the people voicing their concerns over loosing their job (900,000 because of the economic crisis alone -- how many will be added to that now!)?

The Thais -- all of them -- are currently proving to the world that they want to be nothing more than poor rice farmers or jobless migrants, so let them have it...

But think of all the poor sobs who cant get out and have overstayed their visas as a result. Plenty of 500 baht per day overstay fines when the airports eventually open. Can't see them being waved either, that would be too much like common sense.

"The airport closure will cost the country around $4bn (£2.6bn) in lost business and cause serious damage to its reputation as a tourist destination, something from which it will take the country years to recover, say analysts."

$4bn!

From here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7756050.stm