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[QUOTE=MrEnternational;2451339]BREAKING: The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand has just extended the ban on international passenger planes landing in Thailand to June 30. This now means that the earliest foreigners can come to Thailand is in July.[/QUOTE]Maybe that's good news for those of us who want to be left alone in Thailand. Flights are still operated FROM Thailand though. Do they fly in empty?
[QUOTE=XXL;2451371]Maybe that's good news for those of us who want to be left alone in Thailand. Flights are still operated FROM Thailand though. Do they fly in empty?[/QUOTE]Mostly, the few people allowed into Thailand are Thai's returning home, diplomats and a few others.
[QUOTE=Downandup;2451376]Mostly, the few people allowed into Thailand are Thai's returning home, diplomats and a few others.[/QUOTE]Does anyone here have a Thailand Elite visa which costs 500,000 to 2 million baht? Anyone know if people with Elite visas are getting in to Thailand or if they're at least extending the 5 year period for the cheap Elite visa? I came very close to getting one last year because I can't apply for a Retirement Visa as I'm under 50. I'd be p1ssed if I got one and my time was ticking while being denied entry.
Would anyone pay 500k if it allowed you in to Thailand while the borders were still closed? I could visit all my gogo girls and their families in Rayong!
[QUOTE=BananaBoi;2451388]Does anyone here have a Thailand Elite visa which costs 500,000 to 2 million baht? Anyone know if people with Elite visas are getting in to Thailand or if they're at least extending the 5 year period for the cheap Elite visa? [/QUOTE]The Thai Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand, or CAAT announced this evening that they have extended a ban on international inbound travel to Thailand until at least the end of June.
This has very limited exceptions, such as repatriation of Thai nationals or supply and cargo. Foreigners, even those with work permits, family or elite visas, even willing to do state quarantines, will remain banned from entry.
[URL]https://thepattayanews.com/2020/05/16/thai-civil-aviation-authority-of-thailand-extends-ban-on-international-inbound-travel-to-thailand-to-end-of-june/[/URL]
I'm just disheartened to wait for a hypothetical opening of the borders.
I will stop postponing my flights and request a final refund. And take care of other business.
This story is starting to take my head. Enough is enough. I am wasting my time.
[URL]https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/ban-on-international-travel-into-thailand-extended-until-june-30[/URL]
[QUOTE=XXL;2451371]Maybe that's good news for those of us who want to be left alone in Thailand. Flights are still operated FROM Thailand though. Do they fly in empty?[/QUOTE]Empty of passengers but carry cargo instead.
Interesting fact. The billionaire owner of the NBA team Indiana Pacers, Herb Simon is married to an LBFM from LOS. I wonder if the field LBFMs from Isaan look up to her as their role model?
[QUOTE=Pimpampoumpipo;2451444]I'm just disheartened to wait for a hypothetical opening of the borders. I will stop postponing my flights and request a final refund. And take care of other business.[/QUOTE]Last March 2020, I postponed my 2.5 month Thai / Indonesia trip scheduled for April-June to August-November, but as the weeks / months have gone by the prospects for mid August entry into LOS are not looking good. I am not going to do anything about rescheduling my trip a 2nd time, however, until or unless the Thai Government announces no foreign entry thru the entire month of August. If or when they make that announcement I will most likely cancel my trip rather than arrange a 2nd postponement because by that time of the year my theoretical itinerary would be bumping up into high season (December / January) and I don't like travelling to SE Asia at that time of the year. So, if the Thai Government (and Indonesian Government) don't open up their borders to international travelers by the end of July that will effectively end my 2020 travel plans and I will have no choice but to start to think about April 2021 travel. That translates into an entire wasted year of no Asian girls thanks to the Wuhan Virus and the reactions to it by various governments around the world. Obviously I am not happy about this possibility, but I am becoming more and more resigned to it.
What a cluster fuck!
[QUOTE=*****man;2451518]Empty of passengers but carry cargo instead.[/QUOTE]Correct airlines revenues don't just come from passenger check-in wouldn't even account for half the load, you got cargo even cargo from UPS, FedEx, DHL, and even USA Mail as I indicated in one report I use to go standby on one of Eva flights during the summer they usually have two after midnight the 3rd was during the afternoon this was used for all the overflow of cargo and mail they couldn't take on the other two flights which operates mainly for the passenger so I thought I would always have a good chance of getting on standby twice the cargo load was so heavy I got bumped.
I have one more thought about this pandemic: I am really pissed off at the Chinese Communist government. They knew about the virus and hid the facts about it's degree of contagion to the entire world. They even allowed their citizens to travel and spread the disease. I have always been a free marklet comparative advantage guy willing to buy products from any country that could deliver best on a quality and price. No longer! I have made a conscious decision not to buy Chinese made goods anymore. Opening up our markets to the Chinese Communists has been the biggest mistake of the last quarter century.
Now I hear rumours. They are only rumors. That the Thai Government may be ready to permit Chinese Nationals back into Thailand before allowing Americans, Europeans, and Australians back in. If this rumor turns out to be true I will take this as a personal insult from the Thai Government and I will probably boycott Thailand for a long long time perhaps forever.
Interestingly, for the last 15 years or so I have preferred LOS over Brazil and Colombia not because Thai girls are prettier or better in bed, they are not, but because I preferred the relatively peaceful ambiance of Thailand and Thai Culture over their Latin American counterparts. But I will reconsider this opinion if the Thai Government shows a preference for Chinese Nationals in light of the Corona Virus.
Rant Over. Still holding out some hope that I make it to Thailand this August.
[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;2451605]Now I hear rumours. They are only rumors. That the Thai Government may be ready to permit Chinese Nationals back into Thailand before allowing Americans, Europeans, and Australians back in. If this rumor turns out to be true I will take this as a personal insult from the Thai Government and I will probably boycott Thailand for a long long time perhaps forever. [/QUOTE]Maybe this is the cause of the rumor:
[I]"The Public Health Ministry on Friday (May 15) announced that it has removed China, South Korea as well as Hong Kong and Macau from its list of 13 countries with high risk of Covid-19 infection."[/I]
They will want the Chinese to return, almost 11 million of 39 million tourists were from China.
[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;2451605]I have one more thought about this pandemic: I am really pissed off at the Chinese Communist government. They knew about the virus and hid the facts about it's degree of contagion to the entire world. They even allowed their citizens to travel and spread the disease. I have always been a free marklet comparative advantage guy willing to buy products from any country that could deliver best on a quality and price. No longer! I have made a conscious decision not to buy Chinese made goods anymore. Opening up our markets to the Chinese Communists has been the biggest mistake of the last quarter century.
Now I hear rumours. They are only rumors. That the Thai Government may be ready to permit Chinese Nationals back into Thailand before allowing Americans, Europeans, and Australians back in. If this rumor turns out to be true I will take this as a personal insult from the Thai Government and I will probably boycott Thailand for a long long time perhaps forever.
Interestingly, for the last 15 years or so I have preferred LOS over Brazil and Colombia not because Thai girls are prettier or better in bed, they are not, but because I preferred the relatively peaceful ambiance of Thailand and Thai Culture over their Latin American counterparts. But I will reconsider this opinion if the Thai Government shows a preference for Chinese Nationals in light of the Corona Virus.
Rant Over. Still holding out some hope that I make it to Thailand this August.[/QUOTE]One odd thing I noticed when talking to local Thais, they don't like the PRC tourists and see PRC investors driving up the cost of housing / living in Thailand. Small business people and the staff at various hotels and restaurants ask where I am from since I am often mistaken as Chinese. When I tell them I am a US citizen, they smile and explain that the PRC folks are know to be rude and hard to deal with. Sales clerks in high end shopping malls are taken aback when the PRC folks seem to think they can barter the price down on luxury goods.
So even if the Thai government may want the PRC folks back, their citizens do not!
[QUOTE=Rodwint2;2451612]One odd thing I noticed when talking to local Thais, they don't like the PRC tourists and see PRC investors driving up the cost of housing / living in Thailand. Small business people and the staff at various hotels and restaurants ask where I am from since I am often mistaken as Chinese. When I tell them I am a US citizen, they smile and explain that the PRC folks are know to be rude and hard to deal with. Sales clerks in high end shopping malls are taken aback when the PRC folks seem to think they can barter the price down on luxury goods. So even if the Thai government may want the PRC folks back, their citizens do not![/QUOTE]I don't know that it's "odd". It just is. I hired a tour guide to show me around a few places when I was in Thailand, and I was a bit taken aback when she expressed open contempt for Chinese tourists, calling them rude and disrespectful, and saying that she was sick and tired of them. Although, we can surely add that plenty of Thais are sick of "falangs" too.
[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;2451605]I have one more thought about this pandemic: I am really pissed off at the Chinese Communist government. They knew about the virus and hid the facts about it's degree of contagion to the entire world. They even allowed their citizens to travel and spread the disease. I have always been a free marklet comparative advantage guy willing to buy products from any country that could deliver best on a quality and price. No longer! I have made a conscious decision not to buy Chinese made goods anymore. Opening up our markets to the Chinese Communists has been the biggest mistake of the last quarter century.
Now I hear rumours. They are only rumors. That the Thai Government may be ready to permit Chinese Nationals back into Thailand before allowing Americans, Europeans, and Australians back in. If this rumor turns out to be true I will take this as a personal insult from the Thai Government and I will probably boycott Thailand for a long long time perhaps forever.
Interestingly, for the last 15 years or so I have preferred LOS over Brazil and Colombia not because Thai girls are prettier or better in bed, they are not, but because I preferred the relatively peaceful ambiance of Thailand and Thai Culture over their Latin American counterparts. But I will reconsider this opinion if the Thai Government shows a preference for Chinese Nationals in light of the Corona Virus.
Rant Over. Still holding out some hope that I make it to Thailand this August.[/QUOTE]The Chinese were also out nimbly buying up personal protective equipment while the rest of the world was caught flat-footed. If you aren't going to buy Chinese, then at least for now (and for a long time to come) there are a lot of things you won't be buying then. Seems like virtually everything I look at has "made in China" on it.
[QUOTE=Rodwint2;2451612]One odd thing I noticed when talking to local Thais, they don't like the PRC tourists and see PRC investors driving up the cost of housing / living in Thailand. Small business people and the staff at various hotels and restaurants ask where I am from since I am often mistaken as Chinese. When I tell them I am a US citizen, they smile and explain that the PRC folks are know to be rude and hard to deal with. Sales clerks in high end shopping malls are taken aback when the PRC folks seem to think they can barter the price down on luxury goods.
So even if the Thai government may want the PRC folks back, their citizens do not![/QUOTE]Good point. My Mini is not fond of PRC workers either. She has a studio apartment behind the Cultural Center and there are a lot of low level PRC office workers housed in her neighborhood. She is in daily close contact with many of them at the mall, the outdoor night market, and the MRT.