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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    So is that Thai Air Asia? Strange that they are defying the parent company who are mandating vaccinations for all flights.

    Travel Advisory: AirAsia will only accept fully-vaccinated guests on its flights — airasia newsroom
    Yes it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has reiterated that airlines will only take passengers who are either fully vaccinated
    Except when flying from Roi Et to Bangkok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Except when flying from Roi Et to Bangkok.
    Best check again, it might not have filtered down to them yet.

    The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration's (CCSA) operation centre has agreed to lift capacity limits on domestic flights, allowing airlines to take full flight bookings, according to the Public Health Ministry.
    The number of passengers was previously limited to 75% of the full capacity.
    Dr Chawetsan Namwat, director for emergency health hazards and diseases, said that while airlines are allowed to book to full capacity he stressed other Covid-19 prevention measures remain intact.
    These measures include a ban on in-flight drinking and eating, the need for a good ventilation system and proper social distancing on boarding and leaving aircraft, he said.
    Dr Chawetsan said that passengers are required to be fully vaccinated or have negative Covid-19 test results 72 hours before boarding while urging those who are ill to avoid travelling.
    He said passengers will be required to undergo Covid-19 screening.
    Domestic airlines allowed full flights

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    According to Barrow an ATK test is acceptable too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Best check again, it might not have filtered down to them yet.
    Bit like immigration I suppose. Not planning the trip until first week of December so certainly as they seem daily to do, will change.

    All these proclamations, plans and the like we see on internet are frankly mostly speculation and hopeful thinking. I will go with what I personally find the case. 2 days ago the gal at AirAsia in Roi Et was ready to put me on next flight to DM with no vaccine cert or test. I was just passing on this fact for what it is worth.
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Bit like immigration I suppose. Not planning the trip until first week of December so certainly as they seem daily to do, will change.

    All these proclamations, plans and the like we see on internet are frankly mostly speculation and hopeful thinking. I will go with what I personally find the case. 2 days ago the gal at AirAsia in Roi Et was ready to put me on next flight to DM with no vaccine cert or test. I was just passing on this fact for what it is worth.
    Yes, but this has come directly from the CCSA. It sounds fairly unambiguous.

    It would not be atypical for some bint to tell you one thing and then for you to turn up at check in and find you can't get on the plane.

    And think what a fucking pain that would be. So I'm just suggesting that you check before you fly.

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    Harry, carry on pasting internet stuff coming from the top. I will continue going with the local entity requirements. I have done so for the last 38 years doing business and dealing with various private and government organizations.

    In this case I posted what the "bint" was ready to do on the spot for a flight leaving in an hour. If this thread is only for from the top rather than actually what TD members experience then this is my last post here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Harry, carry on pasting internet stuff coming from the top. I will continue going with the local entity requirements. I have done so for the last 38 years doing business and dealing with various private and government organizations.

    In this case I posted what the "bint" was ready to do on the spot for a flight leaving in an hour. If this thread is only for from the top rather than actually what TD members experience then this is my last post here.

    What is "internet" stuff?

    It's a direct quote from a government official in a Thai newspaper.

    Anyway, you just do whatever you like, I'm sure your 38 years of experience of pandemics will be of great help.


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    What is "internet" stuff?

    It's a direct quote from a government official in a Thai newspaper.

    Anyway, you just do whatever you like, I'm sure your 38 years of experience of pandemics will be of great help.
    Harry there are two types of posters on here. Those who live here and those who dont. I know Norton lives here and has for even longer than I. I know you dont, but are hoping to move here. Norton and I read news off the net as well as you. But often there is more to the story than printed. I hope you realize this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Harry there are two types of posters on here. Those who live here and those who dont. I know Norton lives here and has for even longer than I. I know you dont, but are hoping to move here. Norton and I read news off the net as well as you. But often there is more to the story than printed. I hope you realize this.
    Why the fuck should I care, if he gets turned back he'd never admit it anyway.


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    Wifey flew to Surat today and needed a covid test within 24hours from a doc. An atk wasnt enough.

    Not sure if she flew from DM or swampy.

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    The PM will be making an announcement at 20:30 local time.

    According to twatter....


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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Harry there are two types of posters on here. Those who live here and those who dont. I know Norton lives here and has for even longer than I. I know you dont, but are hoping to move here. Norton and I read news off the net as well as you. But often there is more to the story than printed. I hope you realize this.
    Yeah, I can see your point ao.

    But some posters can draw a line about those who understand and those who don't rather arbitrarily at times.

    harriet has next to no clue - agreed.

    Despite his evidently 'Alan Whicker' style interviews on his last visit.

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    This is what you really wanted....

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    The official line was "consider the alcohol rule on the 1st" but I'll take that

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Yeah, I can see your point ao.

    But some posters can draw a line about those who understand and those who don't rather arbitrarily at times.

    harriet has next to no clue - agreed.

    Despite his evidently 'Alan Whicker' style interviews on his last visit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    The official line was "consider the alcohol rule on the 1st" but I'll take that
    It's also the "operation of entertainment venues", but hey, it's a start.

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    Here's the transcript of whatever whoever wrote for his nibs.

    National Address of the Prime Minister of Thailand
    “THAILAND WILL WELCOME QUARANTINE-FREE VISITORS”
    Monday 11 October, 2021

    HIGHLIGHTS

    “During the last weeks some of Thailand’s most important tourist source countries have begun to ease their travel restrictions on their citizens… With these developments, we must act quickly but still cautiously, and not miss the opportunity to entice some of the year-end and new year holiday season travelers during the next few months to support the many millions of people who earn a living from our tourism, travel and entertainment sectors as well as the many other related sectors.”

    “I have instructed the CCSA and the Ministry of Public Health to urgently consider within this week to allow, as of 1st November, international visitors to enter Thailand without any requirement for quarantine if they are fully vaccinated and arrive by air from low-risk countries. Visitors will need to show that they are COVID-free at their time of travel with an RT-PCR test undertaken before they leave their home country, and do a test in Thailand. Initially, we will begin with at least 10 countries on our low-risk, no-quarantine list, including the United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, China, and the United States of America, and enlarge that list by 1st December, and, by 1st of January, move to a very extensive list.”

    “By 1st December, we will also consider allowing the consumption of alcoholic beverages in restaurants as well as the operation of entertainment venues.”

    “I would like to recognise the extraordinary achievements of our public health workers, other officials and all citizens for their response to my appeal in June to ready the country for quarantine-free arrivals within 120 days.

    “After we adopted the 120-day goal, extraordinary efforts were made to increase our supply of vaccines, and deliveries jumped threefold, from around 4 million doses in May to almost 12 million arriving in July, then almost 14 million arriving in August, and now running at over 20 million a month until the end of the year, totaling over 170 million doses, far ahead of the goals I had set.

    “Similarly, our public health staff worked tirelessly to accelerate vaccinations to support our 120-day goal, and the public gave great cooperation to register for vaccinations. As a result, our daily vaccinations shot up threefold in July, from around 80,000 doses a day in May, and kept increasing until Thailand rose to be among the fastest ten countries in the world for administering shots. We currently frequently administer more than 700,000 shots a day, and sometimes even exceeding one million shots a day.”

    “…Our country was one of the first in the world to move quickly and decisively to confront the pandemic. With the collaboration of all sectors of society, and with everyone joining hands to face this crisis together, we have been among the most successful countries in the world in saving lives.”

    My fellow citizens, brothers and sisters:

    In the last one-and-half years, we have lived with some of the greatest peacetime challenges our country has ever faced in its history, brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and one that has left nobody untouched and no country in the world undamaged.

    It has been one of the most painful experiences in my life, too: to make decisions that balance the saving of lives with the saving of livelihoods – a choice that is not always clearly separate, and where we may save lives, but commit those lives to the unbearable pain of trying to survive with little or no income; or where we may save livelihoods but commit one’s family, friends and neighbours to loss of life and the loss of their breadwinner.

    In facing this terrible choice, it was my decision that we could not allow a slow, wait-and-see approach to confronting the pandemic and let it claim the lives of so many of our countrymen and women, as we, ultimately, saw happen in so many other countries.

    As a result, I acted decisively on the advice of many of our outstanding public health experts to make our country one of the first in the world to move quickly with lockdowns and tight regulations.

    With the collaboration of all sectors of society, and with everyone joining hands to face this crisis together, we have been among the most successful countries in the world in saving lives.

    But it has come at very great sacrifices of lost livelihoods, lost savings, and destroyed businesses – what we have all given up so that our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, friends and neighbours may live for today.

    The threat of a large scale, lethal spread of the virus in Thailand is now diminishing, even though the risk of resurgence is always there, and even though there are still serious constraints on our hospital and medical staff capacities.

    The time has come for us to ready ourselves to face the coronavirus and live with it as with other endemic infections and diseases, much as we have learnt to live with other diseases with treatments and vaccinations.

    Today, I would like to announce the first small but important step in decisively beginning the process of trying to restore our livelihoods.

    During the last weeks some of Thailand’s most important tourist source countries have begun to ease their travel restrictions on their citizens – countries like the UK, that now allow convenient travel to our country, as well as countries like Singapore and Australia that have started to ease travel restrictions on their citizens visiting other countries.

    With these developments, we must act quickly but still cautiously, and not miss the opportunity to entice some of the year-end and new year holiday season travelers during the next few months to support the many millions of people who earn a living from our tourism, travel and entertainment sectors as well as the many other related sectors.

    I have, therefore, instructed the CCSA and the Ministry of Public Health to urgently consider within this week to allow, as of 1st November, international visitors to enter Thailand without any requirement for quarantine if they are fully vaccinated and arrive by air from low-risk countries.

    All that visitors will need do is to show that they are COVID-free at their time of travel with an RT-PCR test undertaken before they leave their home country, and do a test in Thailand, after which they will be free to move around Thailand in the same way that any Thai citizen can do.

    Initially, we will begin with at least 10 countries on our low-risk, no-quarantine list, including the United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, China, and the United States of America, and enlarge that list by 1st December, and, by 1st of January move to a very extensive list.

    Visitors from countries not on the list, will, of course, still be much welcomed, but with quarantine and other requirements.

    By 1st December, we will also consider allowing the consumption of alcoholic beverages in restaurants as well as the operation of entertainment venues under appropriate health precautions to support the revitalization of the tourism and leisure sectors, especially as we approach the new year period.

    I know this decision comes with some risk. It is almost certain that we will see a temporary rise in serious cases as we relax these restrictions. We will have to track the situation very carefully, and see how to contain and live with that situation because I do not think that the many millions who depend on the income generated by the travel, leisure and entertainment sector can possibly afford the devastating blow of a second lost new year holiday period.

    But if, in the months ahead, we see an unexpected emergence of a highly dangerous new variant of the virus, then, of course, we must also act accordingly and proportionately when we see the threat. We know that this virus has surprised the world several times, and we must be ready for it to do so again.

    In mid-June of this year, I had set a 120-day goal for quarantine-free entry into Thailand and to accelerate our vaccinations.

    I would like to take this opportunity to recognise the extraordinary achievements of our public health workers, other officials and all citizens for their response to my appeal in June.

    After we adopted the 120-day goal, extraordinary efforts were made to increase our supply of vaccines and compete with many other countries to get deliveries. And they were very successful. Our vaccine deliveries jumped threefold, from around 4 million doses in May to almost 12 million in July… then to almost 14 million in August, and will now run at over 20 million a month until the end of the year, totaling over 170 million doses, far ahead of the goals I had set.

    Similarly, our public health staff worked tirelessly to accelerate vaccinations to support our 120-day goal, and the public gave great cooperation to register for vaccinations despite the inconveniences that may have been caused in schedulings. As a result, our daily vaccinations, which were running at around 80,000 doses a day in May, shot up immediately. One month after our goal-setting, our public health team tripled the number of shots being administering a day, and they kept increasing that number until Thailand rose to be among the fastest ten countries in the world for administering shots! Currently, they have frequently been administering more than 700,000 shots a day, and sometimes even exceeding one million shots a day.

    Shortly after my address to the nation in mid-June setting our goal for quarantine-free entry into Thailand in 120 days, the world was struck by the highly infectious Delta variant. Worldwide cases spiked up and peaked in August, just as they did in Thailand, and few thought that it would be possible to achieve any quarantine-free entry into Thailand this year.

    The fact that we can begin quarantine-free entry in November, and despite many countries still trying to contain Delta variant infections with restrictions on the travel of their citizens is a great tribute to the unity of purpose and determined response to my appeal by the public health services, by many other government departments, by the private sector, and by the cooperation given by citizens in all matters.

    Our nation has performed an extraordinary feat in the last months that we can all be very proud about everyone’s enormous contributions to those achievements. These achievements, coupled with the gradual relaxation of other countries’ travel restrictions, now enables us to begin the process of quarantine-free entry into Thailand.

    Thank you.

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    I've long given up querying the numbers they pull from their arse, but...

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    Maybe they have a different counting system or something.

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    And here's the Bangkok Post version. No mention of the dreaded COE being abolished - yet.

    PM sets Nov 1 for reopening to foreign tourists from low-risk countries

    Alcohol sales, other entertainment venues to be allowed by Dec 1

    PM sets Nov 1 for reopening to foreign tourists from low-risk countries

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    The MFA have announced a new Digital Pass to replace COE from November 1st.

    Well it's more "around", "after" or "approximately" depending how long you read the press release.

    Either way it's not much different.

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    The CCSA briefing is underway so fuck knows what they're going to come out with.

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    I'm waiting till next week to book my flight, as I'm sure when TAT sees that bookings haven't increased to what they hoped for, the situation will change again.

    No need for all this shit they are still asking for.

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