Flying to/from Thailand (Covid Era)

[HHTel]

If you pay for a round trip but do not use the return, how can they sue you? You have already paid for the seat.

I spotted that and chose to ignore it. Of course, it can never happen. Suing a passenger for not taking up his already paid for seat? Nonsense!

And to Lindosfan, that was not my quote you attributed to me!

[STEVE G]

HHTel wrote

Round trips are cheaper than one way because with a round trip the airline is guaranteed to fill the seat. Airlines, like stock markets, don't like uncertainty. Of course it doesn't make sense but that's what I found when I was looking into a one way trip. If you buy a round trip and don't return, the airline sues you for the difference. Unless your dead or incapacitated.

If you pay for a round trip but do not use the return, how can they sue you? You have already paid for the seat.

Airlines have tried to sue passengers for similar kinds of things but without success:
https://www.smartertravel.com/airline-s ... ticketing/
"How would you like to get home from your trip and receive a bill for $2,300—plus interest—for an $840 plane trip that you’ve already paid for? That’s the amount Lufthansa recently sued a passenger for, after the customer skipped (“skiplagged,” in industry parlance) the last leg of his flight itinerary."

[DTHH]

I was specifically looking for repatriation of Thais back to Thailand. I know there are flights out of Thailand repatriating other foreigners back home. I wasn't aware that these flights were allowing Thais to use them on their journey into Thailand to pick up foreigners.

Google wrong???!! What is the world coming to?

Certainly, I recall an Iberian flight with Thais on board stopping off in Bangkok recently, presumably to refuel, en route to Australia to pick up and repatriate Spaniards. There have been several others too.

Hear details sometimes on the English news bulletin from Thai PRD on our local English radio station... I think around 6.00 or 7.00 P.M.

[HHTel]

Certainly, I recall an Iberian flight with Thais on board stopping off in Bangkok recently, presumably to refuel, en route to Australia to pick up and repatriate Spaniards. There have been several others too.

Not sure when that was. Maybe they've changed the rules since. Currently, you have to register with the Thai Embassy in the country you're returning from. The Embassy will inform you of the flight availability and inform the Thai authorities in advance to enable quarantine facilities to be available.
This was highlighted in the briefing from the CCSA today or yesterday.
It was only last week that my daughter was given the same information from the Thai Embassy in Washington.

[caller]

Certainly, I recall an Iberian flight with Thais on board stopping off in Bangkok recently, presumably to refuel, en route to Australia to pick up and repatriate Spaniards. There have been several others too.

Not sure when that was. Maybe they've changed the rules since. Currently, you have to register with the Thai Embassy in the country you're returning from. The Embassy will inform you of the flight availability and inform the Thai authorities in advance to enable quarantine facilities to be available.
This was highlighted in the briefing from the CCSA today or yesterday.
It was only last week that my daughter was given the same information from the Thai Embassy in Washington.

Yes, but if a Thai turns up with a valid passport and pays to get on the flight and the airline are willing to take them, the Thai authorities don't really have much of a say in it. Apart from when they turn up at immigration at Swampy.

A similar thing happened with my Brother in Law recently, when he was stuck in Morocco and repatriation flights were arranged to return Brits to the UK. He and his two friends - all Aussies - waited at the airport in the hope of getting on one as the various flights they had been booked on heading East had all been cancelled as Morocco shut down it's airspace. They were lucky that a Ryanair flight had three empty seats and they got those (had to pay obviously). When they got to Stanstead they were able to make their way on to Oz with Emirates.

[Phyton]

HHTel wrote

Round trips are cheaper than one way because with a round trip the airline is guaranteed to fill the seat. Airlines, like stock markets, don't like uncertainty. Of course it doesn't make sense but that's what I found when I was looking into a one way trip. If you buy a round trip and don't return, the airline sues you for the difference. Unless your dead or incapacitated.

If you pay for a round trip but do not use the return, how can they sue you? You have already paid for the seat.

Airlines have tried to sue passengers for similar kinds of things but without success:
https://www.smartertravel.com/airline-s ... ticketing/
"How would you like to get home from your trip and receive a bill for $2,300—plus interest—for an $840 plane trip that you’ve already paid for? That’s the amount Lufthansa recently sued a passenger for, after the customer skipped (“skiplagged,” in industry parlance) the last leg of his flight itinerary."

This had a special background with Lufthansa.

Example:
I book LH in business class FRA-BKK return, then the flight costs 2400 €

LH offers XER (Strasbourg, France) via FRA to BKK for 1400 €.
In fact, in XER you get on an LH bus that takes you to FRA. The whole thing of course also return. LH wants to reach French customers with this special offer.

It has happened that the last part of the trip, namely the bus trip FRA to XER, was not used and LH complained against this, but also lost.

I myself will take advantage of this offer in August (if the flight takes place), as my daughter lives on the German side of the Rhine, opposite Strasbourg near Kehl. In 45 minutes I will be at her place by car, can leave my car at her place, and she will drive me over the Rhine bridge to the station XER.

[migrant]

Well my June 5th flight in was cancelled and the next available is July 2.

Don't know if that is a precursor to an announcement or not.

[Nereus]

Well my June 5th flight in was cancelled and the next available is July 2.

Don't know if that is a precursor to an announcement or not.

It wasn't me that did it. Sorry!

[handdrummer]

The question is; when can we fly out of Thailand?

[migrant]

The question is; when can we fly out of Thailand?

Not for me, my home, and family, are in Thailand, I want back in.

[Dannie Boy]

The answer to both is likely to be the same (planes in, planes out), but when that date is, is anybody’s guess but 1st June at the earliest

[fft100]

The question is; when can we fly out of Thailand?

Depends where you want to go, but there are currently flights to Frankfurt (LHR 3 times a week), Heathrow (EVA 1 a week now), Amsterdam (KLM 2 a week), Seoul (Korean air 1 or 2) and Doha (Qatar 1 a day).

Probably a few others as well. The planes all seem to be leaving with between 100-200 empty seats so shouldn't be a problem getting tickets.

You can't get here, but there has never been a problem leaving.

[handdrummer]

The question is; when can we fly out of Thailand?

Depends where you want to go, but there are currently flights to Frankfurt (LHR 3 times a week), Heathrow (EVA 1 a week now), Amsterdam (KLM 2 a week), Seoul (Korean air 1 or 2) and Doha (Qatar 1 a day).

Probably a few others as well. The planes all seem to be leaving with between 100-200 empty seats so shouldn't be a problem getting tickets.

You can't get here, but there has never been a problem leaving.

Thank you.

[Big Boy]

Another thing repeated again in today's daily brief, when non-Thais are allowed in, it will still be 14 days into the Government Quarantine Facility. I can't see many tourists travelling on those terms.

[Big Boy]

I've just seen, no Inbound International Flights until at least July apart from repatriation and a couple of other types of flights.

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