Originally Posted by
Chapel Hill Guy
+1
It's real easy to be flippant about these events if you have the time and money to deal with the inconvenience.
I don't. My time off is scarce and I'm not wealthy, so dealing with the airport shutdown would have been a major hassle. We were, luckily, there in early November so we missed the chaos.
Given that I only get so many days off per year, the possibility of continued instability makes me consider not traveling to Thailand. Why chance it when there are plenty of other destinations, in Asia and elsewhere, that don't carry the same hassle factor?
Inconvenience doesn't equal danger, but it's still a very real factor.
I have been inconvenienced by plane crashes closing runways and my plane diverted to another airport far away. I have had breakdowns and other problems with aircraft that screwed up my connections all down the line. Not to mention snowstorms, hurricanes, typhoons and heavy wind messing up schedules. Even NineEleven sidetracked me overseas for a while.
So crap can happen anywhere and at anytime that we have to adjust to. I am not changing any future travel plans because some protests might happen. If something comes up I and probably a few more like me will just have to deal with it. There is always a possibility that something will happen somewhere at some time anywhere we fly. Crap just happens sometimes!