Thailand flight waivers?
Mar 5, 2020, 3:48 am
#17
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If rescheduling a flight due to coronavirus does anyone know if the new flights need to have availability in the same (or certain) fare buckets or if it's ok to reschedule as long as there's any availability in the relevant compartment?
Feels bad having to potentially postpone my BKK flight as it was purchased from the double points campaign last autumn, which requires flying prior to end of March 2020. Looks like corona will cost me 30k points...
Feels bad having to potentially postpone my BKK flight as it was purchased from the double points campaign last autumn, which requires flying prior to end of March 2020. Looks like corona will cost me 30k points...
Mar 5, 2020, 6:13 am
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If rescheduling a flight due to coronavirus does anyone know if the new flights need to have availability in the same (or certain) fare buckets or if it's ok to reschedule as long as there's any availability in the relevant compartment?
Feels bad having to potentially postpone my BKK flight as it was purchased from the double points campaign last autumn, which requires flying prior to end of March 2020. Looks like corona will cost me 30k points...
Feels bad having to potentially postpone my BKK flight as it was purchased from the double points campaign last autumn, which requires flying prior to end of March 2020. Looks like corona will cost me 30k points...
Mar 5, 2020, 6:16 am
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It was also confirmed that healthy people returning from Covid-19 risk countries will be quarantined at specific and guarded facilities - the countries and facilities still to be announced.
TAT on the other also released a statement today - not talking about quarantine regulations
https://www.tatnews.org/2020/03/tats...ffected-areas/
I love Thailand - I really do.
Last edited by Ed Size; Mar 5, 2020 at 6:43 am
Mar 5, 2020, 6:22 am
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It´s all a little unclear - this is Bangkok Post from today 3/5/2020
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...covid-19-cases
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...covid-19-cases
not a good sign for people arriving here
Mar 5, 2020, 8:12 am
#22
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Seems like a 14-day self-quarantine for travellers arriving from Hong Kong, Macau, China, South Korea, Italy and Iran has now been made official: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN20S1SV
I would imagine that this will affect any passengers connecting from Italy - I wonder if Finnair will only let them change the dates of travel?
Hopefully the coronavirus situation will take a turn for the better instead of getting worse, and that Thailand won't add more countries to the list.
I would imagine that this will affect any passengers connecting from Italy - I wonder if Finnair will only let them change the dates of travel?
Hopefully the coronavirus situation will take a turn for the better instead of getting worse, and that Thailand won't add more countries to the list.
Mar 6, 2020, 7:25 am
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would you go from SIN to BKK for a meeting, having read these two pieces?
”The nine countries are Japan, Germany, South Korea, China, Taiwan, France, Singapore, Italy and Iran. The two territories are Hong Kong and Macau, according to the announcement, coming in effect when it is published in the Royal Gazette. ”
and
“Dr Suwannachai said that healthy people returning from Covid-19 risk countries would be quarantined at specific and guarded facilities. Previous returnees were being monitored.”
I chickened out - rather two extra days in SIN than 2 weeks in a guarded facility in Thailand.
Mar 6, 2020, 9:46 am
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The issue is not Thailand per se, but the Thai handling of inbound pax - in this case from SIN, that was and is ambiguous. A local friend opined that the junta tries to boost hotel occupancy this way (quarantine) though it doesn’t make any sense. His answer - that’s the Thai junta for you.
would you go from SIN to BKK for a meeting, having read these two pieces?
”The nine countries are Japan, Germany, South Korea, China, Taiwan, France, Singapore, Italy and Iran. The two territories are Hong Kong and Macau, according to the announcement, coming in effect when it is published in the Royal Gazette. ”
and
“Dr Suwannachai said that healthy people returning from Covid-19 risk countries would be quarantined at specific and guarded facilities. Previous returnees were being monitored.”
I chickened out - rather two extra days in SIN than 2 weeks in a guarded facility in Thailand.
would you go from SIN to BKK for a meeting, having read these two pieces?
”The nine countries are Japan, Germany, South Korea, China, Taiwan, France, Singapore, Italy and Iran. The two territories are Hong Kong and Macau, according to the announcement, coming in effect when it is published in the Royal Gazette. ”
and
“Dr Suwannachai said that healthy people returning from Covid-19 risk countries would be quarantined at specific and guarded facilities. Previous returnees were being monitored.”
I chickened out - rather two extra days in SIN than 2 weeks in a guarded facility in Thailand.
Mar 6, 2020, 9:57 am
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This is wishful thinking. The situation is worsening and will continue to worsen in Europe (and North America). France, Germany, and I guess soon Spain, are going fully epidemic. I'd be surprised if communal transmission did not spread to Northern Europe by the end of the month.
Mar 6, 2020, 10:21 am
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It's kinda moot at this point, as all Finnair flights in March can be postponed for free. (And I just got a mail from KLM doing the same for March and April, even though I don't have an outstanding booking with them.) This is wishful thinking. The situation is worsening and will continue to worsen in Europe (and North America). France, Germany, and I guess soon Spain, are going fully epidemic. I'd be surprised if communal transmission did not spread to Northern Europe by the end of the month.
Last edited by Ed Size; Mar 6, 2020 at 1:50 pm
Mar 6, 2020, 10:51 am
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And I'd suppose that the reason why the waivers don't work for codeshares is a lack of such option from the operating carrier toward Finnair.
Mar 6, 2020, 11:38 am
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You self-centric much? Just because it does not help you does not mean it does not help anyone. I bet the majority of Finnair tickets to/from Thailand don't involve the domestic PG code-shares, or any code-share for that matter.
And I'd suppose that the reason why the waivers don't work for codeshares is a lack of such option from the operating carrier toward Finnair.
And I'd suppose that the reason why the waivers don't work for codeshares is a lack of such option from the operating carrier toward Finnair.
Mar 6, 2020, 12:47 pm
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Mar 6, 2020, 1:48 pm
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