News Forum - Phuket International Airport predicts 30,000 passengers daily

[Thaiger]

High season is starting this month in Phuket, and the airport is predicting up to 30,000 travellers per day. The increase in air traffic to the popular tourist destination coincides with the airport’s 34th anniversary. And to celebrate, passengers and flights – both domestic and international – are ramping up. International carriers such as Aeroflot from Russia, Pegasus Airlines from Turkey, and Myanmar Airlines are planning to schedule more international flights, resuming pre-Covid routes. From October 30, Aeroflot will run two daily flights and Pegasus will operate three days a week with charter flights. Bangkok Post reports that Phuket Airport’s […]

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[Vigo]

Way to go Thailand. You celebrate  your business transactions with two pariah states, Russia and Myanmar. Go make your profits like you did during the worst of the Pol Pot era. TAT claims it is trying to go upscale, but does the exact opposite when it transacts with junket package operators like Pegasus. 

What's the marketing to promote flights to Russia? Come relax after pulling gold crowns from captives? Drop your love bombs on our towns?  No need for the aggravation of raping women, when we put them on sale for you?  What's the slogan for Myanmar? Come spend your stolen wealth and proceeds of drug trafficking, we promise you protection and  a way to launder the funds? Thailand 's refusal to effect even the mildest of  sanctions on these two countries is a tacit  support and is wrong.

[Ramanathan.P]

Whatever the numbers be....just get rid of all those thugs who are managing the taxis and follow meter. Or open it to customer's choice of selection. 

[Marc26]

48 minutes ago, Ramanathan.P said:

Whatever the numbers be....just get rid of all those thugs who are managing the taxis and follow meter. Or open it to customer's choice of selection. 

It really is

 

You can choose from the limo desk, or metered taxi when you walk out or even the bus 

 

The thugs apparently interfere when you book your own private pick-up

 

Although I booked a private van pick up for my wife and family in May with no issues