Bangkok Airways revises Koh Samui flights ahead of reopening

[Thaiger]

To prepare for the Samui+ reopening programme, Bangkok Airways is revising its schedule to operate 3 inbound flights and 3 outbound flights daily between Koh Samui and Bangkok. The new schedule, released today and promoted by the Tourism Authority of Thailand in a press release this afternoon, will feature a morning, afternoon, and evening flight option. Flights will leave from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport at 10:05 am, arriving in Koh Samui at 11:35 am, and again at 2:35 pm to land in Samui at 4:05 pm, and finally, a 5:10 pm flight that will arrive at the island at 6:40 pm. […]

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[JamesE]

So, will these be dedicated Samui Plus flights or a mix of international and domestic travelers? Given what happened at Phuket with the forced quarantine of the entire group associated with one infected traveler, packing a group of new arrivals in with a group of unvaccinated domestic travelers is likely to end up with everybody in quarantine.

[AlexPTY]

7 hours ago, JamesE said:

So, will these be dedicated Samui Plus flights or a mix of international and domestic travelers? Given what happened at Phuket with the forced quarantine of the entire group associated with one infected traveler, packing a group of new arrivals in with a group of unvaccinated domestic travelers is likely to end up with everybody in quarantine.

i am surprised they didn't quarantine the entire flights, unless it WAS an entire flight

[Oggie]

Judging by the flight times these flights will use the smaller ATR72 aircraft, not the Airbus they've recently been using on this route. So if the reopening is successful, more people will be packed closer together for a longer time. Does this make sense?

[uanmak]

14 minutes ago, Oggie said:

Judging by the flight times these flights will use the smaller ATR72 aircraft, not the Airbus they've recently been using on this route. So if the reopening is successful, more people will be packed closer together for a longer time. Does this make sense?

According to flightradar, they are all with A319.

[HolyCowCm]

Yeah, time to revise it to zero. 

[KaptainRob]

5 minutes ago, uanmak said:

According to flightradar, they are all with A319.

Recent PG (Bangkok Airways) flights between BKK and CNX  are scheduled as A319 with the majority changing to ATR42 if pax numbers are very low.

Check FlightAware history for details.  It's a very fluid situation and equipment changes or cancellations are common.

[uanmak]

4 minutes ago, KaptainRob said:

Recent PG (Bangkok Airways) flights between BKK and CNX  are scheduled as A319 with the majority changing to ATR42 if pax numbers are very low.

Check FlightAware history for details.  It's a very fluid situation and equipment changes or cancellations are common.

Sure, I can't forecast, I just reported what's currently scheduled.