Thailand closes borders to foreigners

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I've heard poipet will reopen to people on 5th or 22nd of April.

AirAsia is starting flights again from 24th April.
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SiemReapRoddy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:45 pm I've heard poipet will reopen to people on 5th or 22nd of April.

AirAsia is starting flights again from 24th April.
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LOL: you think that people in Thailand will head to Cambodia knowing they cant return to thailand until at the least april 30th?

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The one on the 5th was from the biggest Casino there, so I don't know whether or not Thai people will need to officially exit/enter.
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SiemReapRoddy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:45 pm I've heard poipet will reopen to people on 5th or 22nd of April.

AirAsia is starting flights again from 24th April.
I'd take these announcements with a grain of salt. It's not unlikely that the dates will get pushed back, depending on developments on both sides of the border.
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I'm definitely taking them with a grain of salt, apart from Air Asia which should probably start flying again if they're filling up all their seats.

As far as I know foreigners aren't actually banned from Cambodia and it's just hard to get their by air right now.
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I was just randomly looking at flightradar24 just now. There seems to be an extraordinary large number of aircraft heading for Thailand. In particular there are a number of large passenger aircraft heading for Phuket right now from places like Russia, Switzerland, Finland. It makes me wonder who is on these aircraft that they are able to fly to Phuket now. I suppose they could be empty heading to evacuate their citizens.
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samrong01 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:08 am I was just randomly looking at flightradar24 just now. There seems to be an extraordinary large number of aircraft heading for Thailand. In particular there are a number of large passenger aircraft heading for Phuket right now from places like Russia, Switzerland, Finland. It makes me wonder who is on these aircraft that they are able to fly to Phuket now. I suppose they could be empty heading to evacuate their citizens.
I'd like to think the Russian planes are charters flying empty to pick their last remaining tourists here.
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SiemReapRoddy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:45 pm I've heard poipet will reopen to people on 5th or 22nd of April.

AirAsia is starting flights again from 24th April.
Once the countries start to realize what the effects of the lock-down are on other aspects of society than healthcare they will change their directions.
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Kammekor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:41 am
SiemReapRoddy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:45 pm I've heard poipet will reopen to people on 5th or 22nd of April.

AirAsia is starting flights again from 24th April.
Once the countries start to realize what the effects of the lock-down are on other aspects of society than healthcare they will change their directions.
That is what I think will happen, especially in South East Asia.

If they don't let tourists in soon it's going to have a huge impact on the ecomony, which could lead to riots and high crimes.

Even in the UK where they have billions to help out citizens it's going to be a complete cluster fuck.
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