repatriation

  • Thailand NewsThai Embassy in Japan advises citizens to register for repatriation flights
    Maya TaylorTuesday, April 28, 2020
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    Thai Embassy in Japan advises citizens to register for repatriation flights

    The Thai Embassy in Tokyo is advising citizens who wish to return home to register for two repatriation flights in May. Thai PBS World reports that with the ban on international flights extended until the end of May, the embassy is laying on two special flights for citizens who wish to return to Thailand. Posting on its Facebook page, the embassy…

  • Covid-19 News300 more “little ghosts” returning from South Korea
    ThaigerMonday, April 13, 2020
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    300 more “little ghosts” returning from South Korea

    Health officials announced today that 300 more Thai citizens, dubbed “phee noi” or “little ghosts” in Thai, will be repatriated from South Korea over the next two days. 135 immigration detainees, accompanied by South Korean health officials, will depart tomorrow on a Jeju Air chartered flight from South Korea at 5pm Thai time. The flight will arrive at BKK at…

  • Covid-19 News31 Thai returnees from Russia quarantined, 3 hospitalised with fever
    ThaigerSunday, April 12, 2020
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    31 Thai returnees from Russia quarantined, 3 hospitalised with fever

    34 Thai nationals who have been stranded at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport, due to travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus, have now arrived home. They arrived at at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday by Aeroflot Airlines flight SU272 as a special repatriation flight arranged by the Thai government. Authorities at the airport’s international communicable disease control checkpoint found that 3…

  • Covid-19 NewsArriving flights banned until the end of Monday – CAAT
    ThaigerSaturday, April 4, 2020
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    Arriving flights banned until the end of Monday – CAAT

    Thailand’s CAAT is stopping all passenger flights from arriving in Thailand from this morning (Saturday) until the end of Monday. The country’s Civil Aviation Authority made the order late yesterday, throwing repatriation efforts of several countries into complete confusion. Stranded visitors, hoping to get home, now find their weekend hopes of repatriation dashed. The country’s aviation regulators say the move is…

  • Tourism NewsUK travel icon Thomas Cook bankrupt, stranding tourists
    ThaigerMonday, September 23, 2019
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    UK travel icon Thomas Cook bankrupt, stranding tourists

    PHOTO: Axios.com “This marks a deeply sad day for the company which pioneered package holidays and made travel possible for millions of people around the world.” British travel giant Thomas Cook declared bankruptcy today after failing to reach a last-ditch rescue deal. The collapse triggers the UK’s biggest repatriation since World War II to bring back stranded passengers. The 178 year…

  • World NewsTravel giant Thomas Cook teetering on financial collapse
    ThaigerSunday, September 22, 2019
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    Travel giant Thomas Cook teetering on financial collapse

    Unable to adapt to the move online as smaller, nimbler travel companies thrive, Thomas Cook, the household name in international travel, is close to financial collapse. And the collapse could leave up to 150,000 British tourists stranded overseas. The iconic British travel giant Thomas Cook say they’ve failed to find any further private investment to stave off collapse and now…