Thailand lifts ban on international flights
Thailand has lifted its ban on international flights on July 1. The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) explained the ban on intercontinental flights is normally lifted under some circumstances.
Aircraft and people entering Thailand must comply with the conditions, time limits and guidelines of the authorised folks beneath the Immigration Act, communicable ailments laws, air navigation law and the crisis decree, it added.
The announcement came following the government previously June 29 approved some foreign travel to the country including business travellers and foreigners with spouses, work permits or residency in the united states.
The airports and airline industry bore the heaviest brunt from the ban in April before CAAT allowed some flights to resume in-may.
The Section of Airports said less than 5 million passengers have passed through the country's 28 airports because the start of the year.
This represents a substantial contraction when compared to same period last year, when 9.3 million travellers used the same airports.
Releasing the numbers to get January 1 - June 20, Department Director-General Kawee Kasisam-ang attributed the considerable drop primarily to the COVID-19 pandemic, which prompted border closures and the suspension of scheduled domestic and international flights in early on April.
Kawee further pointed out the 28 airports handled 4.2 million travellers from January 1 - June 20, of whom 54 % were on domestic flights.
A complete of 18,700 flights operated into and out of your airports, a drop of 48 % from the 35,800 flights in 2019, and virtually all - 17,600 - operated on domestic routes.
With the lockdown being progressively eased in recent weeks, a restricted number of domestic flights have have started slowly pushing up airport usage. A daily average around 14,000 travellers have used the 28 airports because the latest, phase four easing of the COVID-19 constraints was implemented on June 15.
The improved number, nevertheless, is a far cry from the daily average of 47,000 passengers who used the 28 airports in the same period this past year.
The airports are owning a movement of between 70-80 scheduled flights a day, down from the daily average of between 160-170 flights in previous years.
CAAT, meanwhile, said the quantity of passengers working with airports nationwide was 279,763 found in the 3rd week of previous month, up 23.9 % from the previous week.
