Air passengers can travel to and from airport during curfew hours

 

BANGKOK, May 20 (TNA)

I wonder how the curfew may affect Thai drivers coming to the airport to pick up passengers? I suppose they could offer a proper explanation to the authorities.

I wonder how the curfew may affect Thai drivers coming to the airport to pick up passengers? I suppose they could offer a proper explanation to the authorities.

I don't know. A curfew is a curfew. I doubt such an explanation would be accepted for private vehicles and the the odds of being arrested are too great. I certainly would not ask someone to take that risk just so I can save taxi fare and between police and soldiers stopping the vehicle, I would doubt the driver would ever make it to the airport anyway.

 

I think passengers arriving during curfew hours are just going to have to open their wallets and take a taxi until the curfew is lifted.

I think passengers arriving during curfew hours are just going to have to open their wallets and take a taxi until the curfew is lifted.

Just to clarify, I was not thinking of saving taxi fare. I was thinking of those drivers who work for hotels or have legitimate limo/taxi services to and from the airport. Actually, for that matter, would the curfew apply to "official" taxi meter? Maybe by this time the curfew will be over and it is a moot point.

I was thinking of those drivers who work for hotels or have legitimate limo/taxi services to and from the airport.

Ok, then I misunderstood you. I thought you were talking about friends or family driving out to the airport to pick up passengers or take passengers to the airport during curfew hours.

 

They have been permitting taxis and van services to take passengers to and from the airport during curfew hours. As long as the passenger has the documentation to prove he is on his way to catch a flight or has just arrived at the airport, they have not been unreasonable about it.

What khun GB tells here is even official-published as such by TAT or govmt.

In do not know about Pattaya-I have stayed in BKK this week. The 2 hrs before the curfew starts it is about impossible to find any taxi willing to go on the meter. They flatly refuse to go to airport by then-out of fear to get stalled there the whole night (understandably). The airportbuses have also been suspended-for 20+21/5 at least. The AOT says it has chartered buses at 22.00/0.00 and 2.00 to bring arriving passenegrs to 3 main hotelzones-incl. Silom of all places. THAI advises any passengers to either arrive before the curfew or to stay in airport till after 6.00, if arriving late.

(which lead to the remark: in dec. '08 we could not get In the airport-and now we can not get OUT of the airport!)

But as it goed like it goed yesterday, it seems a big cvhance it will be lifted and anyway-arriving people are very, very few indeed at the mo.

SUNEE PLAZA included the following as part of his information:

 

A passenger who arrived late at the airport had no problem coming down to Pattaya in a taxi. No challenges were made.

 

Sunee Plaza, Gay Pattaya, Gay Thailand