Buriram Expats
Buriram Province - General Category => Travel forum => Topic started by: urleft on February 26, 2015, 05:03:53 PM
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February 25, 2015
http://www.thaitravelblogs.com/2015/02/airasia-launches-bangkok-buriram-daily-flights/ (http://www.thaitravelblogs.com/2015/02/airasia-launches-bangkok-buriram-daily-flights/)
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AirAsia will soon be launching a new direct route in Thailand from Bangkok?s Don Mueang airport to Buriram in the Northeast of Thailand. Buriram was one of the places chosen for the Tourism Authority of Thailand?s ?Cities That Can?t Be Missed? campaign as it has a variety of appeals. The city is home to world renowned stone castle Panom Rung Castle as well as Mueang Tum Castle, another well known landmark that draws many visitors each year. Buriram also has a more modern draw as it is a leading location for sporting activities with its Motor Sports stadium and leading Thai football team, Buriram United, who are both Thai Premier League Champions and considered major contenders in Asia.
Mr. Santisuk Klongchaiya, Director of Commercial for Thai AirAsia, remarked that ?Don Mueang-Buriram? is a route that AirAsia has been excitedly waiting to introduce for sometime as it builds on the airline?s connection to the wave of sporting fervor that has developed over the past 2-3 years. He revealed that sports fans have been calling out for the route continuously and assured that AirAsia is glad to be able to help football fans travel to see their favorite team more comfortably with AirAsia?s great prices, noted on-time record and fleet of Airbus A320s, all ready to seat up to 180 passengers each day.
The new route ?Don Mueang-Buriram? begins flying on 2nd April 2015 in time for the Khao Phanom Rung Festival. The new route will be launched with a debut promotional fare starting at only 390 Baht per trip and is available for booking from today until 8 March 2015 for travel from 2 April 2015 to 26 March 2016 at www.airasia.com and all AirAsia ticketing channels; all Counter Service and 7-11 branches, via the mobile app, authorized agents, AirAsia Counters nationwide or through the Call Center Tel. 02-515-9999.
Source: Press Release
Wow, I could have saved myself 900 baht with the 390 baht price. Just checked and the flights are available. Looks like the flights are 2 hours earlier than Nok Air.
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February 25, 2015
http://www.thaitravelblogs.com/2015/02/airasia-launches-bangkok-buriram-daily-flights/ (http://www.thaitravelblogs.com/2015/02/airasia-launches-bangkok-buriram-daily-flights/)
party6
AirAsia will soon be launching a new direct route in Thailand from Bangkok?s Don Mueang airport to Buriram in the Northeast of Thailand. Buriram was one of the places chosen for the Tourism Authority of Thailand?s ?Cities That Can?t Be Missed? campaign as it has a variety of appeals. The city is home to world renowned stone castle Panom Rung Castle as well as Mueang Tum Castle, another well known landmark that draws many visitors each year. Buriram also has a more modern draw as it is a leading location for sporting activities with its Motor Sports stadium and leading Thai football team, Buriram United, who are both Thai Premier League Champions and considered major contenders in Asia.
Mr. Santisuk Klongchaiya, Director of Commercial for Thai AirAsia, remarked that ?Don Mueang-Buriram? is a route that AirAsia has been excitedly waiting to introduce for sometime as it builds on the airline?s connection to the wave of sporting fervor that has developed over the past 2-3 years. He revealed that sports fans have been calling out for the route continuously and assured that AirAsia is glad to be able to help football fans travel to see their favorite team more comfortably with AirAsia?s great prices, noted on-time record and fleet of Airbus A320s, all ready to seat up to 180 passengers each day.
The new route ?Don Mueang-Buriram? begins flying on 2nd April 2015 in time for the Khao Phanom Rung Festival. The new route will be launched with a debut promotional fare starting at only 390 Baht per trip and is available for booking from today until 8 March 2015 for travel from 2 April 2015 to 26 March 2016 at www.airasia.com and all AirAsia ticketing channels; all Counter Service and 7-11 branches, via the mobile app, authorized agents, AirAsia Counters nationwide or through the Call Center Tel. 02-515-9999.
Source: Press Release
Wow, I could have saved myself 900 baht with the 390 baht price. Just checked and the flights are available. Looks like the flights are 2 hours earlier than Nok Air.
Something certainly worth Woo Woo-ing about Keith, well done.
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From my standpoint I am very glad to have more competition into Buriram. But more than that, there are business opportunities here.
I am seriously considering one, just have to sell my boss (the TW) on it. Money is available to be made here, you just have to be ready to invest and accept loss.
I have said before, successful people are those that have tried and failed, then tried again. I think I am on my 4th or 5th tried again.
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I wonder how long it will last.
Airlines have been increasing, decreasing and cancelling schedules from Bangkok to Buriram and back again for as long as I can remember.
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I wonder how long it will last.
Airlines have been increasing, decreasing and cancelling schedules from Bangkok to Buriram and back again for as long as I can remember.
Agree. But my money is on AA to KO Nokair
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Welcome news, but it seems poorly thought out IMHO.
Buriram Airport has minimal facilities for handling passengers, a single check in desk, a one person four table snack bar, no secure car parking, no taxis or buses and a ratty old pick up shifting baggage to and from the aircraft.
It's busy enough dealing with the 36(?) seater aircraft Nok Air uses.
When Air Asia start with their 180 seater carrying 5 times the passengers footballscarf it'll be nothing short of chaotic.
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Welcome news, but it seems poorly thought out IMHO.
Buriram Airport has minimal facilities for handling passengers, a single check in desk, a one person four table snack bar, no secure car parking, no taxis or buses and a ratty old pick up shifting baggage to and from the aircraft.
It's busy enough dealing with the 36(?) seater aircraft Nok Air uses.
When Air Asia start with their 180 seater carrying 5 times the passengers footballscarf it'll be nothing short of chaotic.
As I said earlier, business opportunties, the TW and I are looking into ours.
For Example, why not an airport hotel?
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Welcome news, but it seems poorly thought out IMHO.
Buriram Airport has minimal facilities for handling passengers, a single check in desk, a one person four table snack bar, no secure car parking, no taxis or buses and a ratty old pick up shifting baggage to and from the aircraft.
It's busy enough dealing with the 36(?) seater aircraft Nok Air uses.
When Air Asia start with their 180 seater carrying 5 times the passengers footballscarf it'll be nothing short of chaotic.
As I said earlier, business opportunties, the TW and I are looking into ours.
For Example, why not an airport hotel?
12 rooms 3 meter square. Each room bright multi exterior color and an adjacent car port with a curtain. Might be OK. :biggrin:
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Welcome news, but it seems poorly thought out IMHO.
Buriram Airport has minimal facilities for handling passengers, a single check in desk, a one person four table snack bar, no secure car parking, no taxis or buses and a ratty old pick up shifting baggage to and from the aircraft.
It's busy enough dealing with the 36(?) seater aircraft Nok Air uses.
When Air Asia start with their 180 seater carrying 5 times the passengers footballscarf it'll be nothing short of chaotic.
AA have done their homework as Newin is sorting out transport & underwriting any losses over the first year
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Welcome news, but it seems poorly thought out IMHO.
Buriram Airport has minimal facilities for handling passengers, a single check in desk, a one person four table snack bar, no secure car parking, no taxis or buses and a ratty old pick up shifting baggage to and from the aircraft.
It's busy enough dealing with the 36(?) seater aircraft Nok Air uses.
When Air Asia start with their 180 seater carrying 5 times the passengers footballscarf it'll be nothing short of chaotic.
DJ, you will probably remember when Gatwick was little more than a potato field - Rome wasn't built in a day.
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It's good to see even the most cynical blokes saying positive things about this and I truly hope it is a success.
Remember TIT.
Research here will always show what the boss expects/wants.
I can see 180 people wanting to visit Buriram a couple of times a year for the International motorcycling and a few times a year for football; but every day?
I'm with Starman on this. redman
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After Songkran, watch the bottom drop out. mhihi
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It's good to see even the most cynical blokes saying positive things about this and I truly hope it is a success.
Remember TIT.
Research here will always show what the boss expects/wants.
I can see 180 people wanting to visit Buriram a couple of times a year for the International motorcycling and a few times a year for football; but every day?
I'm with Starman on this. redman
I flew with Nok last month and I would estimate that the flight was 2/3 full to BKK and 3/4 full coming back. (No where near 180 mind you - perhaps Air Asia have some turbo props)....
Not enough people for URLeft's hotel though......
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It's good to see even the most cynical blokes saying positive things about this and I truly hope it is a success.
Remember TIT.
Research here will always show what the boss expects/wants.
I can see 180 people wanting to visit Buriram a couple of times a year for the International motorcycling and a few times a year for football; but every day?
I'm with Starman on this. redman
I flew with Nok last month and I would estimate that the flight was 2/3 full to BKK and 3/4 full coming back. (No where near 180 mind you - perhaps Air Asia have some turbo props)....
Not enough people for URLeft's hotel though......
What about a short time hotel? love1
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It's good to see even the most cynical blokes saying positive things about this and I truly hope it is a success.
Remember TIT.
Research here will always show what the boss expects/wants.
I can see 180 people wanting to visit Buriram a couple of times a year for the International motorcycling and a few times a year for football; but every day?
I'm with Starman on this. redman
I flew with Nok last month and I would estimate that the flight was 2/3 full to BKK and 3/4 full coming back. (No where near 180 mind you - perhaps Air Asia have some turbo props)....
Not enough people for URLeft's hotel though......
AA is all jet A320 fleet
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Welcome news, but it seems poorly thought out IMHO.
Buriram Airport has minimal facilities for handling passengers, a single check in desk, a one person four table snack bar, no secure car parking, no taxis or buses and a ratty old pick up shifting baggage to and from the aircraft.
It's busy enough dealing with the 36(?) seater aircraft Nok Air uses.
When Air Asia start with their 180 seater carrying 5 times the passengers footballscarf it'll be nothing short of chaotic.
DJ, you will probably remember when Gatwick was little more than a potato field - Rome wasn't built in a day.
Think you'd be better asking Birthday Boy (TMWG) about that one, CoCo.
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Welcome news, but it seems poorly thought out IMHO.
Buriram Airport has minimal facilities for handling passengers, a single check in desk, a one person four table snack bar, no secure car parking, no taxis or buses and a ratty old pick up shifting baggage to and from the aircraft.
It's busy enough dealing with the 36(?) seater aircraft Nok Air uses.
When Air Asia start with their 180 seater carrying 5 times the passengers footballscarf it'll be nothing short of chaotic.
As I said earlier, business opportunties, the TW and I are looking into ours.
For Example, why not an airport hotel?
12 rooms 3 meter square. Each room bright multi exterior color and an adjacent car port with a curtain. Might be OK. :biggrin:
That sounds more like a short time knocking shop (so somebody told me)
cheergirl whistle whistle
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Welcome news, but it seems poorly thought out IMHO.
Buriram Airport has minimal facilities for handling passengers, a single check in desk, a one person four table snack bar, no secure car parking, no taxis or buses and a ratty old pick up shifting baggage to and from the aircraft.
It's busy enough dealing with the 36(?) seater aircraft Nok Air uses.
When Air Asia start with their 180 seater carrying 5 times the passengers footballscarf it'll be nothing short of chaotic.
DJ, you will probably remember when Gatwick was little more than a potato field - Rome wasn't built in a day.
Think you'd be better asking Birthday Boy (TMWG) about that one, CoCo.
I may be getting on a bit ~~~ but I am not that old!!! pre WW2 Gatwick was a horse racing track. Converted to airfield for the war. Not sure about the spuds pre racetrack!
sawadi TBWG
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While not part of the Buriram route, it makes you wonder about AA:
AirAsia pilot ends up in Melbourne instead of Malaysia after navigation error
Crew of Airbus A330 entered wrong coordinates for flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur and had to divert after error was noticed
An AirAsia flight from Sydney to Malaysia ended up in Melbourne instead when the pilot entered the wrong coordinates into the internal navigation system, an air safety investigation has found.
The Airbus A330 was scheduled to leave Sydney international airport at 11.55am on 10 March 2015, and arrive in Kuala Lumpur just under nine hours later.
Instead, through a combination of data entry errors, crew ignoring unexplained chimes from the computer system, and bad weather in Sydney, it landed in Melbourne just after 2pm.
Melbourne airport is 722km southwest of Sydney. Kuala Lumpur is 6,611km northwest.
According to a report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) published on Wednesday, the problem occurred when faulty earmuffs prompted the captain and first officer to swap their usual pre-flight checks.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/07/airasia-pilot-flies-melbourne-malaysia-navigation-error (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/07/airasia-pilot-flies-melbourne-malaysia-navigation-error)
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While not part of the Buriram route, it makes you wonder about AA:
AirAsia pilot ends up in Melbourne instead of Malaysia after navigation error
Crew of Airbus A330 entered wrong coordinates for flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur and had to divert after error was noticed
An AirAsia flight from Sydney to Malaysia ended up in Melbourne instead when the pilot entered the wrong coordinates into the internal navigation system, an air safety investigation has found.
The Airbus A330 was scheduled to leave Sydney international airport at 11.55am on 10 March 2015, and arrive in Kuala Lumpur just under nine hours later.
Instead, through a combination of data entry errors, crew ignoring unexplained chimes from the computer system, and bad weather in Sydney, it landed in Melbourne just after 2pm.
Melbourne airport is 722km southwest of Sydney. Kuala Lumpur is 6,611km northwest.
According to a report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) published on Wednesday, the problem occurred when faulty earmuffs prompted the captain and first officer to swap their usual pre-flight checks.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/07/airasia-pilot-flies-melbourne-malaysia-navigation-error (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/07/airasia-pilot-flies-melbourne-malaysia-navigation-error)
I had a bit of a chuckle reading this. ATSB took a full 18 months to release their report on this incident ? HUH ?
Sure, it was serious, but apparently the cause was immediately identified as "pilot error" on the day it occurred in March 2015.
No crash, nobody died, plane didn't disappear etc etc.
18 months for a report ?
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I had a bit of a chuckle reading this. ATSB took a full 18 months to release their report on this incident ? HUH ?
Sure, it was serious, but apparently the cause was immediately identified as "pilot error" on the day it occurred in March 2015.
18 months for a report ?
Strewth mate what's the bloody rush?
The fair dinkum blokes down at the ATSB were probably busy throwing another Wallaby on the Barbie, tying a Kangaroo down or maybe drinking some Tinnies under a Koolibar tree.
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Much more worrying is this:-
According to a report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) published on Wednesday, the problem occurred when faulty earmuffs prompted the captain and first officer to swap their usual pre-flight checks.
Earmuffs ? ? ?
Was it an airplane or an Alaskan Dogsled ?
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You would think a trained pilot and co-pilot would notice they were traveling north rather than west. Also, wouldn't the plane have a GPS display like passengers was view on flights?
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You would think a trained pilot and co-pilot would notice they were traveling north rather than west. Also, wouldn't the plane have a GPS display like passengers was view on flights?
Apparently there were whoops going off all over the place.
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You would think a trained pilot and co-pilot would notice they were traveling north rather than west. Also, wouldn't the plane have a GPS display like passengers was view on flights?
"Trained pilots?" I guess it depends on what they're trained to do?
Much of the modern day "training" of pilots centers around pushing buttons and loading the so called "computer". (Especially in developing countries, who have no surplus of qualified pilots...Air Force or robust general aviation.)
It goes to show that the airplanes actually ARE reliant upon pilots, and not just automatically flown.
What blows my mind, other than the pilots not recognizing a course of almost 90 degrees deviation from the flight plan...is the fact that the ATC controllers didn't observe the same, and make some noise about it. I mean, Sydney to Melbourne is not even close to the intended routing.
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Hard for me to pan the ATC personnel. I was involved in crowded airspace operations in Washington DC, they would just care that outbound are safely and non threatening out of the way, they don't care/monitor where they are going.
Having worked air infringement operations I would put this totally on the aircraft flight crew (OK, maybe the airline should have personnel monitoring), the ATC focus would have been to keep the Sydney ingress and egress routes open.