The skies above Thailand shall be filled with Chinese flights this week, with 240 scheduled flights over the Chinese New Year. The Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (Aerothai) introduced that during the vacation period from January 19 to 25, a mean of 34 flights per day are expected to arrive in Thailand from China.
This is expected to deliver a major kick to the tourism business as Chinese tourists can finally travel to Thailand again after three years of pandemic restrictions. Now 240 flights are forecasted to reach during the Chinese New Year interval. This is a massive increase in comparison with last year when the Covid-19 pandemic decimated the journey trade.
According to Aerothai, the traditional schedule has 18 flights arriving and departing from China, but an additional sixteen flights have been scheduled per day through the holiday period. These numbers exclude cargo planes that may also be operating daily between China and Thailand.
The main airport hub of Thailand, Bangkok‘s Suvarnabhumi Airport, is expected to deal with 75 flights from China, or 11 per day. The secondary airport in Bangkok, Don Mueang International Airport, will see one other 52 flights, for 127 flights to Bangkok in whole. Phuket International Airport has seventy eight flights scheduled to reach from China and Chiang Mai airport has one other 35 flights slated.
For the entire month of January, Aerothai forecasts that 37 flights per day on common will join China and Thailand, totalling 1,160 flights this month. This has led to rosy predictions that this 12 months there might be 36,896 flights from China, more than doubling the total number of plans that travelled final yr.
While the numbers appear nice, this month’s flight totals from China are nonetheless a 91% decrease in comparability with January 2019. The 1,one hundred sixty flights for January 2023 are dwarfed by the 12,209 flights from China – 394 per day. Experts at the second are forecasting that the number of flights from China is predicted to recuperate to pre-pandemic levels next yr.
Suvarnabhumi Airport is busy through the vacation though. Tools announced that the airport is predicting over 1.8 million passengers to reach between January 16 and 28, a median of 138,461 per day. International vacationers are expected to make up 1.three million of these passengers with another half a million domestic tourists travelling.
International flights would make up about two-thirds of the arriving planes, with 7,635 flights compared to 3,330 domestic flights. This totals 10,965 arriving and departing flights throughout those 12 days, a mean of 843 per day..