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"BANGKOK: -- From April 1 onwards, public transport vans that are speeding beyond 90kms/hour on tollways, expressways and motorways would be find at Bt5,000, Land Transport Department chief Somchai Siriwattanachoke said."

So that means 120km on the road outside my house will be just fine then!

There's major education needed for the locals too. Now being too scared to light their fires during the daytime & of being spotted, my neighbours in the village behind our moo baan now simply wait until it gets dark & then light their rubbish fires! Unbelievable - so we wake pretty much every morning to a light smoke haze, spiced up with a sprinkle of carconagenic toxins from burning waste plastics!

softgeorge, on 2012-03-21 13:44:20, said:

Whatever makes you think a precurement like this must be for sex tourists? Or is it the thousands of establishments that exist in just about every city & town in the Kingdom, dedicated to serving the HUGE domestic / local market (which have absolutely nothing to do with sex tourism) aren't really there & don't exist? Sex tourism is just the small tip of a far larger iceberg, with the domestic market for locals being the vast mass below the waves!

rubl, on 2012-02-22 22:53:24, said:

I found e-mags on the TAT Bangkok sites at http://www.tatbangkok.com/E-MAG-TAT_2 & http://www.tatbangkok.com/TAT50_E-MAG - seems strange though that both e-mags are available in Thai language only!

Can we assume from this that TAT Bangkok don't want to encourage foreign visitors!?!?

Under the Australian Credit Card Act, if you pay by your (Australian) credit card & the service is ultimately not provided, you can apply to your financial institution and they are legally bound to reverse the credit card charge. So Aussies who've paid for their tickets by credit card can apply to get their money back from their financial institution. This of course does not help people who have paid for tickets in cash or EFT, nor does it help people who have paid for tickets using non-Australian based credit cards.

Some Australian travel insurance companies will cover the loss as a result of the collapse of an airline & others will not - so check your policy. I know of one company who ceased providing such cover in their policy last Dec. So if issued ahead of this cut off date, people would be covered & if afterwards, then not.

Even if covered, the insurance company will only cover the cost of the actual ticket purchased. By this I mean that if you bought a ticket on Air Oz for $800 but it costs you $1,200 to buy a replacement, you're only covered for the $800 initial loss & not the additional cost of repurchasing. So people need to be careful!