Update on SAR Screening at airport (I arrived)

[Guest]

I believe everyone's passport contains an admittance stamp showing the flight number and date of entry. Of course you might talk it down to 500 to save a trip to the station to look up the flight schedule. A new wrinkle on the old game.

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

"I believe everyone's passport contains an admittance stamp showing the flight number and date of entry."

It does, but my point is that a policeman can't tell just by looking at you.

And it would be quite a bit of a hassle to question every single farang they encounter.

 

Sanuk!

 

[steffi]

Well they can't without random passport inspections to try and ascertain where you have come from in the first place. It's a ridiculous rule.

[steffi]

Unless the police have a list of all flightnumbers entering the country you cannot tell just by looking at a flight number what the routing was.

[rickfarang]

"Unless the police have a list of all flightnumbers entering the country you cannot tell just by looking at a flight number what the routing was."

 

And how long would it take an enterprising person to put together a list of those seventy-some odd flights that fall under this requirement?

 

If the fine is 10,000 baht, the hit rate on random stops wouldn't have to be that high to make it worth while (Figure if 200 baht average were to be the threshold to make it worth while, then if one out of 50 stops resulted in a "bonus" it would be worth it.).

[Guest]

I arrived late night on April 1st, and didn't notice anything different from my other trips. I came in on NW from Toyko, and a few passengers had on mask, and the flight was about 25% empty. This is a first on the Toyko to Bangkok run for me. Once in Bangkok and now down in Pattay, business same as in the past, with just a fewer less people around. Most of the hotels in Pattaya, are still booked for Songkran.

 

My only problem is that N400 followed me down from Pattaya.

[Guest]

Perhaps I was a bit vague in my original remarks, but an opportunistic gendarme wouldn't need to "tell" anything. He'd merely need to offer the chance to avoid a trip to police station to confirm your version of events. Cash would work.

 

I don't think this particular approach would work with the majority of farang visitors, only perhaps the minority with some other irregularity they don't want probed. But this angle could be worked very hard against Asian visitors who didn't speak Japanese, Korean or fluent, Western-accented English.

[keith doug]

I live near London and have a planned trip in may..However I like others dont cancy a mask and would stay at home for certin,,,Infact I am at the point of cancelling now,,,

[Guest]

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[NokTang]

Am I to assume the police along Sukmivit or Beach Road in Pattaya are actually asking Farangs for Passports?

 

I don't carry my passport around, despite knowing it is required and stupid of me to wander bareback.

 

thanks

 

Nok the Kook