Airport Authorities To Introduce 35 Baht Background Screening Check

[Coss]

Airport authorities to introduce background screening check at six airports with 35 baht extra charge per head

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Beginning early December inbound and outbound passengers at the country's six international airports have to pay 35 baht each for background screening check charge after the Airports of Thailand (AoT) introduced the new system to check passengers.

 

The system called the Advance Passenger Processing System (APPS) will boost airport security by screening each passenger more closely than the current system in use.

 

According to Bangkok Post, It allows customs officials, airport and airline staff and immigration police to obtain the profiles of passengers from their countries of origin.

 

They will be able to check if passengers are blacklisted or banned from leaving a country.

 

Authorities will share passenger information and ordinary passengers whose profiles are clean can pass immigration checks faster.

 

AoT says it will take about three months to introduce the system and another month for testing before putting it in use in December.

 

The APPS will be put in use in six international airports namely Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Mae Fa Luang in Chiang Rai, and Hat Yai.

 

The APPS fee will apply to international passengers arriving and departing from the airports, as well as transfer and transit passengers, he said.

 

Airlines will be responsible for collecting the 35 baht additional charge, which will be incorporated into the air ticket price, AoT chairman Nitinai Sirismatthakarn said.

 

However, the Airline Operations Committee (AOC) has complained that airlines aren’t ready for the change as they have already sold a number of advance international flight tickets.

 

It has urged the AoT to consider postponing the plan for three months from December to allow sufficient time for the airlines to prepare.

 

Source: http://englishnews.t...charge-per-head

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And from the bleeding obvious:

 

So they don't do this now? Unlike every other country with a few exceptions like Laos.

 

And no-one in the entire, exorbitant process, can absorb a measly 35 bht cost.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dexi]

Why leave out Udon ?

[pasathai1]

will it operate at a profit ?

[cavanami]

will it operate at a profit ?

 

...it will for someone!

[baa99]

So you have to tip them for checking your junk?

[Mekong]

 

 

 

According to Bangkok Post, It allows customs officials, airport and airline staff and immigration police to obtain the profiles of passengers from their countries of origin.

 

They will be able to check if passengers are blacklisted or banned from leaving a country.

 

 

 

 

What about Retired expats in Thailand who have already undergone Police Clearance Check as part of Visa Application Process?

 

What about expats who are Thai Based for one reason or another and have Thai Police Clearance Check for neighbouring countries?

 

Not much thought gone into this obviously