Originally Posted by
Matt4
According to the Emirates website it looks like they aren't returning until September now.
That could be a good thing.
My only remaining family is my brother and his family living in Thailand.
They have a similar size population to the UK.
UK, 39,000 deaths, Thailand 58 deaths....
Thailand has been getting new covid +ve cases at the rate of 1 every 1 or 2 days but now the lockdown rules are easing and people are getting back in from abroad the number of new cases is rising. Only slowly so far but yesterday there was a big jump to 17 new cases.
Almost all the new cases are from people coming back in from the Middle East.
It would be politically impossible to open our skies and airports for travel but block SA and the rest of the Middle East, they give our economy too much money, so the best possible thing is if the airlines see routes as uneconomic and don't fly in at all.