One hundred thousand tickets on AirAsia will be issued and are valid between Jan. 6 and March 31, 2009, the discount airline said. Passengers have to pay any taxes and fees. (Photo: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)Airline offers 100,000 free tickets to Thailand
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Agence France-Presse
BANGKOK - Budget carrier AirAsia on Wednesday offered 100,000 free seats to Thailand to lure back foreign visitors after a siege of Bangkok's airports by anti-government protesters.
The airline said the seats would be available between Wednesday and Friday and cover services from Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jakarta, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, as well as from Thailand itself.
The tickets are valid between Jan. 6 and March 31, 2009, it said. Passengers have to pay any taxes and fees.
"Thailand is a great place in the world to visit. I am optimistic," the airline's chief executive officer Tony Fernandes told reporters in Bangkok late Tuesday.
Protesters lifted an eight-day siege of Bangkok's international and domestic airports on December 3, after a court outlawed Thailand's ruling party and barred the prime minister from politics.
The blockade left around 350,000 passengers stranded in the country and images of exhausted tourists sleeping on baggage check-in belts led to predictions that tourist numbers could fall by half next year.
New Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was voted in by parliament on Monday and has vowed to help restore the country's battered economy and international image.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said AirAsia's free seats campaign would help draw foreign visitors back to the country faster and boost the Thai economy next next year.
"Thailand is back to normal and the campaign will help us maintain our tourist projections, especially from the Asian region," said TAT governor Pornsiri Manohan.
The airline said the seats would be available between Wednesday and Friday and cover services from Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jakarta, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, as well as from Thailand itself.
The tickets are valid between Jan. 6 and March 31, 2009, it said. Passengers have to pay any taxes and fees.
"Thailand is a great place in the world to visit. I am optimistic," the airline's chief executive officer Tony Fernandes told reporters in Bangkok late Tuesday.
Protesters lifted an eight-day siege of Bangkok's international and domestic airports on December 3, after a court outlawed Thailand's ruling party and barred the prime minister from politics.
The blockade left around 350,000 passengers stranded in the country and images of exhausted tourists sleeping on baggage check-in belts led to predictions that tourist numbers could fall by half next year.
New Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was voted in by parliament on Monday and has vowed to help restore the country's battered economy and international image.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said AirAsia's free seats campaign would help draw foreign visitors back to the country faster and boost the Thai economy next next year.
"Thailand is back to normal and the campaign will help us maintain our tourist projections, especially from the Asian region," said TAT governor Pornsiri Manohan.
8 comments:
The Thais will have to pay me to go back to the Land of Devious Smiles
Well, at least it's a nice, naughty smile from that hot chick in red shirt!
If they offer me her free rear-entry ticket I might consider it. Anything for the Motherland!
no one is so stupid again to go to the land of gay and lesbian.
don't be fool by their offer in the turmoil of thing! it's probably not a good time to come to visit thailand right now as the airport is closed and tourists are scrambling to get out of that country. of course, they will try to lure tourists back to spen money there. but please be wise about that. there are more places and options destinations beside thailand, like cambodia for example which is an exotic, new destination as there are many, many things to see and do in cambodia as well. please discover the magic of cambodia and you will probably never want to leave again. cambodia is a magically place for all. god bless cambodia.
Free tickets, free P....?? damn, that bad?? fucking siamese looser!
those 2 chicks whould get yo........3 IN THE PINK 1 IN THE STINK .......SOME FUCKING HATE BANGIN.......LOL
CAMBODIA MUST SEEK UN SECURITY COUNCIL FOR HELP!!!
CAMBODIA MUST INFORM WORLD COURT ABOUT THAILAND'S VIOLATION OF THE 1962 ICJ DECISION ON PREAH VIHEAR.
CAMBODIA MUST ASK FOR UN PEACEKEEPING TROOPS AGAINST THAI AGGRESSION.
CAMBODIA MUST NOT WASTE ANY MORE TIME...PROLONGING THAI OCCUPATION OF 4.6 KM2 OF PREAH VIHEAR AREA = LOST OF KHMER TERRITORY!!
WAKE UP HUN SEN!!!!!
KHMER PEOPLE MUST UNITE AND EXPELL ALL FOREIGNERS OUT OF CAMBODIA.
LAND THAT THAI STOLE FROM CAMBODIA IN BROAD DAY LIGHT = PREAH VIHEAR, POIPET, TA MOAN, TA KRABEI...WE MUST PROTEST GOOGLE, WIKIPEDIA ONLINE SATELLITE MAP TO COMPLY WITH 1904-07 FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY AND UN MAP, NOT THAI-MADE MAP!!!
MAY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GREAT KING JAYAVARMAN VII PROTECT OUR KHMER NATION!!!
Fuck thais free ticke! your dying king will have to bow down and let me step on his head!! got that?
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