Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has instructed authorities to charter an Airbus-380 aircraft to fly Thai evacuees out of Israel, in addition to over 30 flights arranged with Nok Air, Air Asia, Thai Airways International and China’s Spice Jet airlines.
There are also six special flights by Royal Thai Force’s Airbus 340-500 aircraft arranged for October, with the first having already left for Tel Aviv early this morning (Sunday). It isscheduled to arrive back at Don Mueang airport on Monday morning after 10 countries, including Israel, granted overflight permission to pick up Thai evacuees from Israel.
After chairing the Rapid Response Centre meeting at the Foreign Ministry this afternoon, the prime minister told the media that, although 32 flights have been arranged with the four commercial airlines, which can fly about 5,700 Thais out of Israel, they are still not sufficient for…
