Thailand’s domestic air travel is seeing a 60% drop in the early weeks of the new year, thanks to the recent Covid-19 outbreaks around the country. The Department of Airports drew the figure from 20 airports under its supervison nationwide, according to Apirat Chaiwongnoi, the acting Director-General of the department.
Such domestic passengers at those airports also dropped in numbers from 30,000 per day before the new year, to 12,000, along with the number of aircraft in the sky dropping as well. Domestic travel was already well down on pre-Covid traffic levels, despite a slow increase over the past 6 months of 2020.
Apirat says before the long new year weekend, 160 flights went in and out of those airports on an average day, but now they have dropped by 40-60%, some parts of the country hit harder than others. He claims the reason for the drops is due to travellers not feeling…
