Air India Announces Vande Bharat Flights To Thailand Starting October 29: What We Know

As more and more countries are opening up and international travel is becoming much less complicated, Air India has announced the resumption of flights to Thailand.

According to the schedule released by Air India, the flights will start on October 29 between Mumbai and Bangkok.

Air India will also operate a total of 16 flights between India¡¯s Chennai, Delhi, & Mumbai and Bangkok, Thailand in November 2021.

Reuters

According to the Indian Embassy, Indians stranded in Thailand due to travel restrictions may register themselves with the Embassy of India by filling up the registration form.

Registration form is available for Indian national/OCI card holders.

Upon successful registration you will see a success message on the screen.

Contact Air India on +6622165591 or airindiabangkok@gmail.com for flight schedule, seat vacancy and ticket booking.

The passengers need to get RT-PCR done within 72 hours of departure.

AP

Last month, Thailand had announced that under the "Phuket Sandbox" programme, fully vaccinated travellers from a total of 78 countries including India will be allowed to visit the country.

The "Phuket Sandbox 7+7 Extension" program which was launched in July reduces the mandatory stay in the resort island for fully vaccinated international travellers from 14 to seven days, after which another seven days can be spent in alternative tourism hotspots in Krabi, Phang-Nga or Surat Thani.

AFP

Though it was initially limited to a few countries, given the number of Indians visiting Thailand every year, the country was added to the list recently.

Based on Thailand's Ministry of Tourism and Sports data, almost 2 million Indians visited Thailand in 2019 making them the third-largest group of foreign nationals to visit the "land of smiles" that year.

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