Bangkok airport closed

I was due to travel to Bangkok today for a connecting flight to London tomorrow. Because the airport is closed there are no flights - any ideas on how to get to Bangkok gratefully received!

Bangkok airport closed

I am presuming you%26#39;re in Siem Reap??

You can get a bus to the border. Think you have to get a taxi across the border. Then another bus. Takes ages and the roads are meant to be crap.

I saw buses advertised in ';Jasmin Lodge'; Siem Reap.

The only only place Siem Reap flies to is Kuala Lumpar. Weather you could head to there and catch a different flight back to London?

Bangkok airport closed

I would phone your airline and ask what they%26#39;re doing about the flights - whether if you got to another hub could you fly home from there - like singapore, hong kong etc. If they can put on a flight from there then you can figure out how to get there - should be able to get there via PP

I doubt very much a normal schedule will be leaving bangkok in the next few days!

Why do you not just sit tight where you are for a couple of days when the airport is SUPPOSED to re-open , check your flight with your travel agent or airline , they will inform you when the flight out of BKK is available . You could just go down to Phnom Penh and experience the city , you can catch a bus in PP to Aranyapatet , about 5/6 hours , cross the border , take a tuk-tuk into town to the bus station , catch the bus to BKK about 5 hours .

Do not go near the trouble spots in BKK .

Had a sudden thought (ooh , brain strain) Bangkok air have an office in Phnom Penh you could enquire at for flight status , ask at a travel agent for phone number .

Another update , Don Muang airport has now been closed down and Thai airways has closed down also , the only safe airport is reported to be Puket .

Suvanabhumi is now being scheduled to start service at 6pm , but it is suggested not to count on that anouncement , several countries are now warning against flights into Thailand because the problem is escalating . One suggestion has been to try and reschedule your flight from Kuala Lumpur which i believe you can fly to from Phnom Penh .

All i can do is wish you the best of luck , much of this problem is about Asian %26#39;FACE%26#39;, a stupid idealism in my book .

Well , they have declared %26#39;A state of emergency%26#39;and the airport will be cleaned out of protesters , powers that be %26#39;SAY%26#39; the airport will be open on saturday , believe it when you see it .

I%26#39;m waiting anxiously, and according to the news, it looks like the riot police are poised to clear out the protesters very soon. What a hassle this has created for thousands of travelers. I%26#39;m flying via BKK to PP on 12/20, 3 weeks away, but who knows what%26#39;s going to happen between now %26amp; then. Hoping everything will be resolved very soon. Good luck, Katy!

According to the news: protestors stated that they wont give up. If you are in Siem Reap you can detour Bangkok by going to Singapore, Malaysia or Vietnam instead.

The airport/airlines/staff/entire tourist industry is losing millions of dollars per day. The police and army have guns. The PAD demonstrators do not. Figure out what%26#39;s going to happen next!

MANEKI,

I would suggest you rebook your flight to SR from either Vietnam or Kuala Lampur, as I would not count on this being resolved any time soon.

Some of your assumptions about the police %26amp; army are in correct. The demonstrators that are holding both Bangkok Airports (and the PM%26#39;s compound) hostage are supported by the Thai king %26amp; the army (who staged a coup a few years ago)... the police are trying not to take sides.

Whereas the democratically elected PM is supported by the air force %26amp; the overwhelming majority of poor %26amp; rural Thais, who elected the PM %26amp; the congress into power.

The problem lies in that the %26#39;rebel%26#39;s are trying to overthrow a democratically elected PM %26amp; congress because they don%26#39;t like their reforms. The %26#39;rebels%26#39; want to overturn the electorate so that individual Thais do not have the right to elect their officials; they want them to be appointed.

The rebels believe that the poor/rural Thais are not %26#39;educated enough to vote responsibly%26#39;... The PM %26amp; his predecessor Thaksin (who stayed at the BKK Penn. right before we did last spring) instituted market reforms which gave the rural farmers direct access to the marketplace as opposed to going through middle men (who cheated them on price)... and many of the middle class/rebels were involved in reaping the profits of that middle man based market system.

So, in reality the %26#39;rebels%26#39; are actually not reformers, but reactionaries who want to roll back the market reforms %26amp; disenfranchise the poor from voting.