Finnair has launched the primary worldwide flight to Krabi with a flight operating from Helsinki 4 times per week. The inaugural take a look at flight got here final week on December 1 and brought 96 travellers to the tourism hotspot that has been struggling to reopen. After the primary flight final week, regular service began on Wednesday and can run through March 24.
The first relaunching Finnair flight was welcomed at Krabi International Airport by a crowd of business executives and top-level tourism operators. โซล่าเซลล์คุณภาพดี of Thailand officials joined the greeting with the Krabi Office Director and the Deputy Executive Director Europe, Africa and the Middle East Region available in addition to the Krabi Airport Director, the Chairman of the Krabi Chamber of Commerce, and the Presidents of the Krabi Tourism Association and Krabi Hotel Association.
TAT Governor Yuthasak Supasorn known as the reopening of the Finland to Krabi route a “good signal for us” as he spoke of the significance of the Scandinavian market serviced by this new flight route.
“Finnair is an important inbound airline for Thailand’s tourism industry, bringing quality vacationers from Finland and the Nordic market. The resumption of Finnair’s Helsinki-Krabi route is a good signal for us, as Thailand reopens to tourism and with the Visit Thailand Year 2022 marketing campaign developing.”
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, travellers from Finland were what the TAT and government has been calling high-quality tourists. 128,012 Finnish travellers came to Thailand and spent 10.1 billion baht, a median of over 79,000 baht per person. An spectacular 50% of these travellers – and that tourism revenue cash – were in Krabi, with sixty three,375 guests from Finland spending over 5 billion baht.
Now Krabi welcomes back the Finnair flights alongside a bunch of charter flights operated by TUI. The Department of Airports permitted a measure to extend the number of worldwide flights permitted to land in Krabi throughout December. Scoot Airlines will now operate a flight from Singapore three instances per week and 5 constitution flights are scheduled from Scandinavia throughout the month: from Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, and Gothenburg..