Airline, embassy aid travelers stranded in Thailand
07:32 08/03/2009

Vietnam Airlines and the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok have set up hotlines to help Vietnamese citizens stuck in Thailand.

 

 

Vietnamese citizens can call the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok at +66 8181 44403, Vietnam Airlines at +66 2655 4137/38/39/40 or Vietnam Airlines’ representative in Bangkok at +66 8182 91616 .

 

Vietnam Airlines will send an Airbus A321 plane from Hanoi today to retrieve passengers from Utapao Airport, some 190 kilometers southeast of Bangkok. Flight VN8302 will take off from Utapao Airport at 9:05 p.m. and will arrive in Hanoi about an hour and three quarters later.

The airline will send another Airbus 321 to retrieve travelers who managed to get from Thailand to the Lao capital of Vientiane by road. Flight VN840 from Vientiane to Hanoi will operate today and tomorrow.

Some 400 Vietnamese nationals, mostly tourists, are believed to be stranded in Bangkok after antigovernment protesters took control of the city’s two main airports.

Reported by Xuan Toan-Xuan Danh

Source : thanhniennews.com