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The One Two Go Thai airline has finally crashed for good we can hope. It has canceled all its planned flight for the next 2 month. Let’s hope they cancel it for good since the airline is a mess in airline security. If you bought tickets I suggest hurray to the main office and cash those in before the whole company goes bankrupt.

The airline is also in the in the press now because many people are suing them for the crash last year in Phuket.

I used to live in Phuket in south Thailand 6 years ago, before the Tsunami. I came two years as a tourist and after that I was sold on the place.

I remember the first time I come out from the airport and I thought Bangkok was hot but the humidity in Phuket was really bad the first minute. The second thing I remember was the chaos in the airport taxi queue and as you probably know by now it is controlled by mafia. Not that you will ever notice but there is not many price to pick from when you come without booking a hotel first.

Do not ever book a hotel from the airport and do not go with the busses for free that is going to take you to some travel agency. They will take you to some agency outside Patong beach and you will not be able to get out from there if you not book with them. Well you can if you a lot of money, much more then you would normally.
I did that mistake but I paid with credit card so when I came to town I called them and said sorry I want to cancel and I called my bank and told them what happen.

What you can do instead is book a hotel before you go to Phuket that will always be much cheaper then drop in. The only hotel that is cheaper with drop is the small hotel for back packers that you can find in Lonely Planet for example. But do you really want to live like a backpacker when Phuket has so many nice hotels and bungalows.

The hotel if it is a good Phuket hotel will almost all the time provide a free van from the airport. You do not have to hassle with the van people in the airport and you will get the best price on hotel then you can ever get.

A plane from the Bangladesh airlines had to make an Emergency landing on the old airport of Don Muang Airport in Bangkok. One Bangladeshi national had taken up a fruit knife and start eating fruit. Even if was not violent the captain made a extra landing to get him off the plan.

The man was apparently mentally retarded. The Thai government will send a protest to Malaysia on how the knife could enter the plane.

The Mafia in the new Bangkok airportthe moment but not dead. They are waiting for the police to slow down and get tired of chasing them.

According to the police the are 3 gangs that run the operation of illegal taxi and vans and scam tourist of the money the Airport authority of Thailand want to scam them on.

The prices the mafia and the AOT ask same and the cars they use are similar but AOT says that the mafia robs the tourists something I never heard off.

Anyway the tempo is color now in the airport when you not have to here TAXI TAXI TAXI every 2 meters but they are limited to the boys and girls in green.