Boost for transit passengers

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Boost for transit passengers

Transit passengers catching connecting flights through Don Muang airport will not have to pay the 500 baht airport tax if they sign up for tours around Bangkok after February.

Final arrangements are being made for the project, which is targeted at the hundreds of passengers who transit through Bangkok every day and have to wait several hours before catching their onward connecting flights. The Association of Thai Travel Agents, the official tour organiser, will be allowed to operate an office inside the terminal area.

The tax waiver is an additional incentive offered by the airports authority to passengers who have to wait for up to 12 hours.

Eight tour programmes will be offered lasting 4-5 hours:

- City and temples tour.

- Thonburi khlong and shopping tour.

- Grand Place and shopping tour.

- Thai boxing and shopping tour.

- Ayutthaya, Bang Pa In Summer Palace and shopping tour.

- Bangsai Arts and Craft Village and shopping tour.

- Thai food, night market and shopping tour.

- Thailand Grand Sale tour.

Tour costs would vary accordingly. The great shopping opportunities offered along with most tours are in line with the TAT's effort to promote Thailand as a world-class shopping destination.

Information on tour programmes will be provided to all transit passengers arriving at the airport through a number of inflight collaterals.

Passengers keen to join the tours will need to contact one of the two tour counters to be set up on both sides of the Transit Hall and fill in the application form requesting the exemption of airport tax.

Officials will assist passengers with all immigration formalities and take them to join the selected tours.

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