Phuket simply welcomed the first worldwide flight arriving from Russia as an Aeroflot flight from Moscow landed at Phuket International Airport right now. 275 passengers rode the inaugural flight since Russia was added to the record of sixty three approved Test & Go countries that may journey to Thailand with out quarantine (aside from an in a single day anticipate a negative RT-PCR test in an approved SHA+ or AQ hotel).
The Aeroflot airplane departed Moscow final night at 7:15 pm and flew nonstop to Phuket, touchdown at eight:45 this morning after a virtually 10-hour flight. The Russian Consul General in Phuket reported that this primary Aeroflot passenger flight marked a return of Russian travellers to the island after 19 months with out flights to Phuket.
He also confirmed that Aeroflot shall be operating 2 flights each week between Moscow and Phuket starting subsequent week.
Russia has been experiencing a surge of Covid-19 infections on the rise since the beginning of October and has seen an average of about 39,000 new cases per day within the final week and trending upward. Despite ผลไม้ของฝาก being a key vacationer demographic for Phuket historically, it was not surprising they didn’t make the original listing of forty six countries that totally vaccinated travellers had been allowed to journey from with out quarantine, but perhaps as a outcome of stress from tourism associations, it was added to the expanded listing of sixty three accredited countries approved for quarantine-free journey to Thailand.
This follows the Russian-made Sputnik V being added to the listing of accredited vaccines for passengers arriving into Thailand in August, regardless of earlier in June failing to win approval for use in vaccination in Thailand. That approval allowed Russians vaccinated with Sputnik V to enter the Phuket Sandbox with a 7-day soft quarantine on the island before being allowed to depart the province. Now they’ll journey to popular Russian vacation locations like Bangkok and Pattaya in addition to Phuket.
Flights between Russia and Thailand are scheduled to resume absolutely on November 9 with twice per week flights from Moscow to Bangkok and Phuket in addition to weekly flights from other main Russian airports..