[Moderna vaccine to be available from October]

For those of you wondering, yes you could get both shots.  I got the Moderna straight away (older) , my wife first got the J&J in the trials and then a month later after they unblinded the study telling her she had gotten the actual vaccine, she then got both Moderna shots as well.  Doc said it would not cause a problem, if anything it might help her a bit more.  No adverse reactions at all.

[Permanent Residence. Thai Language Ability?]

On 4/6/2021 at 12:26 AM, Bredbury Blue said:

I have decent but BASIC Thai language skills, listening is better than speaking. By that i mean i can get comfortably go round on my own, order things, explain my requirements, understand most of what is said to me, etc. If i listen to the Thai news though, i struggle to follow it as there are many words and expressions i am not familiar with.

 

Everything i had read said the Thai language part wasn't difficult so i thought with a few months Thai language practice before the test i should be good to go, so the the wife and i went to get the forms and ask some questions in November last year at Chaeng Wattana. That was it really, we wanted a set of forms and the wife was going to ask a couple of very simple questions.

 

The lady on the desk though was having none of it. She gave me a right grilling in Thai, when i tried to speak in English she wouldn't permit it. I really struggled with the speed she was talking to me and some of the vocabulary. She basically destroyed me. Honestly, this turned in to being my worst experience with a Thai in all the decades i have been here (and before anybody chips in, yes i know i should be fluent in Thai by now - wish it was that easy though).

 

When my wife tried to assist me by jumping in to the conversation, the lady on the desk was having none of it. She basically reprimanded my wife.

 

To cut a long story short we came out of the Chaeng Watthana Immigration Office feeling like we'd received a right good slap. I decided i would study Thai seriously and we'd go back, my wife decided that no way was she going back. So thank you to the lovely lady on the desk.

 

The outcome was that i will now not bother with trying to get Permanent Residence and will stay on a non-O Support Thai Wife until i pop my clogs!

 

I hope that my BAD experience might be helpful in answering the OP's question "My Thai language skills are VERY rusty. Is this likely to be a problem?".

 

 

 

 

Same lady (there are two, she is at the second desk) and the exact same same experience, a horrible attitude.  I would not recommend a pre-visit its demoralizing.

[Thai Airways confirms A340-600 fleet retirement in March 2015]

You see now? This is a typical example of why Thai fails to make a profit. If they've configured their A340-600s in a 267 seating layout, then something is seriously pear-shaped there because the standard seating capacity in a two class configuration is 359 passengers according to Airbus.

But as we're all aware, Thai provides 15 free first class tickets to their directors, their families and accompanying passengers and so they have to configure the seating capacity to reflect that.

What's more, the 747-400 drinks fuel like a fish and unless they're going to re-engine all of them, switching to that model will cost them even more the A340-600s do even though the larger aircraft can carry more passengers.

Not really the reason.

The A340-600's in 267 seat layout were specifically set-up for the very long haul BKK-JFK, BKK-SFO and BKK-LAX non-stop routes. Weight/fuel reserve considerations limited seating to 267. When I flew this route: JFK to BKK non-stop in 2006, it was a 16.5 hour flight over the North Pole.

Seating in coach was great; 2-4-2 with extra wide seats and lots of leg room...what would be premium economy now.

When fuel prices skyrocketed around 2008, they started loosing money on these flights even when they were full. BKK-JFK was the first to be cancelled, then SFO and finally LAX. By that time, they had switched those routes to B777's. There might have been other US cities serviced non-stop but I'm not aware of them

Dave, I think you will find these were the A340-500's on these long hauls, same Aircraft SQ flew in an 80 seat all business class configuration on those routes, they were set up for extreme long hauls.

[American And Fluent In Thai, Can I Get A Job Besides Teaching?]

Khan,

I registered so I could respond to this post. If you present yourself well, speak both languages fluently and have the right attitude today is your lucky day, I will send you a PM on where to go and who to see.....

Dont believe a word you read on salaries, aerospace engineers in multinational companies salaries are based on competition across the region.

Check you PM and Good luck