Finnair Flights to Bangkok Begin on Thursday

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Finnair and tour operator Aurinkomatkat say flights to Bangkok should resume on Thursday.
Some 1,000 Finnair customers are stranded in Bangkok. About half of the customers are Finnish.

Finnair says it’s prepared to fly through Phuket if its aircraft are not able to land in Bangkok on Thursday. The national carrier says it should catch up with the backlog of flights by early next week.

“I believe that by early next week we will have completely eradicated the backlog,” said Paavo Virkkunen, a customer relations manager at Finnair.

Altogether the airport seizures have stranded some 300,000 foreign travellers.

Correspondent: Political Crisis Not Over

Thailand’s prime minister resigned on Tuesday after weeks of protests that paralysed his government and closed the capital’s airports. Cargo flights have resumed and protesters promise to lift their siege on Wednesday.

The resignation of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat came after the nation’s Constitutional Court dissolved Thailand’s top three ruling parties for electoral fraud and banned him and other leaders from politics for five years.

However the YLE correspondent in Bangkok says that the political crisis is hardly over. The opposition is displeased with plans to install an interim government made up of Wongsawat allies rather than launch new elections.