{"id":1961,"date":"2014-11-05T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2014-11-05T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:15:58","slug":"when-loy-krathong-disrupts-air-traffic-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/1961-when-loy-krathong-disrupts-air-traffic-in-thailand","title":{"rendered":"When Loy Krathong disrupts air traffic in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year it&#8217;s the same thing, Loy Krathong and its big release of sky lanterns \u00a0disrupt air traffic in the Kingdom. I must say that if it is a spectacular\u00a0thing to watch, it is not without risk. Airlines\u00a0fear that one of the lanterns get swallowed by a reactor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1892\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1892\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/yi-peng-festival-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Yi peng festival\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/yi-peng-festival-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/yi-peng-festival-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/yi-peng-festival.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yee Peng Festival in Chiang Mai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The airlines had to adapt their schedules flights from and to Chiang Mai Airport, where the release of lanterns is the largest in the country (especially during\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/895-chiang-mai-yee-peng-festival\">the famous Yee Peng Festival<\/a>). From\u00a05 to 7 November 2014 Thai Airways canceled two flights per day between Bangkok and Chiang Mai. The schedules of Thai Smile\u00a0flights , the low-cost subsidiary of the Company, to Chiang Mai and <a href=\"\/eng\/cities\/chiang-rai.php\">Chiang Rai<\/a>, have been advanced. While Air Asia has cancelled\u00a042 flights to and from Chiang Mai, Bangkok Airways has cancelled\u00a0twelve flights and modified 9 others. In total, 112 flights were cancelled and\u00a050 more advanced or delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Chiang Mai Airport recorded over 1400 lanterns crushed within its walls.<strong> In short, if you plan to take a plane to or from Chiang Mai today until November 7, check out the flight schedules.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year it&#8217;s the same thing, Loy Krathong and its big release of sky lanterns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}