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‘Transport’ explains why more than 300 passengers are stuck at Phuket airport

‘Transport’ explains the cause of more than 300 Vietjet Thai passengers stuck at Phuket airport, highlighting the fact that it was caused by excess passengers. So had to return to the pit stop, resulting in a delay, unable to close the runway for repairs at 11:30 pm, so unable to continue flying Had to fly again December 2 at 10.34

December 2, 2022 – Mr Sakkayam Chidchob, the Minister of Transport, revealed that he had received reports of cases where more than 300 passengers were stranded at Phuket Airport on December 1. From the investigation, it was found that the incident was caused by Thai VietJet Airlines, flight VZ309, Phuket-Suvarnabhumi route Inform Phuket Air Control Tower Request to return to the pit stop after the aircraft entered the runway (09) at 12:05 am due the problem of passengers exceeding the capacity of the aircraft Caused by an inbound flight, flight VZ2304, Suvarnabhumi Airport – Phuket. Can’t fly to Phuket.

As a result, the airline had to manage to transfer part of the passengers out of flight VZ2305 to flight VZ309, causing delays for the flight to fail to fly. before the runway closure time (according to the flight announcement between 23.30 and 07.30 hrs.) Runway closure notice for runway maintenance – Fiscal Year 2016 runway and runway destination safety improvement contract (RESA) after the event, the airline decided to bring some passengers to the accommodation. The flight can fly again on December 2, 2022 at 10:34 am

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