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Airlines to resume Bangkok flights

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FLIGHTS RESUME: Qatar Airways hopes to start running normal services to Bangkok after political unrest forced the suspension of flights. (ITP Images)

Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways both plan to resume normal services to Bangkok on Friday following the suspension of regular flights due to political unrest in Thailand.

Qatar Airways and the UAE's Etihad said that their twice-a-day flights to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport from are set to start again, provided the airport is operating as normal.

All flights to the airport have been suspended since November 25, when political unrest gripped the Thai capital after the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) seized the airport.

As a result, the airlines have been running special flights from U-Tapao International Airport, south of Bangkok, for passengers stranded in Thailand.

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Etihad said it will also operate additional charter flights until Monday from Bangkok to Abu Dhabi which will ensure Etihad can fly more than 3,000 passengers out of the Thai capital over the next three days.

"This has been an extremely frustrating time for everyone caught up in and affected by the recent events in Bangkok,” Qatar Airways chief executive officer, Akbar Al Baker, said.

"We will resume normal scheduled services as soon as we get confirmation from the Thai authorities that it is fine to do so," he said.

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