THAI'S MAGAZINE TAKES FLIGHT

Sawasdee, the in-flight magazine for Thai Airways, must be popular.
Earlier this month, less than a week after it had presumably been delivered to the airline, copies were on sale at Bangkok's very own magazine Mecca, the Chatuchak Weekend Market.
Yes - a free magazine on sale. Yes - I did buy a copy.
Regular readers of The Bangkok Bugle will know the process where, through some miracle, copies of international magazines left on inbound aircraft find their way to several magazine retailers at Bangkok's popular weekend market.
My visit earlier this month netted at least a dozen magazines that are either not normally available throughout the bookshops in Thailand, or are sold at pretty high prices. Often the current editions of magazines arrive at Chatuchak weeks before anywhere else in Thailand. My dozen titles on this trip cost just a little more than buying one conventionally-sold title at Asia Books or Kinokuniya.