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Bangkok floods disrupt flights, strand thousands of bags

Rank
Ran
40h
Updated
6d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
2
Countries
7
Languages
3

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The Thaiger Thailand · English 28 Sept, 05:17 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Melayu (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 41 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Thanh Niên, 28 Sept, 01:26 UTC.
  2. Second country: Thailand, with The Thaiger.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 29 Sept, 06:31 UTC.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with Gulf News.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

42 of 42 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

88%12%

  • Asia-Pacific 7 outlets · 6 countries · 88%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. Thanh Niên 28 Sept, 01:26 UTC
  2. The Thaiger +3h 52m
  3. CNA +26h 41m
  4. Utusan Malaysia +29h 5m
  5. South China Morning Post +29h 8m

Last to join

  1. Nikkei Asia 29 Sept, 18:40 UTC
  2. Free Malaysia Today 29 Sept, 12:59 UTC
  3. Gulf News 29 Sept, 12:16 UTC
  4. South China Morning Post 29 Sept, 06:33 UTC
  5. Utusan Malaysia 29 Sept, 06:31 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 2 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 6: Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. Middle East 1: United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Malay, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Thanh Niên, 28 Sept 2026, 01:26 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 02:00 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 18:40 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Thailand. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by Thai Airways struggles with 10,000 bags stranded after Bangkok floods; Nordmenn rammet av flykaos. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
29 Sept 2026 204 6.18 8 7 7 6 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 02:00 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 18:40 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 7 outlets

  • Nikkei Asia Japan 29 Sept, 18:40 UTC
    Thai Airways cuts 30% of flights in response to flooding
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 29 Sept, 12:59 UTC
    Thailand floods kill at least 23, Bangkok airport in chaos
  • The Thaiger Thailand 29 Sept, 10:19 UTC
    Thai Airways apologises as floods delay flights, strand 5,600 bags
    +3 more articlesHide 3 more articles
    • Thai Air Force assists with delayed luggage at Suvarnabhumi 29 Sept, 03:26 UTC
    • Thai Airways’ staff shortage, delayed baggage, and flight cancellations linked to Bangkok flooding 29 Sept, 02:40 UTC
    • 6 airlines let passengers hit by floods move flight or hold fare 28 Sept, 05:17 UTC
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 29 Sept, 06:33 UTC
    One Bangkok flood battle after another as Thai Airways races to clear baggage backlog
  • Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 29 Sept, 06:31 UTC
    Thai Airways batal penerbangan akibat banjir Bangkok
  • CNA Singapore 29 Sept, 04:07 UTC
    Thai Airways cuts flights, battles baggage chaos as Bangkok floods ease
  • Thanh Niên Vietnam 28 Sept, 01:26 UTC
    Vietjet nhanh chóng hỗ trợ hành khách bị ảnh hưởng bởi ngập lụt tại Bangkok

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates 29 Sept, 12:16 UTC
    5,000 bags stranded at Bangkok airport after floods disrupt flights
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