Hamburg - German package-holiday companies cancelled holiday departures Thursday for 1,200 Germans because Bangkok's international airport remains occupied by demonstrators.

The holiday companies, which had also cancelled outbound trips on Wednesday, were conferring with airlines on how to bring holidaying Germans home on schedule, with both of Bangkok's civilian airports closed.

Lufthansa, Thai Airways International and Air Berlin's LTU unit cancelled all Bangkok-bound Thursday departures.

Lufthansa and Thai Airways said they would resume flights on Friday, using other airports in Thailand.

A fully-booked late Thursday departure from Frankfurt would for example be rescheduled to 9.50 am Friday morning German time and would land on the holiday island of Phuket, Lufthansa spokesman Thomas Jachnow said.

Passengers would be taken by bus to Bangkok.

Thai Airways said it would scratch its departures from Munich for the time being, and fly from Frankfurt only on Friday and Saturday, landing at U-Tapao, an old air force base on the outskirts of the capital. (dpa)