Those found to show no signs of infection would be allowed to return home but put on a medical surveillance programme.
They would be told to stay at home over the surveillance period, Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said.
The group of seven students and seven school directors were to arrive at Suvarnabhumi at 11.20pm by a United Airlines flight. They were on an educational exchange programme.
Mr Witthaya said about 300 passengers and cabin crew were on the plane with the Thais.
The students, all from Bangkok, travelled to Mexico last August. Their initial scheduled return was in July. The seven teachers left for Mexico on a study tour on April 25.
Mr Witthaya said his ministry would monitor the health of the 14.
An ambulance was to pick them up at the aircraft once they landed at Suvarnabhumi. They were then to be taken to a surveillance room where they would undergo check-ups.
Staff at the ministry's centre of operations against medical and public health emergencies asked relatives of the 14 people to attend a meeting at Suvarnabhumi airport at 9pm to explain the procedures, Mr Witthaya said.
Any of the 14 found to have fever would be sent for treatment at Bamrasnaradura Hospital. Those without signs of fever could choose to be monitored at the hospital or return home with health kits such as masks, hand-cleaning gel and a thermometer.
Those who opted to return home would be checked by disease control officers every day.
They would be told to avoid leaving home during the surveillance period, Mr Witthaya said.
Deputy Public Health Minister Manit Nopamornbode said the Public Health Ministry had been monitoring the health of international passengers from all airlines.
Those with fever and coughing are advised to immediately see a doctor.
Meanwhile, laboratory test results of the suspected flu case of an 11-month-old boy were last night reported to be negative.
The child had returned from New Zealand and lives in the northeastern province of Buri Ram.
Mexico was optimistic Sunday that the swine flu epidemic is coming under control, as diplomats complained over Mexicans being held in isolation in China although they show no signs of infection.
Mexico, at the epicentre of the international flu outbreak, said the national death toll had reached 19, but Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said "each day we're seeing fewer serious cases."
He said "the mortality rate is dropping" and there were "enough elements to say that we are in a stabilisation phase."
Just days earlier, the Mexican government had spoken of 159 "probable" deaths from the new variant of swine flu, which was shown to be spread by human-to-human contact.
But stringent tests by US and Canadian labs on the mountain of "probable" cases excluded most of them.
In China, Mexico's ambassador complained that Mexicans were being treated unfairly after learning that about 50 were being held in isolation in across the country.
Ambassador Jorge Guajardo succeeded in visiting 10 Mexicans being detained in a hotel in Beijing, but only after a brief standoff with a Chinese official who did not want him to enter.
The ambassador said a Mexican diplomat living in the Chinese city of Guangzhou had been subjected to special testing after his return from Cambodia -- which has no confirmed swine flu cases -- just because he was Mexican.
"We of course object every time somebody is singled out for their nationality, and for no other reason, especially when they have no symptoms or when they are coming from a country that has absolutely no cases," Guajardo said.
Source: Bangkok Post
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