BANGKOK, Jan 20 – A protest by hundreds of Thai Airways employees at Suvarnabhumi Airport to demand increased salary and bonus payments ended after THAI board of director agreed to raise salary by the maximum level of 7.5 percent. After the meeting and negotiation between THAI board and representatives of the labour union, the maximum […]
BANGKOK, Jan 19 – Some 600 Thai Airways International (THAI) employees protested at Suvarnabhumi Airport today, demanding a 7.5 per cent pay rise and two months bonus. The rally interfered with today’s flights, airline officials said. In addition to the rally itself, THAI staff refused to move the airline’s aircraft from their assigned waiting areas […]
Thai Airways International has reaffirmed its plan to purchase the Boeing 787, more commonly known as the Dreamliner, despite a series of operational problems faced by carriers currently using the new aircraft. Chokchai Panyayong, THAI’s senior executive vice president for strategy and business development, yesterday said that although the national airline had no Dreamliners in […]
BANGKOK, Jan 10 – Thailand’s PC Air sued two South Korean companies following last year’s case where the carrier’s passengers were left stranded at South Korea’s Incheon Airport. PC Air’s CEO Peter Chan told a news conference that the airline charged a South Korean oil company and Skyjet travel agent in South Korea, asking the […]
BANGKOK, Nov 16 – THAI Smile Air, a budget airline operated by Thai Airways International (THAI), will be split off as a sister company of the national flag carrier, according to a resolution by the THAI board of directors. Board chairman Ampon Kittiampon said today that THAI president Sorachak Kasemsuwan has been instructed to map […]
Solar Air airlines will add new routes from U-Taphao airport to Siemreab and Chumphon airports beginning November 9. The new routes are partly in anticipation of increased tourism business from the ASEAN Economic Community pact in the year 2015. The new flights will be offered four days a week. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com
BANGKOK, Oct 26 – The Department of Civil Aviation has suspended the operation licence of PC Air until the private-owned airline clarified how its only plane was grounded leaving passengers stranded at South Korean airport. The Department Director General Voradej Harnprasert said that PC Air submitted a request for charter flight operation licence for November […]
PC Air, the airline that launched last year amid publicity for it transgender flight attendants, has been ordered to halt flights by the Civil Aviation Department after it stranded Thai tourists for two days in South Korea when it could not pay its fuel bill. After being stranded at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport since Tuesday, […]
