On Thursday, after five years of development, the Airbus Beluga XL, painted with eyes and a smile to match its cetacean namesake, made its maiden flight, taking off from and landing at Toulouse, France, in front of a crowd of 10,000. The craft is expected to enter service next year. Airbus plans to use the […]
PHUKET: The storm that hit Phuket late yesterday afternoon left huge swathes of the island without power for up to six hours and forced air traffic controllers to divert several flights from landing at Phuket International Airport for safety. A tree felled by the strong winds brought down power lines along Thepkrasattri Rd, causing a […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Hua Hin airport began servicing regular fights for the first time on Friday as AirAsia launched its new service between Hua Hin and Kuala Lumpur with four direct flights a week. The maiden flight landed at Hua Hin airport about 11am, an hour after departing Kuala Lumpur, with about 150 Malaysian passengers, […]
Police are investigating a claim by a Japanese woman that 3 million yen (Bt874,000) in cash and a camera were stolen from her bag aboard a Thai Airways International flight from Tokyo International Airport. The woman, whose name was withheld, filed a complaint with the Suvarnabhumi Airport police shortly after her flight landed at 5pm […]
Singapore Police Force (SPF) has arrest of a 41-year-old male passenger on board a Scoot flight TR634 from Singapore to Hat Yai of Songkhla province for allegedly making false bomb threat today (April 5). Flight TR634, which left Changi Airport at 1.20pm, was escorted back by two Republic of Singapore Air Force fighter jets, after […]
A Nok Air plane on a flight from Sakhon Nakhon to Don Mueang airport yesterday (Feb 18) was forced to return to the airport after less than a minute of take-off after having engine trouble. The incident was revealed on the Facebook page of the Thai Aviation Club after a passenger on Flight DD9407 posted […]
PHUKET: Thailand’s national air safety agency is investigating a Thai Airways flight from Hong Kong veering off the runway on landing at Phuket International Airport on Dec 28. The respected The Aviation Herald, which reports air safety incidents supported with flight data, reported the incident as a “runway excursion on landing”. Full story: thephuketnews.com The […]
A Thai Airways flight which faced a bomb threat before take-off at a Swedish airport arrived at Phuket airport on Saturday afternoon. Monrudee Gettuphan, general manager of Phuket airport, said flight TG963 Stockholm-Phuket-Bangkok landed at Phuket airport at 1pm. It would later fly to Suvarnabhumi airport, she said. The flight was originally scheduled to arrive […]
