Nok Air chief executive Patee Sarasin has confirmed the airline will resume normal operations next week, denying a rumour that recent flight cancellations were caused by pilots quitting. Read more: Bangkok Post
The captain of a Bangkok Airways flight bound for Phuket aborted the take-off from Suvarnabhumi Airport on Sunday afternoon after four Thai passengers were reported to have had a “conversation” that triggered a bomb-threat emergency response. The conversation was reported to the airport’s Security Control Centre (SCC) which triggered the emergency response. Flight PG 924 […]
Nok Air today announced the cancellation of 20 flights on Tuesday February 23, and instructed passengers to contact its call centre 1318 for more information. No reason was given for the cancellations of the domestic flights, but the airline apologised for the inconvenience caused to its passengers. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
BANGKOK — Nok Air has been warned it could lose its license if it repeats the poor handling of a crisis that left hundreds of passengers stranded Monday as the airline denies a former manager’s accusation that it has been using unqualified trainees to fly its planes. The Tuesday warning from the Ministry of Transport […]
A protest by a small group of pilots has forced Nok Air to cancel nine flights on Sunday causing hundreds of passengers to be stranded at Don Mueang international airport. Nok Air CEO Pathee Sarasin said that he had not talked with about 4-5 protesting pilots yet about the reason of their protest but he […]
A City Airways flight to Hong Kong with more than 100 passengers was grounded at Don Mueang airport on Saturday after the airline became the third to face suspension this year. The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand said fresh doubts were cast over City Airways’ safety standards and the airline missed a key deadline on […]
A travel agent has been arrested and charged with fraud after several dozen people complained she accepted payments from them of 8.4 million baht for air tickets she failed to deliver. Sunattha Srisawat, 33, was detained under an arrest warrant issued in December 2015 on a charge of cheating the public. A native of Bangkok, […]
Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee yesterday declared pilot error to be behind the crash of Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501. All 162 passengers and crew died when the plane crashed into the Java Sea a year ago. The Airbus A320-200 was around 40 minutes from Surabaya’s Juanda International Airport to Singapore’s Changi International Airport when it […]
