The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has downgraded Thailand’s aviation sector, setting the stage for possible worldwide bans of Thai-registered airlines. “A reassessment in July 2015 found that Thailand did not meet international standards,” the US regulation agency said a statement posted on its website on Tuesday. Read more: Bangkok Post
NEARLY 100 domestic and international flights to Chiang Mai International Airport have been cancelled or postponed between November 24 and 26 over fears of passenger safety due the sky being littered with floating lanterns from the Loy Krathong Festival. The same concerns have seen flights cancelled or rescheduled at Chiang Rai’s Mae Fah Luang Airport […]
BANGKOK, 8 November 2015 (NNT) – More than 100,000 passengers are expected to pass through Suvarnabhumi Airport on a daily basis during the high season. The director of Suvarnabhumi Airport said the airport will be handling up to 160,000 passengers a day during winter which is a high season. The high season starts on October […]
The Russian Airbus A321 which crashed in Egypt Saturday killing 224 broke into pieces midair, but it is still too early to determine the cause, Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said Sunday. “It is too early to draw conclusions,” MAK executive director Viktor Sorochenko said. “Disintegration of the fuselage took place in the air, and the […]
A Lion Air flight was abruptly cancelled yesterday afternoon after one of the passengers jokingly suggested that his carry-on bag might have contained explosives in his bid to attract a flight attendant, an ongoing police investigation revealed. Pol Colonel Surachet Bandhit, superintendent of Don Muang Police Station, said yesterday the joke was made when a […]
Air Asia is adding another three flights to the U-Tapao Airport. In addition to the new route to China we announced yesterday three more are on the way. Domestic route direct to Udon Thani, and international flights to Macau, and Singapore. The continuous stream of new routes is meant to aide both Pattaya’s tourism industry […]
An addition of one million Chinese tourists are expected to visit Pattaya each year after Air Asia has agreed to operate two new direct routes to two Chinese cities scheduled to be launched on September 25. In order to accommodate the anticipated rise of Chinese tourists visiting the world’s famous seaside resort town on the […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The plane belonging to Trigana Air Service lost contact with air traffic control when it was en route from Sentani Airport to Oksibil, both located on the island of New Guinea, National Search and Rescue (SAR) Agency wrote on its Twitter account. There are 54 people, including five children, aboard, the agancy […]
