South Korea bans Thai charter flights, affecting 10,000 passengers

South Korea is banning charter flights from Thai airlines after Thai negotiation team failed to convince Korean civil aviation authorities in the first-round talk. Civil Aviation Department director general Somchai Piputwat disclosed that Thai civil aviation team flew to South Korean on April 2 to talk to the Korean authorities on the international Civil Aviation […]

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Thai tour agents concerned about report of Japan’s ban of Thai chartered flights

Thai Tour Agents Association has urged the Civil Aviation Department to seek an explanation from its Japanese counterpart whether chartered flights from Thailand has been barred from landings in Japan. Mr Suparoek Surangkoon, president of TTAA and Noomsao tour agency, said he was concerned about the yet to be verified report about the banned chartered […]

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Flights affected by smog in Mae Hong Son

BANGKOK, 17 March 2015 (NNT) – Smog in the northern province of Mae Hong Son has caused disruptions to air travel for five days. Air pollution there is still considered as harmful to health. Mae Hong Son Governor Suraphon Phanat-amphon said the current PM10 level in the province was 280 micrograms/cubic meter, decreasing from yesterday […]

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Divers retrieve 100th corpse from Java Sea jet crash

Divers yesterday recovered three bodies from December’s air disaster in the Java Sea. Added to four retrieved on Friday, they bring the total to 100. An additional 62 victims remain to be recovered. There were no survivors when Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed on December 28. The six-year-old Airbus A320-200 was 40 minutes from Juanda […]

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