Bangkok Don Muang Airport is moving its domestic flight operation to the revamped Terminal 1 starting August 1 as it is believed to be more efficient and can facilitate some 16 million passengers per year. The Airports of Thailand’s Don Muang Airport Director Wing Commander Pratheep Wichittho said that the 13-million baht revamp of Don […]
THAI Airways will explain to Australian authorities in 30 days why one of its passenger aircraft flew too low in a “serious incident” on its approach to Melbourne on Sunday. A THAI source yesterday said the national flag carrier and the Thai Civil Aviation Department are conducting a joint inquiry to determine the facts behind […]
Singapore – An A380 superjumbo operated by Singapore Airlines Ltd was forced to return to Singapore airport after experiencing engine problems about 20 minutes into the flight, a spokeswoman for the airline said Tuesday. One of the plane’s four engines shut down after encountering ‘surge and high vibration’ as the plane was ascending on its […]
A Thai Airways International flight bound for Phuket was forced to return to Bangkok on Tuesday after failing to land at Phuket International Airport due to bad weather. TG flight 201, which was full, left Suvarnabhumi Airport at 8.30am and was scheduled to land at Phuket 9.20am. However, faced with heavy rains just before the […]
PETCHABURI, 17 July 2011 (NNT) – Lieutenant General Udomdej Sritabutr of 1st Army Area, confirmed that 5 soldiers were in a helicopter accident at the Kaeng Krajaan National park in Phetchaburi province, with no survivors found. The accident resulted from poor weather conditions, causing the helicopter to crash into the mountains. As for the flight, […]
BANGKOK, 17 July 2011 (NNT)- Executive Vice President of Commercial Department, Thai Airways International Public Co. Ltd, Pandit Chanapai announced that from July onwards Thai Airways had resumed its round-trip flights from Bangkok to Japan as per the usual flight’s schedule after the adjustment was made due to the disastrous earthquake and Tsunami incident in […]
An Iranian man was arrested at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport late Friday night while allegedly trying to smuggle 50 snakes in a suitcase out of the country. Ghahremani Arash, 23, was arrested at Gate 1 while he was about to board Mahan Air’s Flight W5 5044. His arrested was announced at a press conference at […]
Thai Airways International launches direct flights from Copenhagen to Phuket as well as additional flights from Bangkok to Copenhagen. Flights on these sectors will operate three times per week respectively, utilizing the Boeing 747-400 aircraft, with service commencing on November 11. These flights may be reserved immediately. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
