Thai AirAsia has just kicked off its latest low-priced flights promotion for early next year. Passengers can bag themselves a bargain on domestic Thai and international bookings with a certain quota of seats on offer at all-inclusive prices beginning at THB490 for a one-way trip.
The planet’s leading inflight wireless internet service provider has announced it is joining forces with Nok Air. Global Eagle Entertainment says the Thai budget carrier is set to become the first in Asia to provide complimentary onboard internet access for passengers.
The governor of the Thai tourism bureau has announced the successful upgrade of its app for Apple and android smartphones. Thawatchai Arunyik, the director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), says the New Amazing Thailand app is better than its predecessor and offers more functions and more detailed information.
An Indian budget airline is all set to increase its flight schedule between Kolkata and Bangkok later this week. IndiGo is adding an extra flight to its daily services between the East Indian metropolis and the Thai capital from Friday 26 September.
Officials in Ho Chi Minh City have put forward the idea of trams to relieve burgeoning traffic congestion in Vietnam’s most populated metropolis. Announcing news of the project, the Transport Bureau’s deputy director said the provisional plan called for tram routes to cover around eight kilometres of downtown streets.
Local authorities in the northern Thai town of Mae Sai say the international border crossing with Myanmar is now open again. The border post was temporarily closed on Friday after the Mae Sai River had burst its banks the night before.
Bangkok Airways has released news of a promotional campaign to encourage passengers to use its online check-in service. The Thai carrier says passengers will garner an extra five kilogrammes of checked baggage allowance if they use the web service.
The derailment of a train yesterday in the far south of Thailand has forced the national rail authority to cancel services on the route until Sunday. The affected line runs from Hat Yai to Sungai Kolok and passes through the provinces of Pattani and Narathiwat.
Senior police officers have released a statement saying that one of the main roads in Bangkok will be closed for most of this weekend. The closure is to mark the city’s annual Car Free Day and the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority has urged Bangkokians and tourists alike to use public transport over the weekend.
The boss of the Lao Airports Authority told reporters this week that the bureau planned to recruit more personnel to deal with burgeoning tourist numbers. Somboun Daosavanh stated that the bureau had a three-year plan to increase staff at existing airports in the landlocked Southeast Asian nation as well as two new ones due to open next year.
Local officials in Nan say that the scene is all set for the first leg of the annual longboat races held on the Nan River. The festival is a celebration of Northern Thai culture and heritage and the first racers will be on starting orders on Saturday 21 September.
Thai AirAsia announced this week that it is launching a new route linking southern Thailand and southern China. Flights between the Thai Andaman seaside town of Krabi and Guangzhou are all set to take off on 6 November 2014.
Budget carrier NokScoot has launched a Facebook page even before its first aircraft has made its maiden passenger voyage. A spokesperson for the airline stated that any promotions to celebrate the launching of the airline will be shown on the online networking site’s NokScoot page.
Thai Airways has announced that passengers are forbidden to pack power packs for mobile media devices in their checked luggage. Giving news of the ban, director Smud Poomon stated that there had been several reported incidents over the past few years in which the packs’ lithium batteries had overheated and caught fire.
Meteorologists have warned that heavy rainfall is expected across Thailand later this week. Thai weather forecasters say that Typhoon Kalmaegi will hit the north and northeastern regions of the country on Thursday or Friday.
Chinese carrier Shandong Airlines has announced it is launching a route linking its home base to Cambodia’s two principal air gateways. A spokesperson for the Cambodian Civil Aviation Division said the first flight from Jinan was due to operate today, but was still awaiting final approval.
A major Middle Eastern airline has announced it will launch a direct route to Phuket next month. The CEO of Qatar Airways announced earlier in the week that it will commence services on the direct route from its home base of Doha to Phuket on 26 October.
Myanmar’s immigration minister has stated that the nation’s newly introduced tourist e-visas will soon be available to all citizens of the European Union (EU). Minister Khin Yi told reporters this week that although citizens from some EU nations could apply for e-visas online, this option was not available to residents of others.
Thai carrier Nok Air Has announced it is adding the southern Thai town of Satun to its network. In a press release, the airline says it will begin operating services from Don Muang Airport in Bangkok to Satun on 2 October 2014.
The refurbishment of a terminal at Bangkok’s second is behind schedule and is expected to be completed one year later than first planned. The work on Terminal 2 at Don Muang Airport was scheduled to be partially completed in time for a soft opening next month.