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.
Southeast Asian regional airline Firefly is all set for the launch of its new route between the islands of Koh Samui and Penang this week. The first service is scheduled to depart from Penang at 08:35 on 11 September and land on Samui 1 hour and 10 minutes later.
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Thai Lion Air is marking the launch of its new service to Phuket with cut-price fares. One-way tickets for the new route between Don Muang Airport in Bangkok and the Andaman Sea Island begin at THB515.
Following successful trials, Myanmar launched its long awaited online visa application service on 1 September. The new e-visa system will enable tourists to get acceptance letters that they can use at recognised gateways to the country to collect their visas.
The CEO of Thai AirAsia X has stated that the carrier is increasing
the frequency of flights on two new routes from Bangkok to Japan. Nadda
Buranasiri told reporters at Tokyo’s Narita Airport on Monday that strong
advance reservations for the routes had spurred the low-cost airline into
adding an extra nine flights a week.