News in Asia

From 23 to 28 March Thailand will celebrate the 117th anniversary of state Railways. During these days which were named “Thai Railway Week” a lot of interesting events will be offered for travelers.

The third time the construction of new Siem Reap International Airport’ Terminal was delayed because of troubles with design and layout.

The popular network of ubiquitous 7-Eleven shops in Thailand might become the best place for life as they expand the list of options available in it.

All Nippon Airways of Japan reported the launching new direct flight from Tokyo to Hanoi in Vietnam. This route will be opened on 30 March this year to meet the growing demand among Japanese travelers.

The variety of flights in the Southeast Asia region will be greatly increased due to code-share agreement between Bangkok Airways from Thailand and Qantas carrier from Singapore.

As Pol Gen Pongnakorn Nakornsantiphap, Mae Sot border checkpoint’s director reported, 300 000 baht were allocated for its expansion.

Now the traveling to Pakse from the Thai capital, Bangkok with a good low-cost carrier Nok Air becomes possible. The airline presented new interesting Fly ‘n’ Ride service.

As Malaysia Airlines’ Authorities reported on this week, notorious Kuala Lumpur – Beijin flight with number MH370, which was mysteriously lost last Saturday morning, will be renamed in MH318.

At this week Bluebox Avionics supplied Apple’s tablets iPad Mini to Thai airline Bangkok Airways. They are available as new free in-flight entertainment for carrier’s customers in Blue Ribbon Class.

Hanoi turns to environmentally friendly transportation. As the city’s Administration reported, they will equip it with 250 cycles soon.

No, the budget carrier of Thailand, Nok Air doesn’t offer to fly to Hawaii, but it launches amazing sales for domestic flights.

As a forth part of Don Mueang Airport’s expansion, it will be
connected to the Bangkok’s transportation system by monorail, the
Airports of Thailand reported.

A few days ago the main carrier of Indonesian Garuda Indonesia made a big step in its 64-years history and was included in the global airline alliance SkyTeam.

In May this year the big unit of Malaysian airline Air Asia will be opened in India. This event is accompanied by a mass of conflicting opinions.

On 8 March the Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok, which operates the most of budget and domestic flights, celebrated 100 years from the first day of its work.

All Vietnam Airlines flights to and from Tho Xuan Airport, the northern capital in Vietnam, were canceled.

In June this year the first in Malaysian history Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) will start to work. As expects, it will serve 2,400 passengers per hour.

Airports of Thailand reported, that in the next month all of its six airports will be equipped with free WiFi.

Air Asia as the most actively developing airline plans to sell old aircrafts for to buy the new later.

The user with the name Syver Lauritzsen has load an interesting video in Internet, which became a popular very quickly. 1.31-minute clip on YouTube shows us an incident, happened during Thai Airways flight.