A Re-Visit To Krabi By Tiger Airways.
October 20, 2009 by KDSH
Filed under Local News & Event
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This coming Sunday at 14.50 pm, Krabi Discovery, on behalf of the Tourism and Hospitality Industries of Krabi, extends a warm welcome to Tiger Airways Flight TR 182 on their re-visit to Krabi and all our distinguished visitors a warm and happy holiday.
This is the second attempts by Tiger Airways to connect flights from Changi Air Hub to Krabi. Since its last operation in early 2008, Rosalynn Tay, Tiger Airways Singapore Managing Director said that they’ve received numerous requests to resume flights to Krabi. “I’m delighted to tell all Tiger customers that we have listened to their requests and are now able to add Krabi to our fast-growing network of exciting destinations…” Read more
AirAsia’s ‘Phuket Air Hub’ ready for takeoff
October 17, 2009 by KDSH
Filed under Local News & Event
Thai AirAsia flight crew pose for a group photo at the fair.
Thai AirAsia has geared up for the establishment of Phuket as a new regional air hub next month with its “AirAsia Loves Phuket Fair”, which ends at Jungceylon today.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Thai AirAsia CEO Tassapon Bijileveld visited the fair yesterday, presenting a model AirAsia aircraft to Phuket Governor Wichai Phraisa-ngop as part of the festivities. November 15 has been designated as the official launch of the ‘Phuket air hub’ project, which is hoped will lift the annual number of tourists to Phuket above the six-million mark for the first time. Read more
Resumption Flight By Tiger Airways
October 3, 2009 by KDSH
Filed under Local News & Event
As the saying goes :-
In every triumph there is a lot of try
By Frank Tiger.
Krabi Discovery celebrates the resumption of flights between Singapore and Krabi by Tiger Airways starting from October 25 2009. Pertaining to this, Tiger Airways is currently the only airline operating direct from Singapore to Krabi. Tiger Airways also flies to Bangkok and Phuket from Changi Airport. You can get your flight tickets now, visit Tiger Airways website for more details. Read more
Phangan ‘just says no’
September 12, 2009 by RDER
Filed under Local News & Event
Long associated with debauchery and wild Full Moon parties, moves are afoot to change Koh Phangan’s image and make it a drugs-free island,
A man puts on a show before a crowd of Full Moon Party revellers on Koh Phangan’s Rin beach. SUPAPONG CHAOLAN
Koh Phangan, long associated with wild Full Moon parties, is undergoing an image change to make the island a family destination. The monthly all-night Full Moon party on the Surat Thani island’s Had Rin beach draws mostly foreign tourists and the event is synonymous with illicit drug use. However, moves are afoot to rebuild the island’s image as a drugs-free haven for holiday makers, with drugs authorities, residents and tourism operators committed to the efforts. The Office of the Narcotics Control Board’s Division 8, responsible for the upper South, has implemented a joint operation with residents and tour businesses to prevent the use of illicit drugs at the beachside party. “The operation is the vehicle of our social order campaign to ensure partygoers stay away from drug abuse at the party,” said Division 8 chief Surasak Klam-in.
Airport needs long-term fix
September 12, 2009 by RDER
Filed under Local News & Event
It is encouraging that the Airports of Thailand Plc has shown willingness to put its money where its mouth is.
The war it is waging on unlicensed taxi drivers, tour guides, touts and other shady operators at Suvarnabhumi Airport was originally expected to last a month. Instead, it is now entering its seventh week after netting over 1,200 illegal drivers and tour guides and exceeding the time frame allotted for similar crackdowns in the past.
Phuket to become AirAsia regional hub
August 24, 2009 by RDER
Filed under Local News & Event
PHUKET CITY: Thai AirAsia will begin direct flight services to Phuket from several new major cities in the region starting by the end of the year, the low-cost carrier has announced. AirAsia will base five aircraft at Phuket International Airport as part of its plan to establish Phuket as an aviation hub, Thai AirAsia CEO Tassapon Bijleveld told a press conference at the Royal Phuket City Hotel last week. The cities include Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bali, Ho Chi Minh City and Chiang Mai. The first of the new flights will begin in November.
Foreigners ‘own 90% of Phuket beach land’
August 24, 2009 by RDER
Filed under Local News & Event
This land is their land.
About 90% of beach land in Phuket is controlled by foreigners through Thai nominees, a leading research body has found. A similar situation exists in other prime tourism destinations in provinces such as Chiang Mai and Rayong. Local officials and legal experts have helped clear the way for foreign investors to take control of the country’s rice farms and property in resort provinces, according to research on foreign land ownership by the Thailand Research Fund.
Taxi cheats, fake tour guides targeted
August 12, 2009 by KDSH
Filed under Local News & Event
Unregistered tour guides and taxis are facing fines of 2,000 baht and/or a year in jail as part of Suvarnabhumi airport’s new get tough policy.
The taxi cheats and illegal tour guides followed when Bangkok International Airport moved from Don Mueang to Suvarnabhumi three years ago. There have been attempts to flush them out but they just keep coming back. Airports of Thailand Plc chairman Piyaphan Champasut said yesterday a subcommittee on transport control at the airport had been set up in May to enforce suppression measures on illegal tour guides and taxis.
Feeling guilty about Samui trip
August 5, 2009 by KDSH
Filed under H1N1 Flu Watch, Local News & Event
Joanne Lee feels silly about H1N1 worries in the wake of the Samui crash.
Joanne Lee Straits Times Online Editor
I WAS on a break last week - in Koh Samui, Thailand. I flew Bangkok Airways direct. So imagine my shock when news broke about two hours ago that a Bangkok Airways flight veered off the runway at Koh Samui’s airport and crashed into a disused building - flight control? firefighting building? - due to bad weather. At the time of this blog entry, one is confirmed dead: The pilot. Several are injured. I’m, however, told by the husband of my friend who runs a resort there that hospitals are calling for blood donors of all types. Hopefully, that’s just a precaution and not an indication that more casualties are to come.
One confirmed dead in Bangkok Airways crash in Samui
August 4, 2009 by admin
Filed under Local News & Event
A Bangkok Airways plane skidded off the runway and crashed at Samui airport on Tuesday afternoon, resulting in at least one confirmed death and seven injured.
A Bangkok Airways plane skidded off the runway and crashed at Samui airport on Tuesday afternoon, resulting in at least one confirmed death and seven injured. Flight PG 266 crashed in severe weather on arriving at the resort island in Surat Thani about 2pm from Krabi province. Witnesses said the ATR72 twin turbo-prop landed in a strong crosswind, veered off the runway and crashed into an old control tower now being used as a parking area for fire engines.
