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'Ultimate experience' arrives
Business, Published on 20/03/2024
» Real estate and retail developer Siam Piwat has teamed up with 16 airlines to draw more foreign arrivals, particularly high-quality visitors, as part of its strategy to reinforce its position as the No.1 global destination developer.
Analysing the push for sustainable jet fuel
Business, Yuthana Praiwan and Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 03/05/2023
» Biodiesel, a mix of diesel and palm oil-derived methyl ester used by cars with internal combustion engines, as well as used cooking oil that previously was deemed useless are now vying to change the aviation industry. The two oils can be processed to make sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, a biofuel for aircraft.
Airline group pushes sustainability
Business, Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 13/12/2022
» The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for more commitments to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from producers and airlines next year to help them hit net-zero targets, although Thai Airways has not yet agreed to purchase the fuel.
Airlines pushing for single pilot flights
Business, Bloomberg, Published on 22/11/2022
» Airlines and regulators are pushing to have just one pilot in the cockpit of passenger jets instead of two. It would lower costs and ease pressure from crew shortages, but placing such responsibility on a single person at the controls is unsettling for some.
TAT looks to short-haul markets
Business, Dusida Worrachaddejchai, Published on 03/03/2022
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) aims to attract at least 1.5 million tourists from short-haul destinations to compensate for the Chinese market by teaming up with airlines to spur demand.
Phuket reopening still in the works
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 26/04/2021
» Despite daily infections reaching a record high of 2,070 cases in Thailand last week, the country is determined to reopen to international tourists starting with Phuket on July 1.
Australia to fund half-price airfares in new bid to promote tourism
Business, Bloomberg, Published on 12/03/2021
» Australia's government will subsidise 800,000 half-price airfares as part of a A$1.2 billion (45 billion baht) package to prop up the nation's ailing tourism industry.
Planes, trains, automobiles, feet …
Business, Vijay Verghese, Published on 20/01/2021
» A steady drive south from New York on the I-95 with minimal breaks will get you to balmy Miami in about 18 hours. It's a long haul on arrow-straight freeways negotiating traffic and, perhaps, a spot of enlivening road rage. But some might ask, "Aren't there easier places to get to with a coconut tree and a pink bikini?" Like Singapore.
ANA sees record loss, plans cost cuts
Business, Reuters, Published on 28/10/2020
» TOKYO: All Nippon Airways said on Tuesday that it would retire more than a tenth of its mostly Boeing fleet and delay two aircraft orders to help rein in costs and survive a collapse in air travel caused by coronavirus travel restrictions.
Fed changes, Abe exit keep investors guessing
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee and Darana Chudasri, Published on 29/08/2020
» Recap: Global bourses struggled yesterday after the US Federal Reserve introduced the new policy framework, with Japanese equities shedding gains following the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.