PHUKET: Regular four-times weekly flights between Phuket and Hat Yai, largest city in Thailand's South are to resume from October 2, Phuketwan learned today.
The Bangkok Air flights will be on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with precise times yet to be set, according to airline officials.
Resumption of flights is expected to be welcomed by tourists, visa runners and many employees at resorts on Phuket and around the Andaman who call Thailand's southern provinces home.
Hat Yai in Songkhla is Thailand's main southern city. Residents from Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat are regular visitors.
Discount fares are anticipated once the details are announced to the media sometime soon.
Expansion work at Phuket International Airport includes a new overseas terminal that is expected to open next year as annual capacity increases to 12.5 million arrivals and departures.
In other tourism-related aviation news, Air India will begin flights this year between the Andaman and Nicobar islands capital Port Blair and Phuket.
The Thai holiday island gets more tourists than all of India put together, according to Andaman and Nicobar officials.
''If we get even a fraction of that traffic to our beaches, it would transform the islands,'' said the islands' chief secretary Anand Prakash.
The islands are Indian territory. China's expansion into the Indian Ocean is seen as one reason why Indian officials are becoming keener to increase flights and attract tourists.
The Bangkok Air flights will be on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with precise times yet to be set, according to airline officials.
Resumption of flights is expected to be welcomed by tourists, visa runners and many employees at resorts on Phuket and around the Andaman who call Thailand's southern provinces home.
Hat Yai in Songkhla is Thailand's main southern city. Residents from Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat are regular visitors.
Discount fares are anticipated once the details are announced to the media sometime soon.
Expansion work at Phuket International Airport includes a new overseas terminal that is expected to open next year as annual capacity increases to 12.5 million arrivals and departures.
In other tourism-related aviation news, Air India will begin flights this year between the Andaman and Nicobar islands capital Port Blair and Phuket.
The Thai holiday island gets more tourists than all of India put together, according to Andaman and Nicobar officials.
''If we get even a fraction of that traffic to our beaches, it would transform the islands,'' said the islands' chief secretary Anand Prakash.
The islands are Indian territory. China's expansion into the Indian Ocean is seen as one reason why Indian officials are becoming keener to increase flights and attract tourists.
Wow this is pleasant news indeed.
Thank you PW for something newsworthy on the positive side.
Posted by Robin on July 26, 2015 12:16
Editor Comment:
Everything we report is positive, Robin. What we report simply needs to be acted upon.