The first paying passengers arrived at Bangkok’s new international airport yesterday, on test flights that the government hopes will ease concerns about its planned opening in two months.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was among the 375 passengers on the first flight to land at Suvarnabhumi Airport, after a symbolic 15-minute journey from Bangkok’s existing Don [...]

Although heavy equipment has been working for weeks at the site of West Star Aviation’s proposed new hangar, project officials gathered Friday to observe a ceremonial groundbreaking for the project.
By next March, if the project goes according to the timetable, the site just east of the National Weather Service office at Walker Field Airport will [...]

The airlines are struggling to make a dollar, but did anyone tell you that the business aviation industry is booming? Correct, the business aviation world is so busy its next to impossible to buy a new jet without having to wait 2.5 to 3 yrs on a waiting list before taking delivery. Many sources expect [...]

Gov. Sonny Perdue believes that general aviation airports can play a key role in economic development and wants to have an airport with a 5,000-foot runway within 30 minutes of every Georgian.
“Air transportation is the preferred choice for business and industry decision makers in the 21st century economy,” Perdue said. “Our economic development efforts will [...]

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has begun an inquiry into an incident in which an Air India aircraft was cleared to take off when another plane was on the runway at the international airport here.
“We have already begun investigations. We are now examining the tapes of conversation between Air Traffic Control (ATC) and [...]