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While business aviation levels in the U.S. have rebounded to near-normal levels in the wake of the Covid pandemic, that traffic still isn’t going very far afield, amid continued international restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the virus, even as vaccination programs slowly ramp up around the world. As evidence, according to JetNet, large-cabin jet activity was down 36 percent between 2020 and 2019, while in the second quarter of 2020 those levels plunged by 65 percent.
“It is disappointing to see the Covid relapse in Europe as 2021 has progressed, which has dampened the positive expectations that we had about the recovery,” explained John-Angus Smith, Signature Flight Support’s managing director for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). “We continue to see little traffic from outside of EMEA which is reflected in more resilience from the light and mid-size charter aircraft traffic, with our expectation that heavy jet traffic will retu
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Suvarnabhumi Airport gained an unwanted notoriety after it opened, 15 years ago this year, at full capacity. That necessitated the reintroduction of Don Mueang airport into the Bangkok system and Don Mueang is still there, handling much of the budget airline traffic that really should be at the newer airport.
At long last, various schemes have come together that by 2024 will collectively permit Suvarnabhumi to offer considerably expanded capacity by way of additional terminal space and a new runway, and to challenge the likes of Singapore’s Changi Airport as a regional hub.
But there remains work to be done on the traffic mix and charging procedures.
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BANGKOK, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) Thailand confirmed 144 new cases of COVID-19, mostly local infections, on Monday, official data showed.
Of the new cases, 115 were local infections, 14 others were Myanmar migrant workers and 15 were under quarantine upon arrival from abroad, according to the Center for the COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).
Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul was under house quarantine for 14 days after a Sunday meeting with the Samut Sakhon provincial governor, who was confirmed as being infected on Monday.
Several other senior public health officials, who also attended the meeting in Samut Sakhon, where the latest outbreak was first detected, are considered being at risk of infection and will be tested for COVID-19 soon.