New fights: Bangkok to Brussels and Mumbai
New fights: Bangkok to Brussels and Mumbai
Extra Singapore-Malaysia flights for Lunar New Year
Thai Airways will be restarting its route between Bangkok and Brussels. The service has been suspended since 2020 when travel was shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new daily service will take off on December 1st with flight number TG934 departing from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport at 00:30 and arriving in Brussels at 07:05. The return leg, flight number TG935, will leave Brussels at 13:10 and touch down again in Bangkok at 06:10 the following morning. The flight will deploy a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and the duration will be about twelve hours.
Vietjet will be launching direct services between Bangkok and Mumbai from December 23rd. The flights will operate daily utilising an Airbus A320.
Flight number VZ760 will depart Bangkok’s Subarnabhumi Airport at 20:45 and arrive at in Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at 23:50. The return journey, flight number VZ761, will take off from Mumbai at 00:45 and arrive back in Bangkok at 06:20. The flight time is approximately four and a half hours.
Extra flights for Lunar New Year
AirAsia is adding some extra flights between Singapore and some of the more far-flung parts of Malaysian Borneo to enable families to reunite for the Lunar New Year holidays. Between January 24th and February 4th, there will be three extra flights to Sibu and Miri in Sarawak and four extra flights to Tawau in Sabah.
On Sunday, Monday, and Friday flight number AK1411 will depart from Sibu at 13:10 and arrive in Singapore at 14:40. It returns as flight number AK1410 leaving Singapore at 15:25 and arriving back in Sibu at 17:05.
The Miri flight will operate on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday with AK1757 leaving Miri at 10:40 and landing in Singapore at 12:40. The return trip, AK1858, will leave Singapore at 13:15 and arrive in Miri at 15:15.
Services for Tawau operate on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. AK1761 will depart for Singapore at 10:20 and arrive at 13:10. The return leg, flight number AK1762 will leave Singapore at 13:45 and land back in Tawau at 16:35.
There will also be extra overnight flights between Singapore and Kuching from February 2nd to the 5th. On the Sunday, AK9673 will leave Kuching for the 90-minute to Singapore at 22:40. It leaves Singapore as AK9674 at 00:50 the following Monday morning.
On Monday and Tuesday AK9512 will take off from Kuching at 23:10 landing in Singapore at 00:40. On Tuesday and Wednesday it leaves Singapore, as flight number AK9513, at 01:20 arriving back in Kuching at 02:45.
Picture: Marine Lines, South Mumbai by Vikramjit Kakati via Wikimedia Commons
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