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VND 2,600 billion to build Thanh Hoa Airport

In Uncategorized on January 12, 2011 at 7:11 am




VND 2,600 billion to build Thanh Hoa Airport


QĐND – Sunday, January 09, 2011, 22:17 (GMT+7)

The project to build Thanh Hoa Airport was officially announced on January 8th by the Thanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee and the Vietnam Aviation Department.


Under the plan, the project will be implemented in two phases with the first oneto be completed by 2020 and the second one to be completed by 2030 at a cost of 2,600 billion VND in aggregate.


The airport will be erected in Hai Ninh Commune, Tinh Gia District, 30 km south of Thanh Hoa City, and 1.3 km away from National Highway 1A.


The airport is designed to carry 250,000 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo per year after the first phase is completed. The designed capacity for the second phase is 1 million passengers and 20,000 tons of cargo per year. The airport will then be able to serve both regular domestic and international flights. 


Source: VnExpress

Translated by Thu Nguyen

Source: QDND

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Europe airport chaos slammed as snow misery grows

In Uncategorized on December 24, 2010 at 4:30 am

LONDON (AFP) – The EU lashed out at airports Tuesday for the “unacceptable” disruption caused by freezing weather across Europe as fresh snowfall added to the woes of thousands of stranded Christmas travellers.


Britain said it could use troops to end the disruption at London Heathrow, where passengers have been sleeping in terminals throughout four days of chaos, while Frankfurt and Dublin airports faced severe disruption.

A woman keeps warm in a foil blanket, as she waits with other passengers for flight information, outside of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 3. AFP

The cold snap chaos also hit Europe’s rail network with long queues snaking outside the London terminal for the Eurostar train link between Britain, France and Belgium.


In Brussels, the European Commission warned snowbound airports they could face regulation unless they “get serious” and provide airlines with enough support during severe weather in future.


“I am extremely concerned about the level of disruption to travel across Europe caused by severe snow. It is unacceptable and should not happen again,” European transport commissioner Siim Kallas said.


Eurocontrol, the continent’s air traffic supervisory body, said about 3,000 flights had been cancelled across Europe on Tuesday, with similar numbers of cancellations for each of the past four days.


At Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, around two-thirds of flights were cancelled but the air hub’s second runway reopened late Tuesday, prompting hopes an end to the crisis was in sight.


British Prime Minister David Cameron said he had offered to use the military to help Spanish-owned British airports operator BAA, but this offer had been refused.


“The people stuck there are having an incredibly difficult time, especially just a few days from Christmas, and everything must be done to either get them on holiday or get them home safely,” Cameron told a press conference.


Despite the opening of the second runway, BAA chief executive Colin Matthews warned people not to expect the situation to return to normal immediately.


“It is good news to see aircraft taking off and landing from two runways but it’s really important that passengers understand that doesn’t mean the full schedule is going to be restored instantly,” he told Sky News television.


Anger was meanwhile mounting among passengers queuing in the cold outside the terminal buildings at Heathrow.


“I think this hurts the reputation of the whole country. The airport is the first experience you have and this is not a good experience,” Gustaf Malmstrom, 23, told AFP as he tried for a fifth day to get a flight to Stockholm.


Most of Heathrow’s five terminals were only letting in people who were flying on Tuesday morning, mainly on flights to Asia, while others had to queue outside. Workers handed out silver foil blankets and set up two heated tents.


Eurostar said it was running a restricted service and asked all customers booked to travel before Christmas to refund or exchange their tickets free of charge if their journey was not essential.


The queue of passengers stretched for more than a kilometre around the imposing St Pancras station, and Eurostar warned the chaos looked set to continue.


“It’s too early at the moment to say when we will get back to normal,” a spokeswoman told AFP.


In Germany fresh snowfall caused gridlock at the country’s main airport Frankfurt with no flights taking off or landing for around three and a half hours in the morning.


By the time it reopened at around 0800 GMT, 300 of the 1,300 daily flights at Europe’s third-largest airport were cancelled, while others were diverted to Munich.


More than 1,000 travellers spent the night at Frankfurt airport, which laid out camp beds and distributed drinks, sandwiches and soft buttered pretzels.


Many internal flights were cancelled because of the arctic conditions, prompting German train company Deutsche Bahn to announce additional services on major routes across the country to help stranded travellers.


Dublin airport grounded all flights until 0800 GMT on Wednesday after Ireland was hit by more than 15 centimetres (six inches) of snow.


In France authorities allowed the two main airports in Paris, Charles de Gaulle and Orly, to remain open around the clock to clear the backlog of delayed flights.


One hundred civil security personnel had been sent on Monday evening with 300 beds and 2,500 blankets for those still stranded at Charles de Gaulle.

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Source: SGGP

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Vietnam Airlines expands cooperation with Moscow’s airport

In Uncategorized on November 18, 2010 at 1:58 pm

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‘Naked’ airport scanners may be ‘dangerous’

In Uncategorized on November 13, 2010 at 9:53 am

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Phu Quoc Airport to be operational by October 2011

In Uncategorized on November 1, 2010 at 2:14 pm

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Vietnam Airlines uses new terminal at Paris airport

In Uncategorized on October 30, 2010 at 2:12 pm

 

Vietnam Airlines uses new terminal at Paris airport
QĐND – Saturday, October 30, 2010, 20:57 (GMT+7)

 

 

Vietnam Airlines will use a new terminal, Terminal 2E, at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris as of October 31st.

Mr. Pham Viet Thanh, Deputy General Director of Vietnam Airlines, said that Terminal 2E, with the most modern facilities, will help the air carrier to improve its service quality for passengers traveling on flights between Vietnam and France or in transit at the airport before heading to other destinations.

At present, Vietnam Airlines uses the Boeing 777 for eight non-stop flights weekly from Vietnam to Paris.

Until the end of October, Vietnam Airlines’ employees have raised funds of VND1.2 billion to help flood victims in the central provinces.

According to Vietnam Airlines’ leadership, the air carrier transports for free all relief goods donated by organsiations, including the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the People’s Committee of cities and provinces, the Vietnam Red Cross as well as domestic and international charities, to flood victims from HCMC and Hanoi to Vinh, Dong Hoi, Hue and Danang.

Source: LD&NLD

Translated by Duy Minh

 

 

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French protesters briefly block Marseille airport

In Uncategorized on October 21, 2010 at 11:51 am

MARSEILLE, France, Oct 21, 2010 (AFP) – Activists blocked access to Marseille airport Thursday as part of the increasingly bitter protest against the French government’s pension reforms, unions and airport officials said.

Travellers walk with their luggages next to French anti riot policemen as stikers block access to Marseille’s airport on October 21, 2010. AFP

Around 200 demonstrators carrying armbands from the CGT and FSU unions had occupied a key roundabout leading to the airport in the early hours of the morning, but had ended their action by 8:00 am.


The action had caused tailbacks of several kilometres early Thursday, with some travellers having to abandon their cars to reach the terminals, an airport spokesman said.


But at 8:30 am, the traffic was beginning to clear.


Staff from the airport and other industries — such as refineries, steelworks and ports — took part in the action, according to a union spokesman.


The airport spokesman said the blockade had only a partial one, although it had caused large traffic queues.

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Source: SGGP

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French workers take to the streets as airport fears ease

In Uncategorized on October 17, 2010 at 10:26 am

French trade unions staged another massive day of protests Saturday to defend their right to retire at 60, but fears of fuel shortages crippling Paris airports eased as supplies resumed.


Although government estimates of the turnout at the rallies suggested the movement might be losing steam, unions warned that strikes are spreading to more businesses and that a new nationwide protest would be held Tuesday.


Tension has been building since record demonstrations earlier this week with strikes in refineries cutting off fuel supplies to Paris airports and with high school students joining older workers to condemn pension reform moves.


But fears that planes would be grounded at France’s main hub Charles de Gaulle eased as pipelines resumed supplies.


“The fuel supply of the Paris airports resumed Saturday afternoon, which keeps the threat of a shortage away from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle,” said the head of the French civil aviation authority, Patrick Gandil.

People demonstrate in Paris as part of a national day of mass rallies against pension reform.

Nantes in western France became the first airport in the country to cancel flights due to shortages, Gandil said, although a Nantes airport official said there had been no cancellations due to fuel shortages.


According to the interior ministry, 825,000 people took to the streets of towns and cities across the country on Saturday, the lowest official total since protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan began in September.


Unions estimated the turnout at “around three million”, arguing that the numbers were around the same as a previous protest on a Saturday two weeks earlier, and labour leaders insisted the campaign would go on.


“The movement is taking root and growing in terms of the number of companies hit by various forms of strike as in the number of employees taking part in the action,” the powerful CGT union said in a statement.


Sarkozy’s works and pensions minister, Eric Woerth, insisted however that there had been a “significant drop-off” in the number of people taking part from the 1.2 million the government said had marched on Tuesday.


“There were, nevertheless, still lot of protesters. That underlines the government’s duty to explain this reform better,” he said.


Labour wants to force Sarkozy into backing down on his plan to raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62, which is in the final days of its journey through a parliament in which the right wing leader enjoys a comfortable majority.


“We’re prepared to demonstrate under the snow if it takes that long,” Airbus worker Stephane Thibault, 37, told AFP at a demonstration in the southern city of Toulouse.


“We’re mobilised, everyone seems motivated. With right-wing governments, we know you have to resist,” he said.


Around 30 people were arrested in central Paris after a group of several hundred anarchists set rubbish bins on fire and threw smoke grenades, but they were prevented from interrupting the main march.


Strikes have shut down 10 out of France’s 12 oil refineries, despite riot police being dispatched to fuel depots to protect deliveries amid panic buying.


The government has given oil companies permission to tap into their own emergency stocks, but has resisted calls to use government-controlled strategic reserves.


Finance Minister Christine Lagarde told RTL television that only 230 service stations out of 3,000 had run dry of fuel. “We have several weeks of fuel stocks,” she insisted.

Nevertheless, reporters found several filling stations shutting down.

“We don’t have any left and we don’t know when the next delivery will come,” said a petrol station worker at a hypermarket outside Paris who gave his name as Jean-Claude. “Petrol reserves are also extremely low.”

Strikes against pension and port reforms at oil depots in the south of the country since September 27 have left 63 oil, gas and chemical tankers waiting off the Mediterranean coast on Saturday, Marseille port authorities said.

French truck drivers are also set to join the protests. “There’s impatience, the guys are saying ‘let’s go’,” said transport union chief Maxime Dumont.

Railway operator SNCF said that on average two out of three high-speed TGV trains were running in and out of Paris, although only one TGV in four outside the capital. The Paris metro was running normally.

Source: SGGP

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More chartered flights to touch down at Danang Airport

In Uncategorized on October 14, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Danang Airport on Vietnam’s central coast, which sits within 2-hour flights of both Hong Kong and Singapore, will receive more chartered flights from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea in the next few months, a local tour operator said.


The central city is currently greeting air travelers using Shanghai Airlines’ twice-a-week charter service from the carrier’s hub, Shanghai.


Danang already accommodates international flights from Singapore, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Taipei, in addition to regular connecting services from both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Foreign carriers seen there include Silk Air, China Southern, and TransAsia Airlines.

This file photo shows Vietnam Airlines aircraft at Danang Airport (Photo: Tuong Thuy)

On November 11, Danang Airport will see the first chartered flight from Hong Kong, according to Danang-based tour operator Vitours, a key local partner that caters the forthcoming chartered flights. The deal for Hong Kong will last three months, the source said.


Frequent chartered flights from Taiwan to Danang will start on December 26 and also run for three months, Vitours said.


Other chartered flights will take travelers from South Korea’s Seoul to the Vietnamese city, starting on the first day of 2011, according to the source.


In Danang, the golf and airline offerings appear to have come of age simultaneously. The Vietnam Golf Coast, a new partnership of golf and beach resorts in the sunny city, was established in mid-August.


The founding members are Montgomerie Links Vietnam, Danang Golf Club, The Nam Hai, Life Resort Danang, and Golfasian Vietnam.


Montgomerie Links Vietnam was designed by sitting European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie and opened in August 2009. It was recently ranked 7th on the list of top courses in all of Southeast Asia. 


Meanwhile, Danang Golf Club was crafted by legend Greg Norman and opened in May 2010.


The Nam Hai is a luxurious and all-villa resort located on the coastal road linking Danang with Hoi An Ancient Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site.


Opened in March 2010, the five-star hotel Life Resort Danang is set on five hectares fronting beautiful Bac My An Beach.


Golfasian Vietnam is a leading golf tour operator in Southeast Asia. It has been named the official tour operator of the Vietnam Golf Coast.

Source: SGGP

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Airport strike disrupts flights in France

In Uncategorized on July 21, 2010 at 3:22 pm

 A strike by air traffic controllers disrupted travel across France on Wednesday with one in five flights from Paris’s main international airport Charles de Gaulle cancelled, authorities said.


Half of all flights were also cancelled from Paris’s second biggest airport, Orly, which serves domestic and some international destinations, air transport authority DGAC said.

File photo shows passengers walking through Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport as a plane takes off

It said disruption was expected at most French airports due to the strike, which comes as many people are leaving for their summer holidays.


Unions called the strike to protest against plans to merge to French air traffic control into a European-wide system.


The action was scheduled to run until Thursday morning, they said

Source: SGGP