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THAI Doubles London Frankfurt Frequencies Postpones Rome Suspension To Feb 2016

2021-06-01T07:28:03Z

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Effective from 25 October 2015, THAI will offer more choice for those wanting to book flights from Bangkok to London and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] vice versa, with the current schedule of seven flights per week (once daily) being doubled to 14 flights per week (twice daily) operated by Airbus 380-800 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Flights from Bangkok to Frankfurt and vice versa will also be doubled, from the current seven weekly flights (once daily) to 14 weekly flights (twice daily) and also using Airbus 380-800 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Effective from the same date, THAI will temporarily suspend its four times a week Bangkok-Seoul-Los Angeles service, and reduce frequency on its Bangkok-Kolkata service from ten flights a week to one flight daily. An earlier decision to suspend the four times a week Bangkok-Rome service with the activation of the international winter schedule 2015/2016 has been postponed and the carrier's flights between the Thai and Italian capital cities will now be suspended in February 2016. THAI president Charamporn Jotikasthira said the company's board of directors agreed to postpone the suspension to 1 February 2016 in order to meet travel demand during the high season in Rome. THAI will work with the Tourism Authority of Thailand to jointly promote roundtrip travel on the route, which the airline will serve on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday using Boeing 747-400 aircraft. Thai Airways says its passengers will continue to be served through its planned operation from Bangkok to Munich/Frankfurt/Brussels and partner airline connections to Rome. In the return direction from Zurich/Frankfurt/Munich to Bangkok, THAI will operate Airbus 380-300 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft with convenient connection to the Thai capital. The winter schedule will see THAI transfer selected routes to THAI Smile, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] which will operate them with smaller aircraft and aim for better efficiency and cost effectiveness. THAI Smile will operate the Bangkok-Hyderabad, Bangkok-Luang Prabang and Bangkok-Changsha routes once it receives permission from the respective aviation authorities to operate to these destinations. Thai Airways has described the light adjustments in its winter schedule 2015/2016 as part of the company's transformation plan aimed at reducing losses by reducing operating costs, improving the sales structure and generating revenue. It currently has 50 routes which are operating at a loss and/or have less potential in profitability. It said the [http://www.fin24.com/Search/News?queryString=suspension suspension] of routes was considered using various criteria such as operating results over the past 10 years, market environment and competition, potential for development and connecting passenger numbers. The routes which have been suspended have been done so on a temporary basis, with the company to review these again after a period of time under the transformation plan. Thai Airways said once its operations had strengthened and it was more confident of competing well to and from the respective destinations, it would resume the suspended flights. THAI continues to serve its European destinations, issuing a statement that it operates under the high safety standards of the European Aviation Safety Agency. The statement followed a red flag given Thailand by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in June 2015 over significant safety concerns within the country's aviation sector. Charamporn Jotikasthira, president of Thai Airways International, said the European Commission's EU Air Safety List updated on 25 June 2015 did not include the Thai airline and as such it would continue to operate regularly scheduled flights to Europe. THAI operates flights from Bangkok to Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Brussels, Munich, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] Zurich, Rome and Milan on either a direct or one stop basis. In the United Kingdom, it flies direct to London Heathrow and recently introduced Airbus A380 equipment on to this daily route. Thai Airways International Public Company Limited is the national flag carrier airline of Thailand, operating out of Suvarnabhumi Airport, offering flight service to 35 countries. THAI is a founding member of the Star Alliance.

China Sales Seen Picking Up After Coronavirus Blow - Volkswagen

2021-06-01T02:44:03Z

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FRANKFURT, March 31 (Reuters) - Volkswagen [https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=expects expects] vehicle sales in China, the world's largest car market, to quadruple in March, it said, pointing to a recovery following the coronavirus pandemic. "We are cautiously optimistic that the worst effects of the crisis will be behind us in two to three months," said [http://www.becomegorgeous.com/topics/Stephan Stephan] Woellenstein, head of Volkswagen's China business. Demand was still limited, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] Volkswagen said, adding it was prepared to ramp up capacity at its plants in the country, 22 of which had resumed production. Two vehicle plants in Changsha and Urumqi are still closed, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] the carmaker said. Woellenstein said he expected vehicle sales of up to 1 million in March, up from 250,000 in February. "There are more and more signs that business is recovering. By the middle of the year, we could be back to last year's planning. Hope is returning on the Chinese market," Woellenstein said. In 2020, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] Volkswagen expects a decline of 3-15% in the Chinese market but confirmed plans to invest more than 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) this year there, with about 40% of that sum earmarked for electric driving. "We assume that the recovery will continue and that we will be operating in a normal market environment again in 2021," Woellenstein said. Volkswagen plans to sell 1.5 million electric cars in China per year from 2025. ($1 = 0.9093 euros) (Reporting by Christoph Steitz; Editing by Mark Potter)

New Thai Airways International President Aims To Turn National Carrier Around

2021-06-01T02:25:04Z

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The board of Thailand's national carrier in mid February approved the sale of numerous planes from the current Thai Airways International fleet. Models approved for sale include the Airbus A330-300, the Airbus A340-600, and the Boeing 747-400. In June 2015, new THAI president Charamporn Jotikasthira will propose to the board the sale of additional Boeing 747-400s. With the board's previous resolution to sell aircraft, 2015 will see THAI making many changes aimed at turning the airline around. This sell-off will cut THAI's fleet and also affect its subsidiary THAI Smile as well. This would mean the average age of its fleet, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] Charamporn said, would then be 7.8 years which is considered as new. He said the shorter usage time would cut the aviation management costs of THAI by six percent. [http://www.blogher.com/search/apachesolr_search/Charamporn Charamporn] was quoted as saying, "The operating result for this year does not depend on operations but on asset sales. It depends on whether these asset sales turn out as expected. The sale should go well now because of the decline in the price of oil." THAI has also made changes to a number of routes in its global network. Its flights from Bangkok to Johannesburg were stopped on January 15 and flights from Bangkok to Moscow ended on March 28. Flights from Bangkok to Madrid will be terminated on September 5. Some other routes have had the frequency adjusted. Charamporn said the terminated routes had been loss-ridden for a long time and had no prospects for recovery. The Thai Airways International president indicated that operations on Asian routes had bright prospects, but those on European routes were shrinking. He said the carrier planned to use Airbus A380 aircraft on direct flights from Bangkok to London, Paris and Frankfurt. From its Bangkok, Thailand base, THAI currently flies to many major destinations around the world. This includes locations in the Asia Pacific region such as Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in Australia, Auckland in New Zealand, Jakarta and Denpasar (Bali) in Indonesia, Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka and [http://www.healthynewage.com/?s=Sapporo Sapporo] in Japan, Seoul and Busan in Korea, Taipei in Taiwan, Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi in Vietnam, Manila in the Philippines, Singapore, Yangon in Myanmar, Vientiane and Luang Prabang in Laos, Kathmandu in Nepal, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Calcutta, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gaya and Varanasi in India, and Beijing, Chongqing, Changsha, Kunming, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Cheng-[https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn], Xiamen and Hong Kong in China. European destinations include Brussels in Belgium, Copenhagen in Denmark, Paris in France, Frankfurt and Munich in Germany, Stockholm in Sweden, Zurich in Switzerland and London (Heathrow) in England. In North America THAI flies to Los Angeles and in the Middle East to Muscat in Oman and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The carrier's domestic network links 10 destinations to its Bangkok home base. These are Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, Khon Kaen, Ubon Ratchathani and Udon Thani in the Northeast, and Hat Yai, Phuket, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] Surat Thani, Samui and Krabi in the South.

Checkpoints Exclusion Zones And Quarantine: Reporting The Coronavirus

2021-05-31T23:37:47Z

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By David Stanway SHANGHAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A transparent plastic bag dropped at the door of my Shanghai apartment contained a handful of surgical masks along with a "friendly notice" informing me that I was under home quarantine for two weeks. The reason? I had briefly been inside the widening exclusion zone in China's Hubei province, including a stop on the train as it passed through Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of the new coronavirus. "People who returned from or passed through Hubei to enter the (Shanghai) municipality must actively submit to temperature monitoring ... and consciously implement home quarantine or submit to centralised supervision for 14 days," it said. The notice came from the Xujiahui District Novel Coronavirus-transmitted Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Working Group. I need to report my temperature by phone to a member of the working group twice a day until Feb. 10. It remains normal. As a nurse standing at my door explained, the best way was to place a glass thermometer under the armpit for five minutes. As she spoke, a neighbour looked on anxiously. A day earlier, there had been a knock on the door from two men from the local residents' committee wearing what looked like clumsy military-issue gas masks. When I opened the door, they took a wary step back and asked when I had returned to Shanghai from Wuhan,the source of the coronavirus that has killed more than 100 people and infected over 4,500 in China as of Monday. One of the men informed me that I should know there is an "epidemic" going on in Hubei and I should be subject to special control measures, including two weeks of isolation at home. At a Shanghai government press conference on Sunday, a health official said the city was now inspecting 95 suspected cases. I wondered if I was included in that statistic. LOCK-DOWN As the number of reported coronavirus cases started to multiply last week, a Reuters multi-media team travelled to the city of Xianning, just south of Wuhan, on Friday to report on the effectiveness of Wuhan's day-old transportation lock-down. My journey included a 10-minute stop at an eerily empty platform of Wuhan train station. I did not see anyone board there. From Xianning, we reached Wuhan's southern border and spoke with the auxiliary police staffing the checkpoint. It became clear that it was relatively easy to get into Wuhan, as long as we didn't have wild animals or a fever, but harder to get out. Xianning itself was not in lockdown when we arrived, but within hours its major roads and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] train station were closed and we left in a hired car, escorted by police, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] as soon as possible. Police said that if we headed south immediately, we would be able to beat the [http://www.usatoday.com/search/lockdown/ lockdown]. On the eve of the Lunar New Year, we sped south along mostly empty highways towards Changsha, watching bursts of fireworks on the horizon. At one packed service station, families trying to get out of Hubei ate instant noodles for their new year's dinner. It was a far cry from the traditional reunion feast. We arrived in Changsha early the next morning and I was back in Shanghai the same afternoon. (Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Mike Collett-White)

German Bakery Helps Deaf Chinese Earn Their Daily Bread

2021-05-31T17:13:21Z

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Bach's Bakery in the central Chinese city of Changsha employs mainly hearing-impaired staff The oven's warm glow and aroma of fresh bread signal the morning rush at Bach's Bakery in the central Chinese city of Changsha, but although the baking staff chatter excitedly, you could hear a pin drop. Bach's employs mainly hearing-impaired staff, whose banter over trays of [http://search.ft.com/search?queryText=pumpkin pumpkin] bread, Danish sausage rolls and apple turnovers is done entirely in sign language. The operation, owned and operated by German national Uwe Brutzer, provides work opportunities that are often hard to come by for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] his employees. Despite growing awareness of disabled needs, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour viên gia giới] life remains a challenge for China's hearing impaired, officially estimated at between 20 and 30 million. Hearing-impaired employees use sign language while working at the bakery run by Uwe Brutzer in Changsha in central China It's difficult to "make good money and get an education," said Wan Ting, a 28-year-old employed by Bach's since 2017 after a previous unsuccessful stint in advertising design. "It's hard (to find work) in other places. You need to know someone to be able to find good work. If not, you have few options," added Wan, hearing-impaired since birth and speaking via sign language translated by Brutzer. With their communication challenges, the hearing-impaired are often steered into work requiring skilful use of the hands, said the 50-year-old Brutzer, making the bakery a nice fit. The bakery has done good business despite the coronavirus pandemic, going viral this summer thanks to a spate of feel-good Chinese media coverage Bach and his wife Dorothee first came to Changsha in 2002 with a German charity to help hearing-impaired children. He took over the bakery in 2011 and has since trained around 20 bakers. Most go on to work in other bakeries, restaurants or hotels. But other aspects of running a business -- hiring, working with suppliers, talking to customers -- pose major challenges to opening their own bake shops. "Two of our very experienced bakers (have tried), but they both closed their shops later again. It was too much hassle for them," he said. German national Uwe Brutzer (back L) took over the bakery in 2011 and has since trained around 20 bakers The bright and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] compact bakery has had a devoted local clientele for years in the city -- known more for its peppery Hunan cuisine -- despite being hidden in a non-descript residential side alley. Bakery margins are thin, however, and Bach's has struggled, said Brutzer. But things are looking up, despite China's traumatic coronavirus lockdowns earlier this year. Moving to no-touch take-out service during the epidemic kept volumes humming, and Bach's went viral this summer thanks to a spate of feel-good Chinese media coverage. Today, a loud creak from the front door announces a new customer every few minutes and business is up five-fold from last year, said Brutzer. The challenge now is meeting demand. "But that will slow down, I hope, to a good level where we can pay better salaries and people will be happier," he said.

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2021-05-31T17:13:14Z

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