SINGAPORE Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways, and at least three other carriers cancelled Bangkok flights after anti-government protesters stormed the main terminal of the city's airport, closing it down, Bloomberg news reported on Wednesday.
Singapore Airlines is canceling the services 'due to the deteriorating security situation, and a lack of operational service staff at Suvarnabhumi airport,' it said in an e-mailed statement on Wednesday.
Budget airlines Tiger Airways and AirAsia have also cancelled all flights to and from Bangkok, they said on their websites. AirAsia announced that all affected guests will automatically receive a refund.
Bangkok Airways announced that it cancelled 24 domestic and international flights to and from the Suvarnabhumi International Airport Wednesday.
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways have also cancelled flights to Bangkok. It said that its service to Bangkok and Mumbai would bypass Thailand and fly straight to the Indian city.
Philippine Airlines cancelled its morning flight to Bangkok and said that a later flight may be cancelled as well.
Japan Airlines, Asia's largest airline by sales, cancelled two flights between Tokyo and Bangkok, it said on its website. Cathay, Hong Kong's largest airline, cut one flight from Bangkok and delayed two services this morning, spokesman Carolyn Leung told Bloomberg news.
China Airlines, Taiwan's largest carrier cancelled two flights to Bangkok this morning, StraitsTimes.com reported.
Qantas Airways's flights to Bangkok are operating as normal, a spokesman said. Korean Air Lines, South Korea's biggest carrier, is flying as usual to the airport for now as the government of Thailand hasn't banned flights of overseas carriers, the Seoul-based airline said in an e-mailed statement today.
All Nippon Airways, Japan's second-largest international carrier, will delay one flight today as the airport will be closed until this afternoon, spokesman Yoshifumi Miyake said in a telephone interview today.
(Additional reporting from The Nation, AFP, Reuters and Straitstimes.com)
