Centara Hotels & Resorts, Thailand’s largest operator of hotels will open its five-star luxurious Centara Grand Hotel Vientiane, its first hotel in Laos, in 2017. The property will be located in the downtown district of Vientiane, the Laotian capital. With this addition, Centara will have a total of 20 Grand hotels which are located in the Maldives, Vietnam, Bali, Mauritius, Shanghai, Addis-Abba, Doha and Thailand.

SriLankan Airlines, due to join the oneworld alliance on 1st May, has signed up for OnAir’s in flight GSM and Wi-Fi services that will be installed on its six new A330-200 aircraft. By autumn, people flying from Colombo will be able to email, tweet, send text messages, make calls, and surf the internet during the flight. This global connection will be powered by Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband satellite network, the only service designed for both mobility and consistent global coverage.

SilkAir will operate services to Hangzhou four times a week from 27th June 2014. This will be the airline’s eighth destination in China after Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Xiamen. The new services will be operated using the airline’s Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft featuring both Business and Economy Class.

Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd has announced that Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s new low cost terminal (KLIA2) will open as scheduled on May 2 and that cracks observed on the runway previously have been ratified. It also guaranteed that the safety of the runway, apron, taxiway and others have all been certified by the Department of Civil Aviation and a final inspection will be made before the opening of klia2