THAI cancels Bangkok-Osaka flights

Kansai International Airport is partly inundated following a powerful typhoon in Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday. A powerful typhoon blew through western Japan on Tuesday, causing heavy rain to flood the region's main offshore international airport and high winds to blow a tanker into a connecting bridge, disrupting land and air travel. (Kentaro Ikushima/Mainichi Newspaper via AP)

Thai Airways International (THAI) has cancelled flights between Bangkok and Osaka after Kansai airport was closed.

The national airline stated that it cancelled round-trip flights on the route on Tuesday and Wednesday due to the damage at Kansai airport caused by typhoon Jebi.

Pratana Patanasri, THAI director for safety and aviation standard, said the runways of the airport were flooded and caused the cancellation of all fights there.

As the airport's reopening had not been set, he said, THAI had to cancel the two following flights on the Bangkok-Osaka route:

• TG622 set to leave Suvarnabhumi airport at 11.30pm on Tuesday
• TG623 set to leave Kansai airport at 11.45am on Wednesday (local time).

THAI will resume its flight services on the route when Kansai airport reopens, Mr Pratana said. Normally THAI operates two daily flights on the route.