Effective immediately, air carriers and general aviation operators have a new air/ground voice radio service for communications while operating in the South East Asia region as ARINC declares its new High Frequency (HF) Voice radio station operational at Hat Yai, Thailand.  The new HF Voice station was built in cooperation with Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (AEROTHAI), ARINC's partner in providing the GLOBALink portfolio of aeronautical communications services. The new station delivers robust coverage to the South East Asia flight region, including the western Pacific, China, India, and all of South East Asia. The new station fills a major communications gap and expands ARINC's Air/Ground International voice radio coverage from the U.S., the Americas, and the Atlantic Ocean across the Pacific Ocean, to include South East and Eastern Asia.
ARINC’s new Thailand HF Voice station is managed by ARINC radio operators who are on duty around the clock to receive, send, and relay air/ground operational messages. Voice services typically include the delivery of messages by telephone or fax, phone patches between aircraft and ground facilities, and ground-originated calls to aircraft in specific coverage areas. ARINC’s operators can also transcribe voice messages into text and send them via ARINC’s data network to any network address, aviation business, teletype subscriber, or the International Civil Aviation Organization. Air/Ground International HF voice service complements ARINC’s GLOBALink HF and VHF data link services in the region. Aircraft operators may initiate use of Air/Ground International at any time.