Prahok @ December 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Reuters reports that Orient Thai Airlines plans to order 20 new aircraft, eight Boeing 787-9s and 12 Boeing 737-900s, at a cost of US$2.5b in April 2008, chairman Udom Tantiprasongchai said Wednesday. Delivery of the first plane was expected in 2011 and the new aircraft would replace ageing ones and expand its fleet to 30-35 […]
Prahok @ December 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Kantipur reports that Orient Thai Airlines is beginning thrice-weekly flights between Bangkok and Kathmandu from December 18. “The flights will be operated with 170-seater MD-82 aircraft,” said Ajay Simha of Orient Asia International, the general sales agent of the airline in Nepal.
Prahok @ March 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Bangkok Post reports that Don Muang will be officially reopening this weekend. Initially both Nok Air and Orient Thai Airlines will be using it for all their flights while THAI will be using it for their non-connecting domestic flights only. On all new ticketing the code for Don Muang will be changed from BKK […]
Prahok @ October 9, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Andaman News reports that the TAT is optimistic of a class high season in Krabi, Thailand this year, with budget airline One-Two-Go starting daily direct flights from Bangkok to Krabi. Currently THAI and Air Asia are flying to Krabi, while Tiger provides direct flights from Singapore several times per week, increasing after 29 October. Meanwhile […]
Prahok @ July 19, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The Bangkok Post reports that One-Two-Go has vowed to take on AirAsia with an aggressive regional expansion. Plans include One-Two-Go flying from Bangkok to Phnom Penh, Rangoon, Macau, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Indonesia in the next one or two years.
Prahok @ July 17, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Thaisnews reports that low-cost airlines operators have indicated they are facing a different airport check-in system at Suvarnabhumi Airport which could cost them B700m more to adjust to and fear passengers will have to bear the brunt of the cost. The pres of One-Two-Go and Orient Thai Airlines Company Plc, Udom Tantiprasongchai, disclosed that the […]
Prahok @ January 13, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Thai Day has a good round-up of the Thai LCC market at the moment, with the surprising fact that Nok Air is the best performing of the Thai LCCs. Always our personal favourite, it seems it isn’t just us that enjoy flying the carrier with the happiest looking planes in the sky.
Prahok @ October 28, 2005 # No Comment Yet
The Bangkok Post has an interesting piece Friday on Thailand’s “open-sky policy”, which at least on the domestic horizon, does not seem to be as open as authorities claim. Both PB Air and One-Two-Go by Orient Thai are complaining that Nok Air (which is 39% owned by government-controlled THAI) is receiving preferential treatment as THAI […]