Thai Airways

  • Thailand NewsThai Airways charges British passenger 80,000 baht for extra luggage
    ThaigerPublished: 16:28, 21 January 2019
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    Thai Airways charges British passenger 80,000 baht for extra luggage

    PHOTO: Thai Airways A British expat has been charged a whopping 79,825.13 baht by Thai Airways for extra luggage on a flight to London from Bangkok. The report was posted by Thai Visa. The incident occurred when the man in question (who is not named) was on the Thai Airways website purchasing 20kg extra luggage each way, and was quoted…

  • Thailand NewsWhere do old Thai Airways 747s go?
    ThaigerPublished: 10:10, 03 December 2018
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    Where do old Thai Airways 747s go?

    A Chai Nat local loved the Thai Airways Boeing 747-400 Jumbo jets so much he bought an old one when it came up for auction. OneMileAtATime.com is reporting that Thai Airways is slowly phasing out its fleet of Boeing 747s with 10 still in active service, and a further 10 stored, or for sale. Given there are hundreds of 747s…

  • Business NewsThai Airways – we need more planes
    ThaigerPublished: 14:17, 27 November 2018
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    Thai Airways – we need more planes

    Thai Airways says it’s has lost 10 percent of its market share over the past three years due to a shortfall in available planes. It’s new business plan states that, if the national carrier wants to restore market share it needs at least 125 aircraft, according to Thai Airways president Sumeth Damrongchaitham. The national airline has submitted its business plan…

  • Business NewsThai Airways doubles up on 2017 losses
    ThaigerPublished: 08:27, 09 November 2018
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    Thai Airways doubles up on 2017 losses

    Thai Airways has doubled up on losses for the past three months (Q3), compared to the same period last year. They’ve reported an operating loss of 3.69 billion baht, up 103% year-on-year. The total revenue was actually up 2.2%, according to a statement from the Thai Airways president, Sumeth Damrongchaitham, but the operating costs were up 1.87 billion baht, compared…

  • OpinionRestoring faith to the national airline
    ThaigerPublished: 14:45, 27 October 2018
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    Restoring faith to the national airline

    On October 8, a Thai Airways 747-400, with only 115 onboard including the crew, skidded off the runway at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. The story and photos reached around the world placing the embattled airline in a position to explain the incident. There were no fatalities and all passengers were safely evacuated and went about their holidays. Since then the silence over…

  • Bangkok News“Customer is King” – Thai Airways union attacks first class pilots
    ThaigerPublished: 08:18, 23 October 2018
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    “Customer is King” – Thai Airways union attacks first class pilots

    The Thai Airways International worker’s union has attacked two pilots for demanding first-class seats from passengers in a standoff drama that delayed an October 11 Zurich-Bangkok flight by two hours even as airline executives vowed to reform the national carrier. Airways executives pledged to nurture a “Customer is King” culture, pledging to use the controversy as an opportunity to revamp…

  • Bangkok NewsFour Thai pilots told not to discuss the first class seat fiasco
    ThaigerPublished: 09:40, 21 October 2018
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    Four Thai pilots told not to discuss the first class seat fiasco

    As if their slice of the local Thai market keeps dwindling amidst increased competition and rising operating costs, and one of their planes skids off a runway at Suvarnabhumi last week, wasn’t bad enough. Now Thai Airways is facing another PR nightmare over bumped passengers on one of its flights. After the Thai Airways president expressed ‘regret’ and said the…

  • Bangkok NewsThai apologises for bumping first class passengers for crew
    ThaigerPublished: 19:06, 19 October 2018
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    Thai apologises for bumping first class passengers for crew

    Thai Airways, still licking their PR wounds from the, as yet, unexplained plane-skidding-off-the-runway incident, have today been forced to apologise to two passengers for bumping them out of their first class seats. The seats were required for two ‘deadheading’ off-duty pilots (flying as a passenger on company business to get to work. eg. You may have to deadhead to New…

  • Bangkok NewsTHAI jumbo skids off Suvarnabhumi runway while landing
    ThaigerPublished: 11:33, 09 October 2018
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    THAI jumbo skids off Suvarnabhumi runway while landing

    A Thai Airways International plane, inbound from Guangzhou, China skidded off a runway while landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport in heavy rain last night. Flight Lieutenant Pratthana Pattanasirim, THAI’s director of security and flight standard division, said no one was injured when THAI Flight TG 679 skidded off the runway. The Boeing 747-400 was carrying 97 passengers and 18 crew. The…

  • Northern Thailand NewsTAT plan to boost tourism to secondary locations, and Thai Airways’ bottomline
    ThaigerPublished: 09:19, 26 September 2018
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    TAT plan to boost tourism to secondary locations, and Thai Airways’ bottomline

    The TAT – Tourism Authority of Thailand – is coming to the rescue of the beleaguered national carrier, Thai Airways. They are going to promote 20 flight routes in 10 provinces for the rest of this year. This is in response to instructions from the Thai government for state-owned enterprises to work together to boost income for the airline which…