THAI Airways rejigs Australian frequencies
Originally published on www.businesstraveller.asia 07/06/2010 - Filed under: News »
Thai Airways International (THAI) is to cut back on its key Bangkok-Sydney route as the carrier struggles with the fallout from the country's political crisis.
Sydney flights are a major source of most Asian airlines' long-haul revenue as passengers from Europe use the so-called kangaroo routes, with stopovers in southeast Asia or Hongkong, to reach Australia.
According to reports in the Thai media, the airline is looking to reduce Bangkok-Sydney flights from thrice-daily to two a day from August 1, 2010. However, THAI will raise Bangkok-Brisbane flights to five a week from the current three.
The airline also plans to increase flights between Thailand and Indonesia to 21 a week from 14 on July 1, subject to agreement on traffic rights. As a fellow ASEAN member state, Indonesia is a major trading partner of Thailand and its economy is being forecast by some analysts to grow by 7 percent in 2011.
Kenny Coyle
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MarcusUK - 08/06/2010 09:05
I took the overnight TG flight BKK to Sydney Mid April, A346 aircraft. First has only 2 /8, & business class was about 20% full, with the 2nd C cabin completely empty! The impact of The Emirate Airlines (Etihad, Emirates, Qatar), has taken much traffic down to Australia. There would be such inroads into the Asia carriers business, & many of us have seen this for a long time. Europe to Australia, many very high quality flights now allow you to fly direct, & avoid Asia.
Match the standards on the ground, on board, with the new aircraft, TG simply is not longer consistent with their changes of aircraft & mis-matched cabins. SQ are going the same way... quite a mistake.
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