Bangkok Flights

Kingfisher Airlines will launch daily direct flights between Bangkok and Kolkata from August 14, 2009. The launch of this new route will mark the first time that Kingfisher Airlines will be commencing operations from India to South East Asia. The flights between Bangkok and Kolkata will be operated using the A320 family of aircraft featuring Kingfisher Class, the premium economy service from Kingfisher Airlines.

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Following the successful deployment of Emirates' A380 to Sydney and Auckland, the Dubai-based airline announced it will launch A380 flights on Bangkok route on June 1, 2009.

The introduction of the A380 on the Dubai-Bangkok-Dubai route will boost available capacity by 30 % and is expected to contribute to increasing tourist arrivals from Dubai and the larger Middle East. The new Emirates service represents the aviation world's first A380 operation to Bangkok and promises to usher in a whole new, luxury air travel experience to Thailand.

The existing EK 372/373 daily service will be operated by Emirates' A380. EK 372 departs Dubai at 09:40 hours, arriving in Bangkok at 19:00 hours. Return flight EK 373 departing Bangkok at 21:25 hours and arriving in Dubai at 00:30 hours the following morning.

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Hong Kong based airline Cathay Pacific announced the launch of a daily non-stop flight from Delhi to Bangkok from March 30.

The Delhi-Bangkok non-stop flight will take five-and-a-half hours. It will leave New Delhi at 3.30 am and reach Bangkok at 8.55 am. The airline will leave Bangkok at 5.25 pm and reach New Delhi at 7.45 pm (local time).

At present Cathay Pacific flies to Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore. It has two daily flights from Delhi to Hong Kong and 10 flights a week from Mumbai.

Shenzhen Airlines, China's fifth largest air carrier, will start direct flights between Shenzhen and Bangkok from March 31, reported Xinhua.

Flight ZH9793 on a Boeing 737-800 aircraft will depart Shenzhen at 11:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and arrive in Bangkok at 1 a.m. local time on the following day.

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Nok Air will resume flights between Bangkok and Phuket on February 20th, 2009. Flights on this route were suspended while the airline was restructuring last year. At the present time Nok Air operates from Don Muang airport in Bangkok. Current schedule shows two flights per day on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, and one flight per day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. Nok Air is partially owned by Thai Airways International.

Bangkok Airways will increase flight frequency on the “Bangkok - Chiang Mai”, “Bangkok - Phuket” and “Phuket - Samui” routes starting this winter schedule from October 26th onwards.

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Thai Airways International plans to increase frequency of direct flights from Bangkok to Moscow from three to four flights per week from October.

Executive vice-president for commercial, Mr Pandit Chanapai, said the airline anticipated the demand from Russians for Thailand would increase significantly during the high season, which started from October, hence increasing the flight frequency on the route was commercially viable.

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Thai Airways International will resume a direct flight from Tokyo to Phuket starting from July 17, 2008. Thai will operate 2 flights per week, on Thursday and Saturday, with departure from Tokyo at 10.00 hrs. (Tokyo time) and arrival in Phuket at 15.25 hrs. (local time). The return flight will depart from Phuket at 16.30 hrs. and arrive in Bangkok at 17.55 hrs. The aircraft employed will be Boeing 777-200, with 30 seats in Royal Executive class and 279 in economy class.

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Jet Airways will operate daily flights between Bangkok and Mumbai starting May 7. Jet Airways will be deploying Boeing 737-800 aircrafts on the Bangkok-Mumbai route. The flight no. 9W061 BKK-BOM will depart from Bangkok at 8:00am and reach Mumbai at 11:10am. The flight no. 9W062 BOM-BKK will depart from Mumbai at 00:50am and reach Bangkok at 6:35am. The flight will be on a daily basis and is expected to start from May 7, 2008.

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Thai Airways will inaugurate daily Bangkok-Samui flights on February 15, according to Chaisak Angkasuwan, director-general of the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA). Mr. Chaisak said the DCA on Thursday morning met executives of the national flag carrier and Bangkok Airways, a private firm which owns Samui airport.

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