Bangkok Flights

Oman Air is planning to significantly increase its capacity on the Bangkok - Muscat route. Oman's national carrier, which only started flying the route on Nov 29 last year, planned to use a high-capacity jetliner like a Boeing 767-300 and raise flight frequency to seven per week from five now starting in March.

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Thai Airways International increased flights on Bangkok – Hyderabad, India route, to 5 flights per week. The airline first began Bangkok – Hyderabad flights on 30 October 2006, operating 3 flights per week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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Air Macau will add three flights per week between Macau and Bangkok, Thailand during January. Beginning January 22, 2008 the new services will take off from Macau at 11.25am on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and leave Bangkok at 2.20pm on the the same days.

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After over two months of suspension, the state-owned Myanmar Airways is to resume flights to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur in January 2008. A Myanmar Airways official in Rangoon was reported as saying that the airlines will resume flights to the capitals of Thailand and Malaysia in early January with A319 Airbus instead of the old MD 82 aircraft.

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To meet peak season demand for travel to Mae Hong Son during Thailand’s cool season, PB Air will be launching a new Bangkok - Mae Hong Son service that will be offered every Tuesday and Saturday from 1 December 2007 to 1 March 2008 only.

This new Bangkok-Mae Hong Son service is a PB Air - Thai Airways International (THAI) code-sharing route and will be served by a 50-seater ERJ 145 aircraft.

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Air Seychelles has started its first non-stop weekly service between the Seychelles capital Mahe and Bangkok to cater to increasing tourism and trade between the two countries. The inaugural seven-hour flight carried 222 passengers and 10 cabin crew on board a new Boeing 767-200ER aircraft called La Belle Creole.

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Environmental authorities have given the green light to airlines that want to operate higher-capacity aircraft and offer more flights through the privately run Samui Airport.

As part of the approval, carriers would be allowed to operate two additional daily flights beyond the previous maximum of 34 flights per day while using two more aircraft types, the Airbus 319 and Boeing 737-400.

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Bangkok Post reports that Orient Thai Airlines is preparing to start Bangkok-Kathmandu flights on Dec 29, breaking a decades-long monopoly on the route by Thai Airways International. Orient Thai will become the third carrier to serve Nepal's capital from Bangkok on a scheduled basis in addition to THAI and Nepal Airlines, which recently suspended all international services after its last working Boeing 757 jetliner was sent for maintenance.

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Thai Airways will increase flights on domestic sectors departing from Bangkok, destined for Chiang Mai and Phuket, in order to meet passenger demands for increased travel during the New Years holiday period of 26 December 2007 to 6 January 2008.

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Orient Thai Airlines and its budget unit One-Two-Go Airlines plan to undergo a major fleet revamp, replacing its aging aircraft with a new generation of jetliners expected to cost a total of US$2.5 billion. The airline group hopes to acquire 20 brand-new jetliners, including eight Boeing 787-9s and 12 Boeing 737-900s, for delivery starting in the next four years.

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