Thai on the boil
 

Thai Airways International received government approval to spend $1.4 billion on aircraft. The carrier will purchase three A340-500s and five A340-600s to be delivered between 2004 and 2006, along with seven five-year-old 747s from United Airlines, Reuters reported.


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1.4bn list, 1.04bn approved spend (32% off).

Why the difference?:confused: I'm missing something here.

They got government approval to buy the A340s. Airbus "prices" them at 1.4bn. However, government has only approved spending of 1.04bn. Thus we see how much the discount was.

I think this was on the orders yahoogroup.

Arh, gotcha now. Thanks:ok:

Thai to Norway from when?
 

Any idea when the airline is starting their Oslo route? it will be with a 744 via Copenhagen full rights both ways.

Thai to quit Geneva
 

Theyn will will pull out of the market on teh 29th of January ending their brief 1 and half years of service to the city, initially with a 777-300 via Athens, at present a 744 nonstop.

Thai to Milan from May
 

Twice weekly from Bangkok nonstop using a 747-300 starting from the 4th.

Thai to Russia from October
 

TG are planning to start service to Moscow from this year, any idea on routing equipment? its their first former Soviet destination. A new US destination is also being considered from amongst Miami, Chicago, San Francisco and New York.

Photos of Thai new First/Business Class & more
 

Covering the introduction of A345 plus other things related to new identity, http://photo.thaiaviation.net/thumbnails.php?album=397

Thai to Moscow
 

TG are planning to start MOW this August any one have more info on this?

Thai Airways
 

They have listed these places for 2006 launch:

Manchester, Amsterdam, Berlin with seasonal services to Budapest and Prague.

Elsewhere they will be adding Johannesburg as well as Japanese cities Hiroshima and Sendai.

Source: Airliner World.

Hi Newscaster

Where did you read this as I have been waiting a long time for this news

G-I-B

Maybe 'Airliner World'

Ah maybe because I heard that it would be 2007/8 before they started but has slipped many times over the years, but we can hope

G-I-B

Are they looking at bringing more pax into Thailand generally, or hoping to take advantage of getting more transfer pax through the new facilities at Suvarnabhumi - if it is actually open by the time these new routes start?:\ (website still says "due to open in 2005)

Either way, I'm sure MAN to BKK will work well.

Asking for Thai airways aircraft...
 

Anybody knows what aircraft will Thai airways give from Bangkok to Rome on the month of december ?...Anybody with comments or replies will do ....Tkz

hi
 

I thoguht the Suvarnbhumi airport was officially open ......

according to THAIAIR it was due to open sept 29th '05, I presume it is open now given that we are now nearly a year on from that date????

It is. Last week.

In fact, there's an SLF thread here.