The Thai airlines wonder why they cannot make a profit.

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A very long time ago I had a similar night flight from Orlando to London heathrow, only 5 passengers on the entire aircraft a 747-300

3 of them slept the entire route, one lady passenger & I played cards, chatted, ate & drank with the crew all the way back to England!

Best flight I ever had, I married one of the cabin staff & were happily still together now !!

1 hour ago, Borzandy said:

For Emirates the fuel cost nothing.

Ah that old lie again.

Beautiful lady, I hope she has a great vacation. 

Don't believe that at that time of year there would only be her on the flight !

In the 1970s i flew with a mate of mine to Bournemouth from Birmingham and the return leg also we were the only 2 passengers on the plane. The jet had been used to take Bournemouth football supporters to and from the match with Birmingham.

So many buy into it.

I think total BS....

for a 1 hour flight?  big whop.. best i ever did was 12-14 hour flight from Taipei to LA.. it was a 747 and was so empty that each passenger in coach got to use the 4 seats in the middle of each row to lie down.. that was 20 years ago though..

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

So many buy into it.

I think total BS....

And why would you think that?

 

Oh wait, if you had compelling reasons you would have shared them already... so never mind 

Flights to the island are rip off hope it happens a lot and costs the company a small fortune. The last time I wanted to fly up to BKK they wanted more than 8,000 baht for a round trip .

11 hours ago, tifino said:

If han solo was the pilot... 

I presume "solo" is the key word here????

9 hours ago, Wallander4 said:

I like Bangkok Airlines - great service and always on time. Had this been THAI then they would have cancelled the flight due to … tjahhh

 

Not sure regarding Thai-air as my experience is that they fly as they are suposed to. However, with low-price "albatross airlines" i flow with years ago (Ukraine or Russian), they did cancel their flights due to "technical" (brake?????) failure to collect more people in the plane. Twice I've had 2 extra days in Bkk, all payed for with food and good hotel. Guess it's cheeper to pay a dosens of people for food and accommodation than burn all that fuel with an empty plane.

 

Thanx for the info about Bkk airlines. Today i don't mind to pay for quality and moreover, I like to suport (by flying with) airlines that take things seriously. 

 

Cheers

10 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

I was on an Emirates flight from Dubai to Bangkok once and including myself there were only five passengers on board -- on a Boeing 777.

Happened to me too last year through the Middle East on Gulf. I asked why it was so empty, she said very few people were travelling due to Ramadan. 

Pretty girl.

It's nice to have room. I flew from Germany to UAE during the Iraq war while they were pummeling Baghdad, the plane was near empty. Skirted around Iraq, saw some lights in the distance, no idea. It was Emirates, got a lot of tlc from the flight crew. Flying isn't nice but that one was ok.

Found another picture of her.

16 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Embarrassing and costly for the airline to run a flight with just one passenger.

Most of the time, these companies have contracts to shuttle cargo.

Judging by the litany of sexist comments, on this thread, the woman is lucky she was alone on that flight.

Edited December 2, 20187 yr by kwilco

16 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

I was on an Emirates flight from Dubai to Bangkok once and including myself there were only five passengers on board -- on a Boeing 777.

Think I might of been on this flight also,  it was about 2 years ago, just pick your own seat, the best flight I ever had, other than business class

16 hours ago, nodomino said:

a dead-head return to Northwest Airlines Hub in Minneapolis

 

You mean everybody on the plane was on acid and wearing tie-dye?    Sorry, couldn't resist.  Yeah, I know what it means, my ex was a FA.

 

A few years ago I was having a conversation with a young German woman who believed all the crap she read on a 9/11 conspiracy web site.  Among her arguments was that one of the planes involved was nearly empty.  I told her this was not uncommon, a personal example was I once took a 747 from NYC to London and there were only 12 passengers (I counted).  Another time I flew from California to NYC and there just about as many.  She said it didn't make sense, why would they do that?  Why not cancel the flight?  I couldn't be bothered explaining transport logistics, especially seeing where she was at.  I begged off with "hey, I just buy the ticket and take the flight, I don't run the airline."

 

 

Well this may be a long shot but since the average age of posters on here is pretty high and there have  now been posts of people being one of the few passengers on an airplane in the 1990’s , 1980’s , 1970’s a guy who said he met his current wife on an almost empty flight a long long time ago so I’ll call that one 1960’s. I was wondering were any of you on the Wright brothers flight in Kitty Hawk? ????

20 hours ago, fruitman said:

I guess this is Bangkok-airlines....they are expensive because they call themselves a boutique airline where passengers get a free banana while waiting.

they are not expensive at all. They have great prices to most destinations. The only reason the Samui flights are expensive is because they own the airport and have a monopoly on this route (yes, Thai Airways also fly there, by special permission of Bangkok air which also control the price)

1 hour ago, LukKrueng said:

(yes, Thai Airways also fly there, by special permission of Bangkok air which also control the price)

Thai airways has cancelled that route.

Embarrassing and costly for the airline to run a flight with just one passenger.

Sometimes a flight is delayed/cancelled due to a technical fault most of the customers accommodated on other flights.

How costly would it be to cancel a flight ( with one customer) when a full boat is waiting in the other end?

On 12/2/2018 at 10:50 AM, Wallander4 said:

Tourist numbers are booming … ehhhh not really right

 

I like Bangkok Airlines - great service and always on time. Had this been THAI then they would have cancelled the flight due to … tjahhh

Amazing. i fly regularly between Samui and Bangkok and the flights are usually 95 - 100% full. Also, it can be hard to get a flight if you don't book at least a week early.

On 12/2/2018 at 10:50 AM, Wallander4 said:

Tourist numbers are booming … ehhhh not really right

 

I like Bangkok Airlines - great service and always on time. Had this been THAI then they would have cancelled the flight due to … tjahhh

Amazing. i fly regularly between Samui and Bangkok and the flights are usually 95 - 100% full. Also, it can be hard to get a flight if you don't book at least a week early.

 

Thai airways has cancelled that route.

well, so now again they have full monopoly for that route...