20 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

I know of one family with 2 kids that was suppose to fly to Europe last night. They have been booked on a noon flight this Sunday, extending their stay in Thailand by 3 days, but ZERO compensation from Thai Airways.

No hotel, no taxi/limo from the airport, not even a 100 baht food voucher. Nil, nothing!

Bit low of Thai.

Not Thai Airways fault, and on top of that: better to live and be somewhat poorer, than to die in a blazing Thai glory, screaming all the way down.....

14 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Why fly Thai? 

 

Can't think of any reason really..

When you are right, you are right.

Probably there to arrest the 1 day overstayers

1 hour ago, DrTuner said:

Why fly Thai? 

 

Can't think of any reason really..

Best airline for London Thailand

Cheap in economy and award winning food and service

On-board service is the best bar Singapore Air

Great loyalty scheme for frequent flyers

Service from London office is exemplary

Lounge at Heathrow (United) is superb

No stop in the desert half way

2 flights a day so you can take day or night flight both ways as to your preference

7 hours ago, jackdd said:

If you go on https://www.flightradar24.com and set a filter for THA there are no flights between Europe in Thailand, so looks like they are still not flying

I don't know what you checked, but as you have seen on the other thread Thai has resumed flights as of today, as I had guessed.

 

 

7 hours ago, A Skeptic said:

I am an ex intercontinental airline captain (B747) with considerable experience of flying from/to SE Asia and Europe. There is not a single reason why Thai International Airways could not re-route around Pakistan and northern India. It's even quite possible, if you want, to avoid India completely. I've done it, usually at the planning stage, but once in mid flight. Other airlines on that route must be rubbing their hands together with glee

And the have re-routed, as expected.

But just to be clear, are you saying that it happened to you that you were flying, and then once in mid-flight there were suddenly aerial dogfights and war jets were being downed in the airspace in front of you, and you simply could fly around it? That would be amazing, and if you kindly let us know which airline was allowing this kind of risk to its passengers I'll make sure I never fly it.

 

But if you are talking of re-routing for weather, medical, technical emergencies then it's a completely different story and we do know it happens all the time.

37 minutes ago, arithai12 said:

I don't know what you checked, but as you have seen on the other thread Thai has resumed flights as of today, as I had guessed.

 

I checked what i wrote, airplanes that were actually in the air ????

Thai Airways has resumed the flights to Europe since about 3 hours (looks like BKK-FRA at 12:40pm was the first to depart)

The flights in the early morning hours today (so up until the time when i made my post) were cancelled.

Sad to see a busy airspace shut down. I guess tourist travel to and from Pakistan is zero as well.

  Good luck with your future tourists as well.  Glad I am heading to Hong Kong.

Geezer

4 hours ago, Mises said:

Best airline for London Thailand

Cheap in economy and award winning food and service

On-board service is the best bar Singapore Air

Great loyalty scheme for frequent flyers

Service from London office is exemplary

Lounge at Heathrow (United) is superb

No stop in the desert half way

2 flights a day so you can take day or night flight both ways as to your preference

i am booked on a a380 flight early April to lhr, not flown with them for many years so i will see.

20 minutes ago, steve187 said:

i am booked on a a380 flight early April to lhr, not flown with them for many years so i will see.

I prefer EVA Air on this route, used Thai a couple of times and ditched them though they were still using clapped out 747's at the time so things may have improved since then. Staff attitude on EVA seemed a bit friendlier to me and they are consistently less expensive as well. Flight times suit me as well but they only do one a day, not two as Thai do. 

 

I fly premium economy two or three times a year LHR-BKK and get an upgrade to biz every 35k miles. Not sure what the equivalent scheme is for Thai. I would say A380 is preferable to the B777 though - definitely a less noisy aircraft.

Edited February 28, 20197 yr by MarkyM3