Must Read Airlines still offering flights from Thailand to the UK as of 30 March

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Airlines still offering flights from Thailand to the UK as of 30 March

 

 

???? As of 30 March, the following airlines still offer flights from Thailand to the UK. As the situation changes very rapidly, please confirm the status of your flight with the airline.

Although most of the flights are fully booked, there is a chance for passengers to stand by at the airport as seats are usually available due to no shows. Please notify the check-in staff at least 2 hours before the counter closes so that you have sufficient time to get the tickets issued.

????Airlines with direct flights to the UK:

✈️ Thai Airways
TG916/TG910 BKK-LHR will be temporarily suspended from 1 April 2020 until further notice. TG910 departs tomorrow morning at 0315hrs known as the night flight. All classes are overbooked with waiting lists. For standby, contact standby counter at J18-19 round 2+hours to add names on the list before departure time. This is the last flight operating directly to London.

www.thaiairways.com/
Contact number: ‪‪‪+66 2-356-1111, ‪‫‪+66 2-356-1122, ‪‫‪+66 ‪2-137-4605

✈️ EVA Air

30-31 Mar : No flight operates
www.evaair.com
Contact numbers: ‪‪‪+66 2-302-7288, ‪‫‪+66 ‪2-134-2521-5

✈️ British Airways
BA10 BKK to LHR no longer operates until further notice.

www.britishairways.com
Contact numbers: ‪‫‪+66 2-1342201-8

????Airlines with non-direct flights to the UK:

✈️ Lufthansa (new route)

LH773 Bangkok (BKK) to Frankfurt (FRA) departs tonight at 2300hrs arriving local time at 0600hrs.

Onward connection from Frankfurt (FRA) to Heathrow (LHR) is Lufthansa flight LH900 departing at 0800hrs.

Other transit destinations in the UK are available too from Frankfurt (FRA).

www.lufthansa.com
Contact numbers: +66 2-264-2400, +66 2-134-2213, +66 2-654-6800 (call centre)

✈️Thai Airways (new route)

TG920 Bangkok (BKK) to Frankfurt (FRA) departs at 2345hrs tonight, arriving at 0615hrs local time.

Again there are many transit connection possibilities to the UK from Frankfurt (FRA) as above.

www.thaiairways.com/
Contact number: ‪‪‪+66 2-356-1111, ‪‫‪+66 2-356-1122, ‪‫‪+66 ‪2-137-4605

✈️SWISS (new route)

LX181 Bangkok (BKK) to Zurich (ZRH) departs at 1245hrs today arriving in Zurich at 1935hrs.

Transit connection (overnight transit) with British Airways flight BA713 leaving at 1325hrs next day is available.

Onward connections available to Manchester is available too.

Fully booked but good chance for standby passengers. Contact counter G24.

Please note that 31 March will be last flight to Zurich on this route.

www.swiss.com
Contact number: +66 2-134-2095-6, +66 2-654-6800, +66 2-654-6800 (call centre)

✈️Korean Air

There is 1 flight from BKK-ICH daily. KE652 BKK-ICH, departs BKK at 2330hrs arriving at ICN 0655hrs+1

Connecting to LHR:

KE907 ICH-LHR departing ICH 1320hrs arriving LHR 1725hrs (operates only on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday)

BA18 ICH-LHR departing ICH 1035hrs arriving LHR 1430hrs (operates only on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday)

www.koreanair.com
Korean Air Regional Office in Bangkok: +66-2-620-6999

✈️Qatar Airways

Currently 3 flights per day departing from Bangkok to Doha. Next available flight BKK-DOH today is QR833 departing at 2110hrs. There are 10 seats available. All other Qatar flights to DOH today are cancelled.

From Doha, there are 1-2 flights per day to Heathrow (LHR), Manchester (MAN), Birmingham (BHX), Edinburgh (EDI) and Cardiff (CWL). For more information, refer to www.qatarairways.com

All flights are over booked. However, there are always no shows.

Tomorrow the flights have limited availability, 3 flights again: QR837 at 0210hrs, QR831 at 0905hrs and QR981 at 1940hrs.

Standby - available to passengers who already hold previously issued Qatar Air tickets. 10% discount for one way travel here, use promo code TRAVELHOME. All bookings must be made online.

www.qatarairways.com
Contact numbers: ‪‪‪+66 2-1341021-23, ‪‫‪+66 2-6180499, ‪‫‪+66 ‪‪2-134-3517-8

✈️Finnair

Flight AY142 BKK to HEL departed this morning at 0900hrs and is operating as normal. All of their flights are fully booked on the reservation system at present but high chance for standby passengers. On previous flights, after closing the counter, there are several seats available on each flight.

Tonight the AY144 BKK to HEL will depart at 2325hrs.

A connecting flight would be the AY337 from HEL-LHR tomorrow at 1600hrs and could enable passengers to transfer to Heathrow.

The final flight on this route from BKK to HEL is the AY142 departing on Tuesday 31 March at 0855hrs. After that, operations will cease.

www.finnair.com
Contact number: ‪‫‪+66 ‪2 134 2431-2

✈️KLM

KL876 departing from Bangkok (BKK) to Amsterdam (AMS) is scheduled to leave at 2230hrs tonight.

There will be 2 flights a week. The next will be the KL876 departing on Saturday 4 April at 2230hrs.

At this moment the flights are full but standby is always an option.

For onward transfer in Amsterdam (AMS) to the UK, there are a lot of flights with KLM to larger airports and KLM Cityhopper to regional airports.

www.klm.com
Contact number: +66 2-6100800

✈️Ethiopian Airlines (new route)

Next flight available from Bangkok (BKK) to Addis (ADD) is the ET609 on 31 March departing at 0150hrs.

This would connect with ET710 from Addis (ADD) to Heathrow (LHR), departing at 1115hrs.

They will maintain weekly flights available on 4, 11, 18 and 25 April 2020.

www.flyethiopian.com
Contact number: +66 2-134-3061-5, +66 2-653-4366-8

✈️Emirates

Flights now suspended.

✈️Etihad

Flights now suspended.

????Regional flights:

✈️ Air Asia

Operate as normal. Today there are 13 scheduled flights available from Phuket (HKT) to Bangkok (BKK) departing every hour until 2335hrs with good seat availability.

There are also 12 flights from Chiang Mai (CNX) to Bangkok (DMK), again every hour until 2330hrs with good seat availability.

Domestic flights will be temporary suspended from 1-30 April. They plan to resume again on 1 May 2020.

✈️Bangkok Airways

Flight from Phuket (HKT) to Bangkok (BKK) : There are 7 fight daily scheduled today, for bookings please contact 1771. The PG272 at 1020 is cancelled.

Please note that there are 5 flights available today; PG276 at 1215hrs, PG274 at 1440hrs, PG286 at 1610hrs, PG284 at 1710hrs and PG278 at 1910hrs.

There are 3 flights scheduled from Chiang Mai (CNX) to Bangkok (BKK) today; PG216 at 1010hrs was cancelled, PG226 at 1640hrs and PG220 at 1905hrs.

Social distancing : they have marked points in the lift and waiting queues for checking in. Please observe these.

✈️Thai Smile Air

4 flights remaining today from Chiang Mai (CNX) to Bangkok (BKK). These are WE105 at 1040hrs, WE111 at 1510hrs, WE117 at 1920hrs and WE121 at 2050hrs.

Very good seat availability on all flights✈️Thai Airways

No regional flights from Phuket (HKT) are operating.

✈️Nok Air
Operating 7 flights today from Chiang Mai (CNX) to Bangkok (DMK) – departing until 2115hrs. Good seat availability at present.

Tomorrow (31 March), 8 flights are scheduled, again with good seat availability.

Phuket (HKT) to Bangkok (DMK) – 3 flights remain today.

✈️Finnair
They operated their last flight on 28 March from Phuket (HKT) to Helsinki (HEL) on this route. Flight number AY152. Flight will resume on 7th November 2020.

✈️Qatar
Phuket (HKT) to Doha (DOH) flight QR841 departs at 2040hrs.

On Monday 30 March, 2 flights; QR843 at 0855hrs and QR841 departing at 2040hrs.

Chiang Mai (CNX) to Doha (DOH) flight QR823 departs at 0830hrs daily.

All of these with possible onward connections to the UK from Doha (DOH).

❗️Please note that this information is correct at the time of publication. The operational situation changes hourly. We will continue to update our #TravelAdvice for #Thailand. Check our page https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/thailand/ regularly and sign-up to email alerts.

[natway09]

Pretty comprehensive information here.

I do not need but if I did I would be saying "Thankyou"

[tso310]

Correcting the Qatar details. 

 

Doha – Amsterdam
23MAR20 – 31MAY20 A350-900XWB replaces 777-300ER, 1 daily

 

Doha – Bangkok
23MAR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 7 to 3 daily, 777-300ER operating (Previous plan: 2 daily in April/May with A350-1000XWB

 

Doha – Barcelona
QR145/146 1 daily A350-900XWB normal operation until 20APR20

 

Doha – Birmingham
01APR20 – 31MAY20 7 weekly cancelled

 

Doha – Berlin Tegel
02APR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 7 to 4 weekly, A350-1000XWB operating (selected dates A350-900XWB; Previously plan: 1 daily)

 

Doha – Brussels
29MAR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 8 to 4 weekly, 787-8 replaces 777-300ER (Except selected dates in April with 777)

 

Doha – Cardiff
31MAR20 – 31MAY20 5 weekly cancelled

 

Doha – Copenhagen
22MAR20 – 28MAR20 Reduce from 18 to 5 weekly, 777-300ER operating
29MAR20 – 12APR20 Reduce from 18 to 7 weekly, 777-300ER operating
13APR20 – 30APR20 Reduce from 18 to 5 weekly, 777-300ER operating

 

Doha – Dublin
29MAR20 – 30JUN20 Reduce from 11 to 4 weekly, 787-8 operating (Additional flights scheduled for week of 29MAR20; Previous plan 7 weekly)

 

Doha – Edinburgh
29MAR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 10 to 4 weekly, A350-900XWB operating (Previous plan: 7 weekly)

 

Doha – Frankfurt
20MAR20 – 30JUN20 QR067/068 A350-1000XWB replaces A380
29MAR20 – 01MAY20 2 daily A350/777-300ER (selected dates 3 daily; Previous plan: reduce to 1 daily)

 

Doha – Helsinki
01APR20 – 11APR20 Reduce from 14 to 7 weekly, A350-900XWB operating
12APR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 14 to 3 weekly, A350-900XWB (Previous plan: eff 01APR20)

 

Doha – London Gatwick
23MAR20 – 31MAY20 18 weekly cancelled

 

Doha – London Heathrow
Overall service reduces from 6 to 4 daily from 29MAR20 to 15APR20, 3 daily from 16APR20, 2 daily from 01MAY20 to 31MAY20

QR005/006 14MAR20 – 31MAY20 1 daily cancelled
QR003/004 19MAR20 – 30JUN20 777-300ER replaces A380
QR009/010 19MAR20 – 30JUN20 A350-1000XWB replaces A380, 4 weekly (A380 scheduled on 28/29/31MAR20)
QR011/012
19MAR20 – 29MAR20 3 weekly cancelled
30MAR20 – 31MAY20 A350-1000XWB replaces A380 (Selected dates 777-300ER)

QR001/002 16APR20 – 31MAY20 1 daily cancelled (Previous plan: eff 20MAR20)
QR007/008 01MAY20 – 31MAY20 1 daily cancelled (Previous plan: eff 01APR20)
QR015/016 01APR20 – 31MAY20 1 daily cancelled

 

Doha – Madrid
01APR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 21 to 4 weekly, 787-8 operating

 

Doha – Manchester
23MAR20 – 16APR20 Reduce from 3 to 2 daily, 777-300ER/787-8 operating (Previous plan: until 31MAR20)
17APR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 3 to 1 daily, 787-8 operating (Previous plan: eff 01APR20)

 

Doha – Munich
01APR20 – 13APR20 Reduce from 14 to 10 weekly, 777-300ER operating
14APR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 14 to 7 weekly, 777-300ER operating (A350-900XWB replaces 777 from 01MAY20)

 

Doha – Paris CDG
QR039/040
18MAR20 – 31MAY20 A350-900XWB/777-300ER replaces A380
QR041/042
22MAR20 – 30APR20 A350-900XWB replaces A380 (Planned cancellation delayed to 01MAY20, instead of eff 01APR20)
QR037/038 01APR20 – 30APR20 1 daily cancelled

Doha – Prague
01APR20 – 27APR20 Reduce from 14 to 4 weekly, A320 operating (Previous plan: 3 weekly)
28APR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 14 to 3 weekly, A320 operating

 

Doha – Rome
23MAR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 21 to 4 weekly, 777-300ER/787-8 operating (Previous plan: 3 weekly)

 

Doha – Stockholm Arlanda
29MAR20 – 12APR20 Reduce from 14 to 7 weekly, 777-300ER operating (Previous plan: 4 weekly)
13APR20 – 31MAY20 Reduce from 14 to 4 weekly, 777-300ER operating (787-8 in May; Previous plan: 2-3 weekly)

 

Doha – Zurich
02APR20 – 30APR20 Reduce from 14 to 5 weekly

 

[tso310]

Current EVA plan. My understanding is that they are actually operating on alternate days. The next flight being on 1 April then 3, 5, 7 etc. The last return to TPE via Bangkok is 1 April.

 

Taipei Taoyuan – Bangkok 3 weekly 777-300ER
Taipei Taoyuan – Bangkok – London Heathrow 3 weekly 777-300ER (No passenger traffic on Taipei – Bangkok sector, inbound from London operates nonstop to Taipei, instead of via Bangkok)

[Jonathan Fairfield]

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