Thai Airways eyes expansion into food business

By The Nation

 

 

Thai Airways International (THAI) is planning to go into the food business with the aim of generating Bt4.4 billion in revenue to help rehabilitate the company in the fallout of Covid-19.

 

Since the airline is still unable to resume services, its catering business – which provided more than 100,000 meals a day earning between Bt700 million and Bt800 million a month – has been sitting more or less idle.

 

Over the past seven months, THAI has only earned Bt1.9 billion compared to Bt8.9 billion during the same period last year.

 

It has been reported that THAI is in talks with CP All and Inthanin Coffee to deliver food products to more than 20,000 branches of 7-Eleven and 600 Inthanin Cafes.

 

The airline’s catering department has also opened three new Puff and Pie outlets.

 

Initially, Thai Airways had contacted PTT and Bangchak Corporation to assess their interest in the investment and has also sought a Bt100 million bank loan, which has been approved.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30393776

 

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For those who are missing Thai Airways cuisine you can now rekindle those fond memories at 7/11

 

 

 

Edited August 31, 20206 yr by Kadilo

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

Puff and Pie outlets.

Magic .. worth a dough as the no flying is dragon on abit ...

2 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

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1 minute ago, Kadilo said:

For those who are missing Thai Airways cuisine you can now rekindle those fond memories at 7/11

Doesn’t sound like a stupid idea. And what do you think you get served at 7-11 and gas stations if it doesn’t come from TG? Just a different mass producer of convenience <deleted> that has production cost of a few baht. 

Bit like a Thai cement manufacturer moving into the porridge market !

Thai's reason for existence (as specifically mandated by Thai gov't dictate / the actions it undertakes to make money is operating an airline to move people and cargo from A to B. 

 

If I held any serious policy position in this sad chaos I would be seriously demanding they get back to their core business and focus totally on the core business/their reason for existence.

 

Seems to me that the creditors (who are owed several hundred billion Baht), should be making the same demand, total focus on core business.

Edited August 31, 20206 yr by scorecard

Thai airways omelette two-in-one, if you don't eat it, it can be used as a sponge! 

Hey you there Thai airways, how about giving me back the 30,000 baht refund on a cancelled trip from back in March before you go start another business using my money please..Turned out by the following article that those gus at TG were rotten and crooks to the core, no surprise there...

https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2020/08/30/thai-airways-employee-claimed-419-days-of-overtime-in-a-single-year/

Edited August 31, 20206 yr by ezzra

7 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Hey you there Thai airways, how about giving me back the 30,000 baht refund on a cancelled trip from back in March before you go start another business using my money please...

“We can offer you only the chicken curry sir as compensation,  the beef is finished”

Edited August 31, 20206 yr by Kadilo

And has also sought a Bt100 million bank loan, which has been approved and is called the have your cake and eat it ???? 

I can just see the new logo........

"Smooth As Somtam"

Airline food outside First and Business class generally only gets eaten because it's a long flight and there's no FoodPanda available. Bringing that food to ground level could face some stiff competition from places that actually make food edible. I just can't wait to see their wonderful bread-lookalike buns available at local 7-11...

 

Actually wonder if they'll bring their vegetarian offering to convenience stores. As for some menus it's already there. Chose fruit platter on TG from HKG to BKK and got 2 bananas... Wonder how TG bananas would compete with Dole bananas...

The wife and I flew to Australia on Thai a few years ago and I  commented that this was the best airline food I had ever eaten.  On the return leg the food was terrible and neither of us could eat it. I  commented it would be great if there was a 7/11 on board.  Well I  guess it could be considered ironic that the 2 are working together now! 

After all of the corruption and money dissapering  i have to wonder,will they ever fly again?

 

10 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

I  commented it would be great if there was a 7/11 on board. 

If there was you'd get the smell of those hot dogs on the grill permeating the plane, just like in the stores.  Turns my stomach.  Terrible when you have to wait on line at the counter and stand right near the thing.

 

 

"Thai Puff & Pie" airways has a nice ring to it. ????

Will this economy class food or Business /First class catering??

 

If it is business/first catering, who will prepare the dish in a 7/11??

If it is economy I thought , this was already sold in 7/11 stores, my bad

 

 

 

 

Thai Airways food  “Smooth as silk........next to the milk”

1 hour ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

 

Doesn’t sound like a stupid idea. And what do you think you get served at 7-11 and gas stations if it doesn’t come from TG? Just a different mass producer of convenience <deleted> that has production cost of a few baht. 

The ultimate Thai apologist strikes again 

Wonder if staff will get free meals in 7-11

31 minutes ago, Katipo said:

"Thai Puff & Pie" airways has a nice ring to it. ????

Reminds me of sex.

They got hungry military regime and elite to feed at the trough. Better make some food now!

Just resolve existing issues & get ready to fly again (if you are going to)

In other words, don't give up your day job

they RAN their main business into the ground

so they probably will do even worse in a business model that seeks profits...

 

those 100.000 meals, people had the choice of NOT eating or eating what you paid for, on a plane, big difference if you want to make something people actually want to eat & pay for

2 hours ago, Kadilo said:

“We can offer you only the chicken curry sir as compensation,  the beef is finished”

Perhaps similar to taking a business class evening flight, after take off they start to serve drinks, I'm the first passenger they serve.

 

I ask for a gin and tonic. Response: 'Gin and tonic finished today, what beer do you want'. 

57 minutes ago, Canuck1966 said:

The ultimate Thai apologist strikes again 

Whatever a “Thai apologist” is — since you didn’t have any counter-arguments, I may assume you agree to my point. 

I avoid flying Thai Air precisely because their food is amongst the worst of all airlines. Good luck to them in selling worse food at higher prices than KFC and McDonalds. 

1 hour ago, Grumpy John said:

The wife and I flew to Australia on Thai a few years ago and I  commented that this was the best airline food I had ever eaten.  On the return leg the food was terrible and neither of us could eat it. I  commented it would be great if there was a 7/11 on board.  Well I  guess it could be considered ironic that the 2 are working together now! 

You do of course realize that on the outbound leg to OZ the food was prepared in Thailand and the inbound leg to Thailand the food was prepared in OZ!

????

Not quite the news I expected to read after the other news paper reporting about corruption found in Thai Air but well this is sponsored by The Nation after all.