It appears that BA will start flying  again.    from Gatwick. not a fan myself but a bit of competition might help.    

My choice from LHR-BKK, EVA, is getting expensive. Business £3250 return and premium economy near £2k. The latter used to be around £950 pre-pandemic. However, changing planes isn't ideal if you want to sleep or keep journey times down and Thai Airways are sub-standard imo. No other direct options.

 

I wouldn't use BA from Gatwick, since I'm near Heathrow, and BA long-haul doesn't have much of a reputation in any case. But agree it would be good to have some more point-to-point competition. Not sure why it has taken BA so long to get this route going again tbh, the last 2 winter seasons have been busy. Unless they sold/lost the slot.

They could use the aircraft they had available on more profitable routes and during COVID Thailand kept messing around with allowing passenger flights then not,not what an airline wants. Also they switched their hub to onward routes to Australia etc. from Bangkok to Singapore who obviously were better organised and more competitive. As a single point destination 3 flights per week from Gatwick is all it merits 

No for me I'm afraid, can't sit in a torture chamber for 12 hours 😅😂😅

5 minutes ago, Chongalulu said:

They could use the aircraft they had available on more profitable routes and during COVID Thailand kept messing around with allowing passenger flights then not,not what an airline wants. Also they switched their hub to onward routes to Australia etc. from Bangkok to Singapore who obviously were better organised and more competitive. As a single point destination 3 flights per week from Gatwick is all it merits 

 absolutely agreed.  Coming out of C19 the rebound in demand was far faster than anyone would have thought.. and that came on the heels of carriers doing sweeping manpower reductions and aircraft storage - as C19 began to really bite - and the resumption of service meant unwinding furloughed crew and aircraft — both of which take substantial time to complete … so there was a pretty big capacity shortage initially

.. so the carriers had to deploy where the demand was the greatest .. and the reality was that Asia - as a whole - was far slower to fully reopen than other parts.

 

Thailand has long been a high volume, but low margin destination and with nominal onward connection traffic .. so it would make sense that it might be one of the last / later destinations that BA would look to either open or restart. 

Just had a look at prices regarding direct flights picking dates in November 2024, Business Class and BA came in at 143k THB. Thai Airways was 124k THB and Eva was 135k THB. That is certainly the cheapest I have seen with Thai Airways!! Normally they are the most expensive so something has been going on with their pricing.

All good if you live around the south east.         Qatar/Emirates from regional airports    

BA business class is only good if you have a thing for looking up your fellow passengers nostrils, or you want to recreate the experience of sleeping on a hospital trolley in a busy corridor.  EVA seat layout is much better.

 

And paying extra for seat choice is a rip off.