After the 1-2 -Go plane crash in Phuket there has been many speculations and rumours about flight safety or lack of same in Thailand / Asia. Speculations concerning "company culture", but also speculations about the Thai authorities and their ability / willingness to perform their task to ensure, that the airlines follow the rules set up for safe operations of flights.

In the last few years I mostly have been flying with Thai Airways from Europe to Thailand, but all these speculations have made me think of, if I should switch to a western airline like Lufthansa, SAS, Finnair, Austrian Airlines, Swiss, simply for safety reasons?

I would like to hear your opinions, specially opinions from people working with aviation in Thailand / Asia

I am mostly interested in aspects concerning international flights, since I last year made the decision not to fly domestic flights anymore.

North

YES! I have flown Brisbane - London return 5 times in last 6 yrs and Brisbane - Bangkok return 6 times. I would'nt fly with anyone else.

Having said that, QANTAS has got the worlds best safety record.

I always fly Thai Air

Yes, confirmed: TG Business Class to London is old seats, not lie-flat. They appear to have only upgraded their seating on North American routes.

Not quite correct - I regularly fly BKK-Zurich on business and TG has an Airbus 340 on that route with the new lie flat seats. I have also occasionally flown BKK- Paris CDG which is a 747 route - sometimes you get an upgraded one, sometimes you don't, but even then it's not usually one of the old clunkers that they still have on the BKK-LHR route.

Supply & demand perhaps?

CC

Having said that, QANTAS has got the worlds best safety record.

Not quite...but it's very good.

Aint it about time this stupid thread was closed..

Of course its safe

FULL STOP.

Yes, confirmed: TG Business Class to London is old seats, not lie-flat. They appear to have only upgraded their seating on North American routes.

How up to date is your info? last 4 times I have flown Business class on TG to & from London-BKK its been the new product with lie flat seats. My understanding is they only have a couple of 747's left not converted to new product and they are mostly used on Copenhagen (no idea why) and regional routes.

Personally I fly TG a lot and have no issue with the quality of the flight or the airline. Probably helps that I rarely fly on anything less than 777 or 747, which would mean a more experienced pilot than say a 737 aircraft (i.e larger aircraft = larger salary, more experience).

I asked about aircraft on TG910 30 October and TG917 7 November. Both old seats on 747s.

Well,

It is nice to see a lot of response to my original post and thank you for that BUT:

I am really not interested in the Emirates and japanese highspeed trains !

My question was: Is It Safe To Fly Thai Airways International ?

Did you notice the button to the right of the button " add reply" ?

It is called " New Topic ", and you are welcome to use that button to create a new topic to discuss these matters.

thank you.

North

its as safe to fly thai air as any other airline in the world ..............