Thai Airways International Reduces Fuel Surcharge; Chairman Resigns

[george]

Thai Airways International Reduces Fuel Surcharge; Chairman Resigns

Thai Airways International has reduced its fuel surcharges on domestic and international routes. The reductions are in addition to previous cuts which took place in October.

Effective 6 November 2008 the fuel surcharge on all international routes has been reduced by an average of around 30%. The fuel surcharge on THAI’s domestic routes has been lowered to THB 700 from THB 750 per flight.

On the same day as the new fuel reductions became effective, Flg. Off. Apinan Sumanaseni, THAI’s President confirmed that Mr. Chaisawasd Kittipornpaiboon, Chairman and member of the Board of Directors has resigned from his position. Mr. Chaisawasd Kittipornpaiboon had been with THAI for just 11 months.

Mr. Suparat Kawatkul, who has been with THAI for over 3 years, most recently as 1st Vice Chairman, has been appointed Acting Chairman.

-- AsiaTravelTips.com 2008-11-07

[ray08]

high prices ,and bad services and terrible FF program , just have qote for Qatar businnes ,BKK - London , thb 85 k with taxes , website is about thb 87great service and very good food and wine , Thai same route about thb 126 k ,including tax ,website is 148k,

Surely to get market share back in these hard times ,you would start with filling up planes with competitive prices ,and more efficient planes , i am no airline expert , but maybe an oustsider from another succesful airline eg Emirates might be better to run the airline instead of using the same team again and again ,who just want to cut costs and service and increase fares

[tw25rw]

What don't you like about their ff programme?

[jts-khorat]

Thai Airways International Reduces Fuel Surcharge; Chairman Resigns

Thai Airways International has reduced its fuel surcharges on domestic and international routes. The reductions are in addition to previous cuts which took place in October.

Effective 6 November 2008 the fuel surcharge on all international routes has been reduced by an average of around 30%. The fuel surcharge on THAI’s domestic routes has been lowered to THB 700 from THB 750 per flight.

On the same day as the new fuel reductions became effective, Flg. Off. Apinan Sumanaseni, THAI’s President confirmed that Mr. Chaisawasd Kittipornpaiboon, Chairman and member of the Board of Directors has resigned from his position. Mr. Chaisawasd Kittipornpaiboon had been with THAI for just 11 months.

Mr. Suparat Kawatkul, who has been with THAI for over 3 years, most recently as 1st Vice Chairman, has been appointed Acting Chairman.

-- AsiaTravelTips.com 2008-11-07

Both, reducing the surcharge, and firing the chairman, where very long overdue.

It is however unlucky that an airline so mangled by mis-management did not get outside cunsulting in, but moved just the next snout in line to the trough. Thai Airways -- in comarsion to other local airlines -- has become a disgrace, but it will take a good time more until the Thai populace realizes this.

[ray08]

What don't you like about their ff programme?

I am both a Qantas Platinum and Qatar Gold , was Thai Gold but expired , on both Qatar and Qantas not easy but i have been able to book Business Class redemption , with Thai try and get a BKK - London ,Bkk-Sydney ,even BKK - HG is hard ,with the Qantas , even if showing no seats ,they have certain flights where they put a request and you have a reply very quickly if they can give you a seat ,

Also tried a few times to upgrade my daughter from econ to business on Thai ,again very hard to do ,

[tw25rw]

What don't you like about their ff programme?

I am both a Qantas Platinum and Qatar Gold , was Thai Gold but expired , on both Qatar and Qantas not easy but i have been able to book Business Class redemption , with Thai try and get a BKK - London ,Bkk-Sydney ,even BKK - HG is hard ,with the Qantas , even if showing no seats ,they have certain flights where they put a request and you have a reply very quickly if they can give you a seat ,

Also tried a few times to upgrade my daughter from econ to business on Thai ,again very hard to do ,

I should reach gold on TG in a few weeks.. I stuck with them for the free upgrade and for the convenience going through BKK.. Hopefully, this promised upgrade shouldn't be too hard to redeem.

[Rinrada]

Effective 6 November 2008 the fuel surcharge on all international routes has been reduced by an average of around 30%. The fuel surcharge on THAI’s domestic routes has been lowered to THB 700 from THB 750 per flight.

Knocked off 50 bt a flight. ...must rush out and buy 2 returns quickly....

now last time by not flying Thai I saved £500...so recon..........Nope dont think so...

[Digitalbanana]

Last week my Jakarta TG flight was reduced 4000B from previous month fare, but still twice the price of Garuda and four/five times higher than AirAsia. The TG flight was full tho.

[philipp]

See attached TG's latest fuel surcharge reductions. Effective 06 November 2008.

[geriatrickid]

TG is my only option out of HKT (flight times). If Nok Air had the route I'd take a cramped seat on a spanking new clean plane with decent FA vs filthy out of date TG interiors and useless FAs.

Last flight in business, my B777 seat controls were broken, and I mean broken. Finger plates had been worn out from use.

IMHO Chairman added no value to the company. As much as I hate some of the North American airlines, at least some of the CEO's have tried to show leadership. Maybe if Chairman had the joys of flying some of his routes he'd understand why TG lost my Int'l travel years ago.

[dekka007]

Seems TG has dropped their prices this week to match SQ on the BKKSIN route. Still about 500THB more expensive than SQ. oh and the fare basis on the TG flight accures no mileage unlike SQ.

Credited my mileage on the SQ flights to my TG royal orchid plus account. Bizarre that same price ticket on TG if i flew the same route would not even get the mileage on TG frequent flyers program.

They still don't get it......

the economy food / wine n SQ exceeds the quality of business class food and wine on TG with ease on the BKKSIN run.