Thai Airways in budget-airline talks with Virgin Blue 4 December 2003

Thai Airways International has held talks with Australia's Virgin Blue about setting up a budget airline.

An unidentified Thai Airways source quoted by Brisbane's Courier Mail newspaper said Virgin Blue was one of three potential foreign partners Thai Airways was negotiating with. It expected to conclude a deal in January.

"We are talking with Virgin and also with another two foreign airlines,” the source said. “We should conclude the deal within 30 days from now." He declined to name the other two companies.

Virgin Blue has confirmed it had held talks with Thai Airways but “at this point there’s no proposal on the table nor is anything expected", according to head of commercial David Huttner. The talks come after Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia signed an agreement last month with Thailand's Shin Corp to launch a Thai budget carrier in January.

Source: www.travelbiz.com.au Last Update 8 December 2003

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I assume that they are talking " Domestic " ??-------Bucko

Can you imagine an outfit called "THAIVIRGIN"international or even better "VIRGINTHAI" airways.

If they got together with old Stelios they could all end up being thought of as " fly

"EASYTHAI" whatever ways...

Good for the tourist industry

Can you imagine an outfit called "THAIVIRGIN"international or even better "VIRGINTHAI" airways.

If they got together with old Stelios they could all end up being thought of as " fly

"EASYTHAI" whatever ways

Riradar----Very clever " thoughts " on the name possibilities

Virgin needs Thai International to enable access to the Thai market.

Virgin needs Thai International to enable access to the Thai market.

Yes..but doubt whether they have enough to support this.

a point to note Virgin Blue are looking to fly into Noo Zulland and not aligned with any other carrier. spread the banner in the asia pacific region could be interesting.

The Virgin Air thingy hit the Australian Stock Exchange a few days ago.

Can you imagine an outfit called "THAIVIRGIN"international or even better "VIRGINTHAI" airways.

If they got together with old Stelios they could all end up being thought of as " fly

"EASYTHAI" whatever ways...

Good for the tourist industry

Would they have special-offers for first-time flyers ?

Or a frequent-flyer MILE-HIGH card ??