Thai Airways' New A340-500

[cdnvic]

These will be making the BKK - LAX and BKK - NYC direct services for Thai.

A shot of the new Royal Silk Class seats.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=9090...RFP&photo_nr=25

cv

[BKK90210]

From what I know

As in the coach class...The new A340 has ACpower underneath your seat only in the first section of the coach class...make sure look into this before you book

[cdnvic]

From what I know

As in the coach class...The new A340 has ACpower underneath your seat only in the first section of the coach class...make sure look into this before you book

Every other seat in Singapore's 340-500's, probably the same in Thai's. Ask at check-in.

cv

[lomatopo]

You can get some more details here , look at the "re-Branding" slides.

In addition to the three A340-500's (BKK-LAX, BKK-JFK, BKK-DME) and four A340-600's (BKK-ZRH, BKK-AKL, BKK-MEL, others?) at least five 747-400's have been refitted with these new Business, aka Royal Silk, class seats. The 747's also get the new First Class seats that are in the A340-600. The A340-500 has business, premium economy and economy, the A340-600 has first, business and economy.

I know the A340-500/-600 has in seat 115 AC power (takes a standard US & Europe 2/3-prong blade/round plug) in business, premuim economy and ecomomy.

(A340-600) Between the seats in the center console for Premium Y, 1 point for every 2 seats except the center where there are 2points for 3 seats.

(A340-500/-600) Between the seats near the floor for Y, 1 point for every 2 seats.

I haven't flown TG in these new seats, I've only flown TG in F, for FRA-BKK twice, with the older generation F seats (14 total, the new config has just 10 F seats). I have trip scheduled early next year which includes BKK-FRA in the new first class, I am looking forward to that trip!