New Airline - Flights From And To Frankfurt Main Exclusively !

[yermanee]

Check it out !!! A new kid on the block operating out of Don Muang.

Momentarily only flights from and to Frankfurt airport.

Price economy 648 €

Website : http://www.thairairline.com/

According to website flights to and from Phuket coming soon.

Yermanee

[beano2274]

looks an interesting option to FRA, just checked prices for 3 adults in April got a price of 1944Euros total.

[Ricardo]

Interesting, a 11-13 hour flight on a B737-400, should be cosy !

Wonder where & how many refuelling-stops they will need ?

[tolsti]

Their fleet statement says 777 for long-haul with engineering at Don Muang. Sounds like a pie-in-the-sky start up to me.

[fstarbkk]

"...serving our passengers with two legendary Boeing 737-400"

In the context of modern air transport, words like legendary, classic or historic do not inspire confidence IMO.

I suspect that, as soon as they have signed up enough pax, they will quickly sign a wet-lease with one of the usual Chinese carriers and slap their logo on the old buckets.

[yermanee]

Interesting, a 11-13 hour flight on a B737-400, should be cosy !

Wonder where & how many refuelling-stops they will need ?

With a range of about 3.500 Km that would be 2 stops.

But I doubt they would use these aircraft.

Anyway guys, plse don't shoot the messenger.

Yermanee

[ignis]

Interesting, a 11-13 hour flight on a B737-400, should be cosy !

Wonder where & how many refuelling-stops they will need ?

With a range of about 3.500 Km that would be 2 stops.

But I doubt they would use these aircraft.

Anyway guys, plse don't shoot the messenger.

Yermanee

Stops ?? it says 2 non stops flight a week to Frankfurt from DM

[yermanee]

Interesting, a 11-13 hour flight on a B737-400, should be cosy !

Wonder where & how many refuelling-stops they will need ?

With a range of about 3.500 Km that would be 2 stops.

But I doubt they would use these aircraft.

Anyway guys, plse don't shoot the messenger.

Yermanee

Stops ?? it says 2 non stops flight a week to Frankfurt from DM

That's why it can't be with a B737-400 they don't have the range.

Yermanee

[Ricardo]

Interesting, a 11-13 hour flight on a B737-400, should be cosy !

Wonder where & how many refuelling-stops they will need ?

With a range of about 3.500 Km that would be 2 stops.

But I doubt they would use these aircraft.

Anyway guys, plse don't shoot the messenger.

Yermanee

Sorry, didn't mean to give that impression !

The website says they hope to add a B777, but doesn't say it will be from the start, when the two B737-400s are their fleet.

I've flown on an old charter-configuration DC8 from Stockholm to Gambia, and know that UK charter-airlines used to run B757s to Goa and the Maldives (both needed a refuelling-stop along-the-way), but DMK-FRA would be even longer on a narrow-body jet.

Hope it works for them anyway.

[beano2274]

On the website under Fleet it does specify a 777-200ER.

Also wonder where they purchased the 737-400's from?

[asanee]

to beanO; enlighten your knowledge, hardly ANY airline buys planes-they are all leased.

BTW; for april/may/early june it is very easy to get returns, ex-FRA, to BKK, at very short notice too, for around 555-in decent and good airls, sometimes even on TG. Thats the usual slowest time of all seasons. used to be 499-but those times seem to be over. Also a little less in nr around september. Which makes it no deal at all. Check trabber.de or fly.de

[yermanee]

Have found some other news regarding this airline.

Apparently they will start operations on December 19th this year with 2 weekly flights return to Frankfurt.

What's interesting to note is that they advertise the same price for FRA/DMK as for DMK/FRA which I believe is fairly unique.

It also seems they have their office in place at DMK terminal 1 and are recruiting staff, and the flights would be on a B777 (leased).

Anyway the dearth of publicity is not a good omen and I hope it's not a repeat of the Phuket Airlines story.

That's it for the moment. Awaiting further developments.

Yermanee