Thai adds LHR flights

[dick turpin]

Thai Airways International plans to ramp up services to key European destinations, and will cut back underperforming services to Italy and the US.

The Thai flag carrier will add an extra daily flight to London Heathrow from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International from Oct. 25, using a two-class Boeing 777-300ER to complement the airline’s existing daily Airbus A380 service. This will bring the flight schedule to 14X-weekly offering to the UK capital.

Thai will also increase the frequency of its Bangkok-Frankfurt service by six flights a week, again using new 777-300ERs to add to an existing daily Airbus A380 service.

Thai Airways’ existing 2X-daily service between Bangkok and Delhi, currently using both Airbus A330 and Boeing 777 aircraft, will add a new late-night Boeing 787-8 service to bring a total of three flights per day between the two cities.

However, the carrier is to stop all US-destination flights from the same date, with the withdrawal from its 4X-weekly 777-200 Suvarnabhumi-Los Angeles route. It will also axe its 4X-weekly Bangkok-Rome service from the same date.

Thai says the changes will help it toward $250 million-plus savings in operating costs that are aimed at bringing the airline back into profit by 2017. The carrier pledged earlier this year to cut overall passenger seat numbers by 15% by end-December 2015.

[robertthebruce]

All good news for sure, as i do like to fly ''Thai Airways'', good service and there flat bed Buisness Class seat is a bonus..

last time i flew with them, they were offering ''Paid Upgrades'' from ''cattle class'' to ''Business Class'' has anyone ever upgraded, if so, what kind of price did they ask ??, as it might be worth my while, in future, just buying a ''Cattle Class'' ticket and upgrading at the Airport ??? just a thought..

[sandyf]

They can add more flights but they still have to fill them. I have just booked a return to LHR and Thai fare was 82K for the 2 of us, I went with EVA at 60K.

BA was 85K with the airline or £1095 through a UK agent.

[South]

Return next week with Emirates, 30k ..... Thai 62k

Edited October 15, 2015 by South

[craigt3365]

All US destination flights? LOL There is only one! That flight was way too long and way too expensive compared to other options. They desperately need to become more competitive price wise.

[meatboy]

All good news for sure, as i do like to fly ''Thai Airways'', good service and there flat bed Buisness Class seat is a bonus..

last time i flew with them, they were offering ''Paid Upgrades'' from ''cattle class'' to ''Business Class'' has anyone ever upgraded, if so, what kind of price did they ask ??, as it might be worth my while, in future, just buying a ''Cattle Class'' ticket and upgrading at the Airport ??? just a thought..

SEEMS LIKE A NOT VERY NICE BLOKE calling people that travel economy "CATTLE"

[JMS]

My return business class flight LHR-BKK was £1615 with tax and my mates economy ticket £466 return. No changes allowed but very cheap compared to others

[KittenKong]

My return business class flight LHR-BKK was £1615 with tax and my mates economy ticket £466 return. No changes allowed but very cheap compared to others

Business class LHR/BKK/LHR tickets are always available for just over GBP1200 return, and occasionally for as little as GBP1000 or less. Not with non-stop airlines, admittedly.

[Upnotover]

All good news for sure, as i do like to fly ''Thai Airways'', good service and there flat bed Buisness Class seat is a bonus..

last time i flew with them, they were offering ''Paid Upgrades'' from ''cattle class'' to ''Business Class'' has anyone ever upgraded, if so, what kind of price did they ask ??, as it might be worth my while, in future, just buying a ''Cattle Class'' ticket and upgrading at the Airport ??? just a thought..

From the UK website.....

Economy class to Royal Silk class one way upgrade from London to Bangkok from GBP 620 per person plus any additional governement tax.

[robertthebruce]

All good news for sure, as i do like to fly ''Thai Airways'', good service and there flat bed Buisness Class seat is a bonus..

last time i flew with them, they were offering ''Paid Upgrades'' from ''cattle class'' to ''Business Class'' has anyone ever upgraded, if so, what kind of price did they ask ??, as it might be worth my while, in future, just buying a ''Cattle Class'' ticket and upgrading at the Airport ??? just a thought..

From the UK website.....

Economy class to Royal Silk class one way upgrade from London to Bangkok from GBP 620 per person plus any additional governement tax.

[uptheos]

Return next week with Emirates, 30k ..... Thai 62k

Currently Air China LHR - BKK with 1.5 hour stopover in Beijing 330 quid about 18,000 baht.

And for you people out there who pretend to fly at the pointy end, it's worth considering.

My niece and her B/F just did it and they said it was a breeze.

But of course they weren't bursting their pants to get to Pattaya ASAP

Edited October 15, 2015 by uptheos

[KittenKong]

Currently Air China LHR - BKK with 1.5 hour stopover in Beijing 330 quid about 18,000 baht.

And for you people out there who pretend to fly at the pointy end, it's worth considering.

My niece and her B/F just did it and they said it was a breeze.

I fly at (or near) the pointy end of the plane.

I do so because I dont fit comfortably in the seats in the back end of the plane, except if I have several of them to myself. I cant rely on this happening.

I only fly once a year and it is entirely a pleasure and shopping trip, so why not spend the money on a lie-flat seat? If I wanted to save the money I just wouldn't go at all. It would be much cheaper to get my relatives to buy my teabags and Marmite and to post it to me by courier.

[smokie36]

Two class?

Sniff....I'll stick with other airlines then.

[rocketboybkk]

Not news. Announced ages ago

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[rexgraves]

Thai adding an evening flight is good news. I arrived on Eva from Heathrow yesterday and have never known the flight so full. I am not prepared to travel economy or have a stopover so paid around £1000 as always, I travel once a year, I was surrounded by upgraded economy passengers. Nothing wrong with the flight but it is galling to be made a fool; the business class must have felt the same. I won't change airlines on a whim but next year it will be good to have a choice now that Eva have screwed up.

[RabC]

Thai adding an evening flight is good news. I arrived on Eva from Heathrow yesterday and have never known the flight so full. I am not prepared to travel economy or have a stopover so paid around £1000 as always, I travel once a year, I was surrounded by upgraded economy passengers. Nothing wrong with the flight but it is galling to be made a fool; the business class must have felt the same. I won't change airlines on a whim but next year it will be good to have a choice now that Eva have screwed up.

I believe the reasons that EVA and BA are full to London is the lack of the second Thai flight, once that returns hopefully some of the loading will transfer back to Thai. I flew BKK-LHR on Sunday on EVA and the whole aircraft was packed, it didn't seem to make a difference to the quality of service in Business.

[rocketboybkk]

No sure I agree as every time I've flown EVA it's always full I think down to cost. Also, the EVA & BA flights have transit passengers from Tapei & Oz so they've got extra from the start.

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[RabC]

No sure I agree as every time I've flown EVA it's always full I think down to cost. Also, the EVA & BA flights have transit passengers from Tapei & Oz so they've got extra from the start.

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BA haven't flown from Aus via BKK for a very long time and up until this year there were normally 6 or more empty seats in EVA business class to/from LHR, this is from a regukar traveller on this route.

[rocketboybkk]

They have because I flew that route in March 2014.

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[SheungWan]

My return business class flight LHR-BKK was £1615 with tax and my mates economy ticket £466 return. No changes allowed but very cheap compared to others

Business class LHR/BKK/LHR tickets are always available for just over GBP1200 return, and occasionally for as little as GBP1000 or less. Not with non-stop airlines, admittedly.

In your dreams.

[KittenKong]

My return business class flight LHR-BKK was £1615 with tax and my mates economy ticket £466 return. No changes allowed but very cheap compared to others

Business class LHR/BKK/LHR tickets are always available for just over GBP1200 return, and occasionally for as little as GBP1000 or less. Not with non-stop airlines, admittedly.

In your dreams.

Not at all.

Royal Jordanian are currently selling business class LHR/BKK/LHR for GBP996.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premium-fare-deals/1715857-rj-lhr-bkk-996-j-787-all-legs.html

[IMA_FARANG]

All good news for sure, as i do like to fly ''Thai Airways'', good service and there flat bed Buisness Class seat is a bonus..

last time i flew with them, they were offering ''Paid Upgrades'' from ''cattle class'' to ''Business Class'' has anyone ever upgraded, if so, what kind of price did they ask ??, as it might be worth my while, in future, just buying a ''Cattle Class'' ticket and upgrading at the Airport ??? just a thought..

SEEMS LIKE A NOT VERY NICE BLOKE calling people that travel economy "CATTLE"

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Quite a few years ago, when I worked in Saudi Arabia, part of my annual vacation package was a travel ticket yearly. I used to pick Bangkok as my company supplied ticket.

It was always "economy" class fare which I often upgraded to a Business class ticket.

To upgrade, if seats are available, you just paid the difference in the fare between the economy fare and a business class fare.

Thai International, at that time , was still partnered with SAS from Denmark, and their flight attendants were trained by SAS

in Copenhagen. Good service and pretty young Thai flight attendants.

But that was before Thai international went cheap with their service and at the same time raised their fares.

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But that was before Thai

[RabC]

My return business class flight LHR-BKK was £1615 with tax and my mates economy ticket £466 return. No changes allowed but very cheap compared to others

Business class LHR/BKK/LHR tickets are always available for just over GBP1200 return, and occasionally for as little as GBP1000 or less. Not with non-stop airlines, admittedly.

In your dreams.

Not at all.

Royal Jordanian are currently selling business class LHR/BKK/LHR for GBP996.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premium-fare-deals/1715857-rj-lhr-bkk-996-j-787-all-legs.html

Agreed its classed as business but once you've had the hassle of negotiating a layover in some foreign land its just an enhanced cattle class to me.

[KittenKong]

Agreed its classed as business but once you've had the hassle of negotiating a layover in some foreign land its just an enhanced cattle class to me.

I dont know about that. In 40 years of flying I've never needed to negotiate anything anywhere.

It's the wide lie-flat seat I'm mostly interested in. And the food and lounges and extra baggage allowance.

[SheungWan]

My return business class flight LHR-BKK was £1615 with tax and my mates economy ticket £466 return. No changes allowed but very cheap compared to others

Business class LHR/BKK/LHR tickets are always available for just over GBP1200 return, and occasionally for as little as GBP1000 or less. Not with non-stop airlines, admittedly.

In your dreams.

Not at all.

Royal Jordanian are currently selling business class LHR/BKK/LHR for GBP996.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premium-fare-deals/1715857-rj-lhr-bkk-996-j-787-all-legs.html

I will stand corrected though I would like to hear that somebody has managed to book it.

Edited October 27, 2015 by SheungWan

[OMGImInPattaya]

My return business class flight LHR-BKK was £1615 with tax and my mates economy ticket £466 return. No changes allowed but very cheap compared to others

Business class LHR/BKK/LHR tickets are always available for just over GBP1200 return, and occasionally for as little as GBP1000 or less. Not with non-stop airlines, admittedly.

In your dreams.

Not at all.

Royal Jordanian are currently selling business class LHR/BKK/LHR for GBP996.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premium-fare-deals/1715857-rj-lhr-bkk-996-j-787-all-legs.html

Probably Sri Lanken and Khazak Air as well I would imagine. No thanks.

[KittenKong]

I will stand corrected though I would like to hear that somebody has managed to book it.

Apparently people in that thread have. The other day on RJ's site there were dates still available in January (it doesnt interest me as it's the wrong time of year).

I've also seen occasional similar offers from other airlines. Thai were even selling first class return tickets for around GBP1000 about a year ago, though that may have been a glitch.