New flights strengthen Thailand’s status as global aviation hub

[webfact]

New flights strengthen Thailand’s status as global aviation hub

 

Photo: Thai Airways

 

Great news for globetrotters as more new flights to Thailand are launched

BANGKOK: -- Five international airlines are expanding air access to Thailand with new flights from Beijing, Doha, Istanbul, Maldives, India’s Jaipur and Tiruchirappalli, and Singapore, strengthening the Kingdom’s status as a global aviation hub.

 

The new flights offer visitors greater convenience and more choice for point of entry when travelling to and from Thailand.

Scheduled flights to be added or recently started service during 2017 include:

 

Starting 27 March, this year, Thai Airways International has launched its ‘Phuket Express‘ service with four direct weekly Beijing to Phuket flights.

 

Since June 1, this year, Qatar Airways has operated flights from Doha to Bangkok five days a week. The increased frequency, along with its double-daily Phuket flights and the five-month-old Krabi operations (four weekly flights), increase Qatar Airways departures from Thailand to Doha to 53 flights per week.

 

Turkish Airlines launched its Istanbul to Phuket direct service on July 17, 2017, starting with four weekly flights that will increase to daily during this coming winter. The airline started the Istanbul-Bangkok return service in 1989 and currently operates 14 flights per week.

 

Low-cost carrier Thai AirAsia will add daily Maldives flights from Bangkok to Male starting on August 11, using Airbus A320 aircraft. The airline is also expanding its services to India with the Bangkok-Jaipur and Bangkok-Tiruchirappalli routes, each with four flights a week, starting on September 29. The airline operates from Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport.

 

Another low-cost carrier Jetstar Asia will add four weekly flights from Singapore to Hat Yai return from 3 November, 2017, using 180-seat Airbus A320 aircraft. Bookings are currently available for purchase in Singapore.

 

Mr. Yuthasak Supasorn, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said, “Thailand has long been the key portal to Asia and a global aviation hub. Steady passenger growth depends on more flights and finding new entry points to the country. These new flights provide visitors with more choice, flexibility and convenience when travelling or making connections to major cities around Thailand. We hope that the expanded air access boosts tourism arrivals.”

 

He added, “TAT has also signed a series of Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with major international airlines aimed at strengthening tourism cooperation and boosting the number of visitor arrivals to Thailand.”

 

TAT recently inked MOUs with EVA Air to work on joint tourism promotion strategies for the US and Canada markets; with Etihad Airways to jointly promote travel to Thailand from the UAE, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Egypt, and Kuwait; with Qatar Airways for travellers from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and Singapore Airlines’ important inbound markets including Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/Travel_log/30323278

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-15

[bdenner]

35 minutes ago, webfact said:

“TAT has also signed a series of Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with major international airlines aimed at strengthening tourism cooperation and boosting the number of visitor arrivals to Thailand.”

Just tell em all to bring a plastic bag to piss in!

[Lingba]

well if this doesn't take the cake

 

[Dobredin Ghusputin]

54 minutes ago, webfact said:

work on joint tourism

 

TAT's smoking some of those already.

[colinneil]

Great news for Thailand, airlines increasing flights here.

More and more people flying here.

Only fly in the ointment is immigration, they cant handle the flights coming in now, so increasing flights will increase the chaos at immigration.

So next time there is a serious delay for people getting in, immigration already have their excuse !! those pesky airlines are to blame !!

[ExpatOilWorker]

Meanwhile, THAI Airways is bleeding money. 

Did they ever get the Air Operator Certificate Recertification after being  red flagged from ICAO and the downgraded by the FAA?

 

http://aviationweek.com/awincommercial/thai-airways-sinks-loss-second-quarter

[steven100]

Good news for Thailand and it's tourism. This is evidence that Thailand continues to move forward and further develop it's economic stability within the region, with ongoing contracts such as the Bombardair monorail, China-Thai HSR, Nth Thailand highway expansion, and many more.

Well done Thailand, and well done Khun Prayuth Chan O Cha.

[binjalin]

Global Aviation Long Queue Hub  

[ezzra]

The thing is that none of the big bosses and the immigration guys and gals

have to spend long time in those lines when they fly in or out the country from obvious

reasons, had they and their families have to endure those queues things

would have been better... but the magic wand was waved the other day and

200 more of them have materialized from thin air ready for work...

[Pdaz]

Global Hub of queues, slow immigration clearance and poor business class lounges 

[spidermike007]

The questions that come to mind are, since Thailand is becoming an ever increasingly more important "global hub", and the airports are getting busier and busier, what is this fabulously noble, visionary, competent, honest, and benevolent government doing to enhance the tourist experience here? What are they doing to improve the airports? To increase the lounge areas? To improve the roads, transportation, infrastructure, to simplify the visa process, and to beef up the immigration staff? And what are they doing to enhance traffic and public safety? And what are they doing to improve the performance of the police and related officials?

[Ulic]

The obvious question is have they informed immigration yet.

[Dave67]

Th flight from Doha ends in Hanoi it stops in Bangkok

[KIWIBATCH]

41 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The questions that come to mind are, since Thailand is becoming an ever increasingly more important "global hub", and the airports are getting busier and busier, what is this fabulously noble, visionary, competent, honest, and benevolent government doing to enhance the tourist experience here? What are they doing to improve the airports? To increase the lounge areas? To improve the roads, transportation, infrastructure, to simplify the visa process, and to beef up the immigration staff? And what are they doing to enhance traffic and public safety? And what are they doing to improve the performance of the police and related officials?

Nothing...!!!

[hansnl]

5 hours ago, bdenner said:

Just tell em all to bring a plastic bag to piss in!

Or maybe alert immigration?

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Does that mean that Qatar has shelved plans for a flight to Chiang Mai?

 

In all of the flights listed I see a lot of Phuket, and few other places.   Soon Chiang Mai will be a small backwater again.

[gummy]

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

Good news for Thailand and it's tourism. This is evidence that Thailand continues to move forward and further develop it's economic stability within the region, with ongoing contracts such as the Bombardair monorail, China-Thai HSR, Nth Thailand highway expansion, and many more.

Well done Thailand, and well done Khun Prayuth Chan O Cha.

And you got paid for writing this piece of total rubbish or,

 

you have family associated with the Junta and their backers or

 

You are living on another planet ?

 

Because clearly you are not living in the reality of what is called Thailand with a military backed dictatorship in power

 

or else you are just trolling

Edited August 15, 2017 by gummy

[joecoolfrog]

8 hours ago, gummy said:

And you got paid for writing this piece of total rubbish or,

 

you have family associated with the Junta and their backers or

 

You are living on another planet ?

 

Because clearly you are not living in the reality of what is called Thailand with a military backed dictatorship in power

 

or else you are just trolling

And the answer is.....trolling !

[Jonmarleesco]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Great news for globetrotters as more new flights to Thailand are launched

Well, the extra 200 immigration BiB sent to Swampy and DM will soon be swamped.