Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus - short notice equipment changes to "old" B744 on longhaul routes to Europe

old B744 with 14 F /50 C / 325 Y going to be in operation on following flights:
(as per local TG office):

TG920/21 Jun and TG921/22 June (Thu/Fri)
TG924/925 on 21, 23 & 24 June (Thu, Sat & Sun)

and also very frequently on flights between Bangkok and Roma/Madrid

(this thread is aimed for mutual information and should be continued)

Thank you for the heads up.
Too bad these negative equipment changes still happen, but hopefully these 747 all series will soon be retrofit .
Hopefully .

Munich flight (TG924/925) is seeing the old cabin again today.....mad:

where can you see this? the flight has not yet departed (so not on flightradar...)

where can you see this? the flight has not yet departed (so not on flightradar...)

The old 747 configuration is showing in the GDS seat maps displays on those flights.

The old 747 configuration is showing in the GDS seat maps displays on those flights.

And everyone can access this?

Thank you for the heads up.
Too bad these negative equipment changes still happen, but hopefully these 747 all series will soon be retrofit .
Hopefully .

I do hope that they get rescheduled as freighters VERY soon ;)

Looking at TG brochure (time table), they have 4 different 744 versions. That is fun.

And everyone can access this?

Any site that shows a real-time seat map would display it.

I was scheduled to fly TG924 BKK-MUC yesterday, connecting the following day on LH MUC-FRA-IAD in F (UA award). About 24hrs prior to departure, seatmap changed to reflect an old-style 747. The nonstop to FRA (TG922) was showing F0 and a full seatmap. United showed F award availability on the daytime LHR flight (TG910) but after 40 minutes on hold UA agents were unable/unwilling to make a flight change inside 24hrs.

When I arrived at TG's BKK Royal First check-in, the agents apologized and offered to switch me onto the nonstop FRA flight (TG922) in F due to the equipment swap! ^ I'm not sure if they were protecting availability on this flight just for me - or if someone had cancelled within the previous hour. Excellent ground service in BKK and probably the best inflight service I've received in the past year (including on SQ, CX, NH, JL). Also, more time to enjoy the FCT the following morning! So - at least for me - the MUC 747 equipment swaps don't always have a sad ending. This was also my first time flying long-haul TG - I was very impressed overall!

-FlyerBeek

Any site that shows a real-time seat map would display it.

Any suggestions of sites where i can have a look at this?

Any suggestions of sites where i can have a look at this?
A subscription to expertflyer.com is well worthwhile.

I was scheduled to fly TG924 BKK-MUC yesterday, connecting the following day on LH MUC-FRA-IAD in F (UA award). About 24hrs prior to departure, seatmap changed to reflect an old-style 747. The nonstop to FRA (TG922) was showing F0 and a full seatmap. United showed F award availability on the daytime LHR flight (TG910) but after 40 minutes on hold UA agents were unable/unwilling to make a flight change inside 24hrs.

When I arrived at TG's BKK Royal First check-in, the agents apologized and offered to switch me onto the nonstop FRA flight (TG922) in F due to the equipment swap! ^ I'm not sure if they were protecting availability on this flight just for me - or if someone had cancelled within the previous hour. Excellent ground service in BKK and probably the best inflight service I've received in the past year (including on SQ, CX, NH, JL). Also, more time to enjoy the FCT the following morning! So - at least for me - the MUC 747 equipment swaps don't always have a sad ending. This was also my first time flying long-haul TG - I was very impressed overall!

-FlyerBeek

Impressive of TG. You can consider yourself very lucky :) But good for you. Trip Report soon?

it always seems to affect the Munich route: again here on 19. July.....

Any suggestions of sites where i can have a look at this?

Expertflyer is a great resource, also if you have access to a GDS like AMADEUS it will work too.

Otherwise, for day-of-departure information you can try flight24.com and search by flight number, which will reveal registration. For example, here is TG920 BKK-FRA, today operated by HS-TGT, a current-generation F bird:

http://data.flight24.com/flights/TG920

Look like SYD/BKK on 23 JUL is old 747. So disappointing.

TG 414 SIN-BKk on July 17 switched from A346 to A300

Quick question: Which 744s (registrations would be perfect) have the old F and which ones the new F?

We (gf and myself) are looking to get on the BKK-MUC flight sometimes during the week of Jan 28, 2013 and obviously, we'd prefer the new F.

Thanks in advance!

I thought I heard that all the 747 was re-configured to new F and C. But yesterday an email came my way saying that TG had changed the aircraft for my upcomming BKK-HKG flight to the old version.

Anybody know what the status is on the re-configuration of the 747's?

747 All Series still very old config.
First new 747 AS is scheduled to arrive in 7 days (serving BKK-NRT)

Thanks for that ffyer1, are they all being refitted at DMK

"TG reveals brand new F suites" - thread says:

TG A,B,F,G,Y,Z will get new F (and already have received new C and Y (?)).

4 birds (with current F, old (?) Y and current (?) C) will leave the fleet.

The remaining 10 747 v3 with current F,C (and at least 6 of them with new Y) will stay as they are.

it always seems to affect the Munich route: again here on 19. July.....

and again: tomorrow 29.July between BKK-MUC-BKK the old-fashioned cabins!
:(

and again: tomorrow 29.July between BKK-MUC-BKK the old-fashioned cabins!
:(


if you're lucky it might be the all new TGY... in this case I want a trip report :D

if you're lucky it might be the all new TGY... in this case I want a trip report :D

seatmap shows 14 F . poor buggers, at least it's a day flight

seatmap shows 14 F . poor buggers, at least it's a day flight

An ALL DAY flight. ;)

MUC route is currently swapping to old A/C quite frequently

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30.8 BKK-ZRH. Booked in C so for me the equipment swap from A346 is not a big deal.

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30.8 BKK-ZRH. Booked in C so for me the equipment swap from A346 is not a big deal. Hey, on this day I'm booked on the flight back, ZRH-BKK...what a coincidence :)

Well, but so far it looks like TG changed to one of the newer B747 according to the seatmap. Hope it stays this way, First would be a bummer if not :o

Hey, on this day I'm booked on the flight back, ZRH-BKK...what a coincidence :)

Well, but so far it looks like TG changed to one of the newer B747 according to the seatmap. Hope it stays this way, First would be a bummer if not :o

Any other dates with equipment change ZRH-BKK or BKK-ZRH?
I'm flying on the 21st and 28th this month.

TG924/925 / 9.Nov BKK-MUC-BKK switched to very old equipment again (14First; 50 non reclinable C-seats).

That sucks! I hope that doesn't happen to me on Nov 29th:(

TG924/925 / 7.Jan BKK-MUC-BKK switched to very old equipment again (14First; 50 non reclinable C-seats).

TG924/925 / 24.May: BKK-MUC-BKK switched to very old equipment again (14First; 50 non reclinable C-seats).:td: