National airline will not be allowed to declare bankruptcy
Jan 30, 2015, 1:10 am
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Jan 30, 2015, 1:23 am
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Well, since UAL increased the miles for TG F class from the US I did a trip under the old rate of 70k in F one last time, Did the 747 from LHR to BKK and just got off the A380 in NRT. I have to say being at BKK for an 8:00am flight was made so much easier by the 1 hour massage I got. the FAs are always amazing and my flt to NRT was no exception. TG is a great airline IMHO.
It will be sad if they lose a lot of their F class. I was surprised about DPS-BKK. Did this routing in June and it was full both ways.
It will be sad if they lose a lot of their F class. I was surprised about DPS-BKK. Did this routing in June and it was full both ways.
Jan 30, 2015, 5:46 am
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2 class 77W. So at least the J class will be an improvement.
Try http://airlineroute.net/category/thai/ ...and be sure to check regularly.
Try http://airlineroute.net/category/thai/ ...and be sure to check regularly.
Finally no more horrible 170 degree angled seats! I hated those!
Thanks
GJ
Jan 30, 2015, 6:20 am
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Jan 30, 2015, 11:10 pm
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Jan 30, 2015, 11:18 pm
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yes thanks! that's why I was whining! F on A340-600 with the old chairs was still miles ahead of the J on the new 777-300ER. and there is also a risk of a airplane swap to the normal 777-300 with its terrible 2-3-2 angled flat seats in J
Jan 30, 2015, 11:22 pm
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By the way, can you imagine the number of Scandinavian visitors to TH during during winter time if TH was only a 2 hour flight away?
I guess the number of visitors would probably be 10 times higher (but is just my less qualified guess 
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Jan 30, 2015, 11:32 pm
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As far as I know the 777-300 were never used for the European flights - only the 777-200ER (which also has angled flat seats anyway)
Jan 31, 2015, 1:20 am
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It is like comparing apples and pears...Obviosuly, a short 2 hour flight rather than 10+ hours from Sweden makes a big difference. I dont know the number of visitors from SIN to say France or Italy but I guess it is significantly lower than the number of Swedish visitors (and much lower than the number of Swedish vistors to TH).
on the other side Western visitors to Thailand often think that they are the largest group of visitors but in fact more arriving tourists are coming from Asia
But European tourists stay of course in average longer; many Scandinavians during the whole winter. There are many "Scandinavian villages" in Thailand...
Jan 31, 2015, 2:48 am
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I do not think that you see as many Chinese in Phuket anymore. And Russians are dropping too because of their currency, but that is recent. Recent Statistics would be interesting.
Jan 31, 2015, 4:55 am
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I only have stats up to Oct 14 (for Thailand as a whole) comparing the same months in 2013 but Russian arrivals were at 1.2 million (up 3.2% on 2013). To put that in context, that's more than UK & German arrivals combined - a huge number of people, and I am surprised there is not a premium market for TG to tap into.
Chinese arrivals were over 3 million, but that was a 17% drop over 2013 arrivals for the same months.
ASEAN arrivals were significantly down. If Madrid's being cut it's not surprising with Spanish arrivals being about 16% of those from the UK.
Jan 31, 2015, 10:27 am
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It will be interesting to see how that flow is affected by the oil glut and its effects on the Russian economy.
Jan 31, 2015, 6:24 pm
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Many tourists from Asian countries, in particular from China, Korea and Japan come with group tours or on a package tour. Often they stay at mid to low end hotels, which focus on those type of tourists. Only a minority relax at beaches, group tours have a tough program to maximize the return from 3-5 days stay in Thailand. So they are probably not so visible like the average Western tourist, who visit a couple of days Bangkok or Chiang Mai and spend then 10 or more days at the beach.