Thai Airways A350 flying to MEL in July?!
Jul 28, 2016, 3:45 am
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Jul 28, 2016, 5:30 am
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I do not follow the bolded part - can you please explain? (I know it's rather famous in Australia now 
due to one (in)famous politician, but I really do not exactly get what you mean.) I am guessing that there is a party of people on different PNRs? Please be advised, that seat pre-selection is just that. Can be changed by the operating carrier at any time (as has been my experience) and you cannot do anything about it, particularly if on different PNRs.
due to one (in)famous politician, but I really do not exactly get what you mean.) I am guessing that there is a party of people on different PNRs? Please be advised, that seat pre-selection is just that. Can be changed by the operating carrier at any time (as has been my experience) and you cannot do anything about it, particularly if on different PNRs.Exactly this. Especially relevant when equipment changes to this extent.
Jul 31, 2016, 7:59 am
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Jul 31, 2016, 8:46 pm
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Jul 31, 2016, 11:43 pm
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Earlier today, I was doing M&M redemption MEL-XXX-LHR||LHR-BSL||MUC-XXX-MEL for May/June for myself and Mrs, and one of the options LH offered was MEL-BKK-LHR with the MEL-BKK on A350. At the end I went for both outbound and inbound on SQ (still think SQ's business class is superior to TG plus timing was better too), but this indicates that A350 seems to be there to stay - at least at this moment.
Aug 1, 2016, 7:04 am
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Aug 1, 2016, 11:44 am
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Earlier today, I was doing M&M redemption MEL-XXX-LHR||LHR-BSL||MUC-XXX-MEL for May/June for myself and Mrs, and one of the options LH offered was MEL-BKK-LHR with the MEL-BKK on A350. At the end I went for both outbound and inbound on SQ (still think SQ's business class is superior to TG plus timing was better too), but this indicates that A350 seems to be there to stay - at least at this moment.
Aug 1, 2016, 10:06 pm
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The flight times would seem to be against this - ~11.5 hours. With 2 aircraft they get 2 return flights a day to MEL, but only 1.5 to CPH.
Aug 2, 2016, 12:18 am
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In saying that with only 2 A350's it makes more sense to just have them rotating on an easy 1 aircraft per 24 hour rotation route which they can't do to Europe.
Aug 3, 2016, 12:55 am
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Flightaware shows a different record: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/THA465
Last 77W was 7/16/16. Wonder which one to believe..
Last 77W was 7/16/16. Wonder which one to believe..
Aug 3, 2016, 8:22 am
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