Originally Posted by
Mr. Vker
I believe-and its all speculation-when it comes to Thai Airways, they have exclusively wide bodies. (Never have seen a narrow body.)
They run their wide bodies on varying length international. From shorter hops to intercontinental. Those flights tend to fill. During the layover periods when they would normally sit, they run them on the short intracountry flights. Thus you will fly for an hour on a 747 to Phuket etc.
Thai also has ancient 734's with awful seats they run on some intra-asian and domestic runs (I have flown them to USM and VTE). Also, Thai is opening Thai Smiles (it's open already actually) as a low cost carrier (but still part of TG) with an all narrowbody fleet.