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Oct 3, 2015 | 9:12 am

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Originally Posted by Creole Spirit

I am quite sure that all those mentioned aircraft won't disappear so easily - they (hopefully) won't easily risk to be forced to give-up the double daily Samui flights and - please imagine - there are quite a few people who like the "old Jumbos" B747's.....
Let's wait and see.....

Hasn't stopped CX from dropping 744s (with a great F product). Hasn't stopped LH from dropping 744s (which had a pretty fanstastic F product). Why would it stop TG if they're getting more fuel-efficient planes to replace them and they're losing money with their current operation using 744s?

And to be honest, the TG longhaul C product on their 744s is well behind the times (not remotely close to lie-flat), so it's not like this is a catastrophic downgrade in premium classes.

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