Originally Posted by
marcusf
I recently had a conversation with a long time UA employee who indicated that management is intending to return to BKK maybe in the next year. There is a lot of demand from measure travelers and very little direct service from mainland USA.
There is no direct (non stop) service from anywhere in the USA to Thailand. The only non stop in recent times was Thai (LAX-BKK) on the gas guzzling A340-500, and that was ended in 2014 IIRC.
Presumably “measure travelers” means leisure travelers. And leisure travelers don’t make money for full service airlines. I was 100% successful on GPUs to BKK when United flew there on W fares; that doesn’t point to good paid J yields.
I woukd love to have UA return to BKK but I just don’t see it happening. So like others I look for W or P fares to close by countries (HKG) or cheap interline P fares with partners (SFO-ICN-BKK connecting to OZ). There are more lucrative routes out there to pursue, as the new IAD-TLV shows.