BKK-AKL moves to 77W from 01 Sep 17
 

Thai Airways International on Friday (27JAN17) continued to adjust summer 2017 operation, effective 26MAR17. Planned operation as of 27JAN17 as follow.

Bangkok – Auckland eff 01SEP17 777-300ER replaces 777-200ER, 5 weekly

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/...as-of-27jan17/

yes finally a 77W on the BKK-AKL route. been waiting a long time for this but it'll still be a 777-200 on my BKK-AKL sector in April :(

Waaaaaay better! Flat beds in business class with direct aisle access!

So what route is it coming off?

brussels and london by the looks of it. those two routes are going to be operated by the A350.

Nor my trip next week! And I have no planned long-haul back to NZ until Jan next year.

why can't they start from June :( it's going to a huge diff stepping off an A380 from LHR onwards to AKL

Finally! I was really thinking about moving away from TG after so many years of the horrid angle seats. Traveling with them again in September and now really looking forward to it. I hope they do not change the equipment again though.

Hope they don't take it off ZRH now

certainly not! they would first take it from some other destinations in Europe, where they have to sell some J as premium economy seats

I am just hoping they do not remove F from Sydney flights in Dec this year

With my BKK-AKL flight on Sept 2, can I expect to have the 77W? How hard is the Sept 1 date?

Expert Flyer is showing 77W from 01 Sep, so the 77W has been loaded into online systems. Who knows if this will actually happen or not. Good luck.

As it will appear from threads in this forum, TG is very good at changing a/c last minute and without warning. You will not know until you step into the a/c wheter you have been "TG'ed" or not.

I echo the good luck.

The A350 BKK-MEL has been on/off for months now. Don't hold your breath

You are right that they are selling the business class seats as Premium Economy in some markets. But to be honest the price of the seats are so high that they might as well be sold as Business class. I tried to do a search from ZRH-BKK and CPH-BKK out June 8 and back June 22 the business class ticket was 2500€ from ZRH and 2950€ from CPH even though the flights last just about the same time. The PE seat was 2235€ from CPH so when you add less service cheaper food i guess that thai takes home just about as much from a PE flight from Copenhagen as a business Class ticket from Zurich.

But if you are using miles it is a great deal. I just upgraded a K class ticket to PE CPH-BKK for 25.000 miles. No other Premium Economy product offer this value. But if i were to buy the ticket directly i would rather take a stopover with finnair in business for only 2 extra hours and 100€ less than Thai PE.