February 11th, 2007, 08:33
Airline to hand most domestic flights to budget arm
Thai Airways International (THAI) will transfer most domestic services to its no-frills subsidiary Nok Air and focus on international flights in response to the government's "confused" policy to reopen Don Muang as Bangkok's second international airport. THAI president Apinan Sumanaseni said the board agreed on Thursday to transfer non-connecting domestic flights, which made up the majority of its domestic services, to Nok Air at Don Muang in order to minimise costs of the return of its domestic service to the airport.
Full story (note to TravellerJim - this is how it should be done) and the URL will change tomorrow and will need TLC
http://www.bangkokpost.net/topstories/t ... ?id=116692 (http://www.bangkokpost.net/topstories/topstories.php?id=116692) - link no longer operative
As promised, here is the updated link - http://www.bangkokpost.com/100207_News/ ... news17.php (http://www.bangkokpost.com/100207_News/10Feb2007_news17.php)
Thai Airways International (THAI) will transfer most domestic services to its no-frills subsidiary Nok Air and focus on international flights in response to the government's "confused" policy to reopen Don Muang as Bangkok's second international airport. THAI president Apinan Sumanaseni said the board agreed on Thursday to transfer non-connecting domestic flights, which made up the majority of its domestic services, to Nok Air at Don Muang in order to minimise costs of the return of its domestic service to the airport.
Full story (note to TravellerJim - this is how it should be done) and the URL will change tomorrow and will need TLC
http://www.bangkokpost.net/topstories/t ... ?id=116692 (http://www.bangkokpost.net/topstories/topstories.php?id=116692) - link no longer operative
As promised, here is the updated link - http://www.bangkokpost.com/100207_News/ ... news17.php (http://www.bangkokpost.com/100207_News/10Feb2007_news17.php)