Hello everybody.

Thai Airways has changed its Birthday action for its Frequent Flyers Gold members. Instead of an upgrade, now you can redeem miles for International travel at half the normal rate for travel starting in the month of your birthday and the month before and after.

This means that for the same amount of miles you can fly Royal First instead of Economy, or even if you donтАЩt have a lot of miles, book economy and you just need half the normal amount. This is only applicable to Thai operated flights.

I would presume quite a few of the board members come to Thailand often and thus are at Gold Level with ThaiтАЩs FFP. Personally I am a big fan of ThaiтАЩs Royal Orchid Plus. ItтАЩs really amazing how easily you can get exactly what you want when it comes to free flights or upgrades. Try this with any US-based company!

Anyway it might be useful to know this new policy just to plan ahead.