It's Sunday, and it's time to return to some sort of schedule as we have this weeks airplane art. This week, resting in the morning sunshine is a Thai Airways Boeing 747-400 at London Heathrow Airport Terminal 3. The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for your desktops! More airplane art next week! Want to keep up with … [Read more...]
Thai Airways update 787 operation plans
Thai Airways is slowly getting ready to receive its Boeing 787 Drea,liners, and introducing them to its network. The good news is that reservations are open for these flights now. The two routes have been confirmed as Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to Perth Airport (Australia) Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to Tokyo Narita (originally Haneda, now switched to Narita) The timetables … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Thai Airways International A330 Runway Excursion at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi
Breaking news from Airline Reporter and AVHerald that a Thai Airways International Airbus A330 has suffered a runway excursion on landing at Bangkok. According to AVHerald: A Thai Airways Airbus A330-300, registration HS-TEF performing flight TG-679 from Guangzhou (China) to Bangkok (Thailand) with 287 passengers and 14 crew, landed on Bangkok's runway 19L at … [Read more...]
Safety Video Saturday – Thai Airways A380
It's Saturday again, so it’s time to stow your tray tables, ensure your luggage is in overhead compartment and put your seat into the upright position as we go to this week’s safety video. This week, it's Thai Airways International presenting their A380 safety video - as Canadian Kilometres watched (and paid attention as well when the plane he was aboard had a bit of … [Read more...]
Thai Airways prepares to introduce double A380’s on Bangkok to Tokyo route…
Thai Airways is preparing to shift its 2/3's of its Bangkok to Tokyo services to us Airbus A380's a good month and a bit earlier, with a new start date of 27th October 2013 (instead of 1st December). The new time-table looks like this: Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - Tokyo Narita TG676 DEPART BKK 08:00 ARRIVE NRT 15:50 A380 TG640 DEPART BKK 22:35 ARRIVE NRT 06:15+1 A380 … [Read more...]
Thai Airways cancels A380 operations to London
Thai Airways has formally cancelled plans to operate their new Airbus A380's between Bangkok to London Heathrow. The aircraft was due to be deployed on the run from the 1st December to operate one rotation of the two Thai fly. The delay has been put down to the fixes that are being applied wing ribs to Thai's new aircraft - the faults dating to 2012. As aircraft reach the … [Read more...]
Safety Video Saturday – Thai Airways A380
It's Saturday again, so its time to place your seats in the upright position, stow your table, ensure footrests are down and your seatbelts are fastened as its time for this weeks safety demonstration This week, it's Thai Airways International with their Airbus A380 Safety Video (which was forwarded to me by one of my regular readers - Andrew). Next week - something … [Read more...]
Thai Airways takes delivery of its first Airbus A380
Thai Airways International has today taken delivery of its first Airbus A380 at Toulouse. This makes Thai the 9th operator to fly the A380, with their first aircraft called "Si Rattana" - or Majestic Jewel. Images - Airbus SARL. Thai has a total of six A380's on order configured in a 507 seat layout of: 12 in Royal First Class (configured as pitch of 83 … [Read more...]
Thai Airways set to get their first A380 on 27th September
I've done my fair share of chatting about the 787 - lets switch to the other "new" jet in the sky - the Airbus A380, and in particular, Thai Airways. Thai Airways is due to take delivery of their first Airbus A380 on the 27th September, and will be starting to put them into service extremely quickly on the 6th October, operating from Bangkok to Hong Kong and … [Read more...]
A380 Watch: Thai Airways International’s first bird rolls out of the paint shop
Lets have some nice pictures to start the week. Airbus has rolled out the first fully painted Thai Airways International A380 out of the paint shop, and she is looking "mighty fine" as some would say. Images - Airbus S.A.R.L. For those of you watching Thai's A380's like a hawk for redemptions, the works news is good with painitng of the plane and installation of … [Read more...]
