A catering vehicle clipped the wing of a Thai Airways A380-800 in Paris, forcing an expensive flight cancellation. Perhaps the catering truck that rolled up to the Thai Airways superjumbo jet on Wednesday at Charles de Gaulle (CDG) was...
Thai Airways Fails To Innovate, Loses Big Again
It is no surprise that after promising profits for 2018, Thai Airways ended up losing far more than expected. This is Thai Airways after all, where there remains eternal optimism in king and insanity. While Thailand is still mourning...
Review: Thai Airways 777-200 Business Class Bangkok To Seoul
Thai Airways simply does not offer a competitive business class product on its 777-200. There is no other way to say it. I appreciate the warm service on Thai and thought the meals were decent on this flight, but...
Review: Thai Airways Royal Orchid Spa – Bangkok (BKK)
The Thai Airways Royal Orchid Spa is one of my favorite amenities of any airline lounge in the entire world. Located across the hall from the Royal First Class lounge in Bangkok (BKK), the spa offers complimentary treatments for...
Review: Thai Airways Airways Royal First Lounge Bangkok (BKK)
The Thai Airways Royal First Lounge in Bangkok offers personalized service, a la carte dining, and a quiet oasis from bustling Suvarnabhumi Airport. This review will include photos from my visits over the years…I’ve never reviewed this lounge before and...
Review: Thai Airways A380 First Class Osaka To Bangkok
While it is always fun to try a new A380 first class product, I did not expect such a great flight on Thai Airways…my best overall flight ever with them. After spending about 40 minutes in the Thai Airways...
Review: Thai Royal Orchid Lounge Osaka (KIX)
The Thai Airways Royal Orchid Lounge in Osaka (KIX) is hardly worth showing up early for, but I appreciated the attentive service. After arriving from Guam on United, I proceeded to the transit counter, obtained my boarding pass, and...
Big Trouble For Thai Airways As Losses Double
After the latest fiscal quarter, Thai Airways has much more to wrestle with than unhappy pilots who delay flights when they are denied a first class seat. But it is all connected. Thai Airways just suffered a particularly bad...
Thai Airways Disciplines Staff For First Class Poaching
Thai Airways will discipline two staff members over the first class seating controversy last week that deeply embarrassed the Thai flag carrier. In a statement quoted in the Bangkok Post, Thai Airways President Sumeth Damrongchaitham said: It was found...
Thai Airways Delays Retirement Of 747 Fleet
Thai Airways has indicated it will not retire its remaining fleet of Boeing 747-400 aircraft as quickly as planned. Thai Airways faces both a short-term and long-term problem. On the short-term, half of its 787 fleet (four of eight...
Captain Delays Flight 2.5 Hours When Denied First Class Seats For Friends
Sometimes it is necessary to dig a little deeper. A story is not always what it appears to be on the surface. It’s true. A Thai Airways captain demanded first class seats for his off-duty pilot colleagues on a...
Boeing 747 Skids Off Runway in Bangkok
A Thai Airways Boeing 747-400 skidded off a runway in Bangkok after landing in torrential rains. It’s monsoon season in Thailand, creating fierce storms that pummel the earth with concentrated spurts of rain. Thai Airways flight 679 was approaching Suvarnabhumi...
Man Buys 747, Puts It In Backyard
Imagine this. You go to sleep one night and wake up to find a 747-400 parked in a nearby muddy field the next morning. That’s what happened in Chai Nat, a rural part of Thailand about 200km north of Bangkok....
Review: Thai Airways 747-400 Business Class Tokyo to Bangkok
Not only does Thai Airways have a very uncompetitive business class product aboard its 747-400, it also has one of the oddest seating configurations. My flight from Tokyo Haneda (HND) to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (BKK) was not one of my...
My Worst Business Class Meal Yet…
A late-night flight on Thai Airways out of Tokyo made for a lethal combination when it came to the in-flight meal in business class. That’s the subject of this week’s Meal of the Week. Here’s my question: how long...
Live and Let’s Fly Weekend Digest: July 2, 2017
Greetings from over the Atlantic on a rare overnight westbound flight. The week took an unexpected turn as I found myself on a very quick jaunt to Germany and Jordan. More details on that trip are coming. In the...
The One United Award I’m Booking Before Devaluation
Earlier today I analyzed the upcoming United MileagePlus devaluation coming in November. I noted that awards originating outside the USA are going up in price, but did not go into detail. I’ll go into detail now on one particular...
Tasty Snack on Thai Airways
There are certain things I love about Thai Airways…the first class ground experience being the highlight. Then’s there the onboard food…usually quite forgettable. For this week’s Meal of the Week, I give Thai credit where credit is due. Let...
Thai Airways Reduces First Class + Cuts Madrid, Johannesburg, Moscow Flights — is Los Angeles Next?
Thailand’s flag carrier Thai Airways has struggled financially in the face of fierce regional competition but will escape bankruptcy thanks to a pledge by the Thai government to prop up the ailing carrier. The government has demanded austerity, though,...
Spin-Off of Thai Smile Another Blow to Star Alliance
Thai Airways will spin-off its Thai Smile Air unit into a separate subsidiary that will not participate in Star Alliance. Created in mid-2012 as a low-cost division of Thai Airways, Thai Smile has now obtained its own air operators’ certificate (AOC)...
