{"id":17440,"date":"2013-10-01T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/thai-airways-in-multi-tier-push\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T06:20:00","slug":"thai-airways-in-multi-tier-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/10\/thai-airways-in-multi-tier-push\/","title":{"rendered":"THAI Airways in Multi-Tier Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-vbrvcjA7Amg\/Ukppy4TEH0I\/AAAAAAAAiq4\/9adE-K2n76w\/s1600\/Ker-thai_8216-757431.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-vbrvcjA7Amg\/Ukppy4TEH0I\/AAAAAAAAiq4\/9adE-K2n76w\/s320\/Ker-thai_8216-757431.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p>by Roderick Eime in Bangkok  <\/p>\n<p>Thai Airways International President,  Mr Sorajak Kasemsuvan, reinforced the international full-service  long-hail carrier&#8217;s intention to expand operations while addressing  media at the opening of Incentive Travel and Conventions Meetings  Asia (IT&#038;CMA) in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;2013 has been a remarkable and  challenging year for THAI, with our management and staff across the  company having worked very hard in all areas to improve our product  and service standards, as well as developing new markets,&#8221; said Mr  Kasemsuvan.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated the focus on new  destinations such as Sapporo (Japan) for THAI which will increase  from four to seven weekly flights as well as wholly owned regional  carrier THAI Smile heading to Chonqing and Changsha in China as well  as recently announced route to Macau.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth A380 will arrive this month and  lift passenger numbers to Narita (Tokyo) while THAI Smile will gain  two A320-200s and one B777 aircraft for regional and short-haul  international routes. These acquisitions reflect the airline&#8217;s  strategy for meeting expected growth.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kasemsuvan also reminded the  assembled journalists that THAI Smile will shortly become an entity  in its own right with formal approval being granted for corporate  separation. The airline will shortly obtain its own two-letter code  and staff will no longer rotate between the two airlines. While Mr  Kasemsuvan could not confirm the adoption of the Star Alliance or  Royal Orchid Plus membership benefits under the new format, he  conceded the tie-in was &#8216;probable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Although THAI was not currently  servicing the Low Cost Carrier (LCC) market directly, Mr Kasemsuvan  hinted that co-operation with 49 per cent THAI owned Nok Air was  likely to increase in the near future. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Roderick Eime in Bangkok Thai Airways International President, Mr Sorajak Kasemsuvan, reinforced the international full-service long-hail carrier&#8217;s intention to expand operations while addressing media at the opening of Incentive Travel and Conventions Meetings Asia (IT&#038;CMA) in Bangkok. &#8220;2013 has been a remarkable and challenging year for THAI, with our management and staff across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,19,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itcma13","category-thai-airways","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}