Air France reports stable traffic
September 8, 2010 by TTRweekly Staff
Filed under News
BANGKOK, 8 September 2010 – Traffic and capacity on Air France’s Asian network were almost stable registering 0.3 and 0.2% declines in August and a average load factor of 88%, the airline reported Tuesday.
Overall traffic declined by 1.2% for capacity down 0.9%. The load factor remained high at 84.5%, while the group reported it carried 6.5 million passengers in August, down 0.8% over the same month last year.
Unit revenue per available seat kilometre (RASK) continued to improve and was well up on August 2009. Forward bookings for the coming months show a positive trend.
Air Berlin cuts the cost of Euro travel
August 10, 2010 by Rapeepat Mantanarat
Filed under Travel Deals
BANGKOK, 10 August 2010 – Air Berlin has rolled out its latest promotion with a base fare starting at Bt16,990, excluding taxes and surcharges
Tagged “Autumn Special,” the promotional fares are valid out from Bangkok to various European destinations.
Emirates flies to Madrid
August 6, 2010 by Rapeepat Mantanarat
Filed under News
Bangkok, 6 August 2010 – Emirates has inaugurated a daily service to Madrid, the capital city of Spain. Passengers from Thailand change aircraft in Dubai with around a one and a half hour connecting time.
As the Madrid flight departs Dubai at 0725, the best flight out of four daily services ex- Bangkok in order to achieve a seamless connection at Dubai is EK 419 departing at 0240 and arriving at 0545.
Air Berlin sells Autumn fares to Europe
August 5, 2010 by TTRweekly Staff
Filed under Travel Deals
BANGKOK 4 August 2010 ― Air Berlin has rolled out a new promotion called “Autumn Special” for flights ex-Bangkok to various European destinations.
The promotion covers: Berlin; Cologne; Copenhagen; Düsseldorf; Frankfurt; Gothenburg; Hamburg; Helsinki, Karlsruhe; Munich; Nuremberg; Oslo; Paris; Stockholm; Stuttgart; Vienna and Zurich.
This offer starts from Bt16,990 (round-trip fare excluding taxes and fuel surcharge) and is valid for travel period from 1 September to 31 October 2010. Bookings and ticketing have to be made by 31 October 2010. Seats are limited and special conditions apply.
Rail Europe’s first class promotion
August 4, 2010 by TTRweekly Staff
Filed under Travel Deals
Rail Europe has launched a promotional fare for first class travel that will be on sale locally until 27 August, but the travel is open until 31 August.
Rail Europe improves sales support
July 16, 2010 by Duangrudee Somboonruangsri
Filed under Trade Talk
BANGKOK, 16 July 2010 – Rail Europe has appointed Jirapa Sukkham as its first full-time representative to look after the Thai market following her departure from Diethelm Travel, earlier this year.
Rail Europe is a joint venture between French and Swiss national railways (SNCF and SBB) promoting European rail travel in Asia, Australasia, Africa and South America.
Green light for airline tie-ups
BRUSSELS, 15 July 2010 – Europe’s competition watchdog cleared the way for major tie-ups in the ailing airline industry, yesterday, giving green lights to a British Airways and Iberia merger, and a transatlantic alliance.
BA, Iberia and American Airlines agreed last year to team up on flights between Europe and North America in order to cope with soaring fuel costs and falling demand.
The British and Spanish airlines also took a step further, signing a merger deal in April to create one of the world’s biggest airlines to compete more effectively in the fast-consolidating aviation sector.
LH rides out first half storms
BERLIN, 9 July 2010 – German flag carrier Lufthansa said last Friday that passenger numbers had risen by 1.8% in the first six months of 2010 despite a strike and the disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud.
Lufthansa, Europe’s biggest airline by passenger numbers, said in a statement it had welcomed around 27.2 million travellers on board its planes in the period January to June.
For the whole Lufthansa group, which includes Swiss, Austrian Airlines and British firm BMI, passenger numbers were up by more than a quarter.
THAI adds flights to cut queues
April 27, 2010 by TTRweekly Staff
Filed under News
Thai Airways International reports it is continuing to offers flights for stranded passengers as a result of European airspace closure earlier this month.
Today, Tuesday, the airline organised two extra flights to London and Stockholm. The London-bound flight departed at 0210 and inbound flight will depart from London at 1130. The Stockholm flight is scheduled to depart at 1300 and will return to Bangkok at 2030 (local time).
Flights to Europe resume
April 22, 2010 by Rapeepat Mantanarat
Filed under News
Eurocontrol said in its latest release sent out at 1830CET, yesterday, that almost 100% of air traffic should resume throughout Thursday.
The organisation said it expected 22,500 flights to take place late Wednesday and throughout Thursday, signaling the end of the crisis.
European airspace is now open for around 28,000 flights and all trans-Atlantic flights should be operating normally during Thursday.