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Last stranded passengers fly home

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BANGKOK, 4 March 2019: Thai Airways International has now cleared a backlog of 4,000 passengers who were stranded when flights over flying Pakistan were suspended 27 February.

The airline confirmed the last of the stranded passengers departed Bangkok on flights to Europe late Sunday evening.

It took the airline just over three days to clear the lines of passengers stranded at Suvarnabhumi airport, after Pakistan closed its air space amidst military hostilities with India that resulted in the downing of an Indian fighter aircraft.

THAI president, Sumeth Damrongchaitham, confirmed the airline deployed additional flights to evacuate as many as 4,000 passengers stranded at Suvarnabhumi Airport between the evening of 28 February and March 4.

The airlift included two special flights to London and Moscow that departed Friday 1 March 2018 carrying 1,512 passengers.

THAI arranged special flights to and from Frankfurt, 2 March and operated flights to London with larger aircraft on Sunday 3 March, capable of carrying 696 passengers in order to speed up repatriation of stranded passengers.

On the London route the aircraft was up-sized from a Boeing 777 to an Airbus A380, for flights to London, 3 March, carrying 1,014 passengers.

By operating special flights on 1 and 2 March and upsizing aircraft, 3 March THAI transported most stranded passengers to their destinations in Europe with the remaining 200 passengers joining early morning flights 4 March.

Flights to Europe resumed in full on 28 February on an air path through China, but THAI flights to Pakistan remain grounded.

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