USVirgin Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 That certainly would be more realistic, but I doubt it would have made the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon46 Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Now that the price of oil is 50% less than its all time high in July 2008, perhaps Thai Airlines was premature in cancelling their non-stop flight from New York. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngfarang Posted October 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 How much were the tickets for the nonstop flight from JFK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Premium Economy was around US $1550.00 or thereabouts. Economy was less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchapstick Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 You could start by looking here Why do you bother posting? It was more fun that typing UTFSE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngfarang Posted October 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Dam it's 300 dollars cheaper to stop in Narita, or Incheon for a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchapstick Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Daddy will be so proud of you ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Just booked my RT flight BKK>Chicago>BKK Booked on ANA this time so will give it a try. Leaves at 2330 from BKK, stops at Narita, Japan for a few hours and then on to Chicago, arriving 0800. 55,000 baht. I could have taken China Air for 51,000 but the route sucked, with stops in Taipei and LAX, added too many hours to the already long flight (travel time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngfarang Posted October 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Were you neglected as a child? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchapstick Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 Now that the price of oil is 50% less than its all time high in July 2008, perhaps Thai Airlineswas premature in cancelling their non-stop flight from New York. The problem has really been with the A345. It did not come close to the performance specs that airbus had projected. To make the ultra-long-haul routes, it needed to carry far less payload. Thus fewer, lighter seats (goodbye F class, hello premium economy), and no cargo capacity. Even when TG was running JFK-BKK with pretty impressive load factors (reported to be above 80%), they were still losing money hand over fist. SQ reportedly was also losing money ... don't know how they are doing now that they have converted their A345's to an all-Business Class configuration. The only reason TG is still running the LAX flights is they could not dump the A345's at anything close to book value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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