THAI boosts Asian routes, but cuts Europe
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Thai Airways International (THAI) will add extra capacity on several Asian routes this summer, but at the expense of flights to destinations in Europe.
Unveiling its summer schedules for 2014, which run from late March to late October, the airline said it would boost flights to Bali from five per week to daily and its Colombo route from six weekly flights to daily. There will also be one extra weekly flight to both Chongqing and Hyderabad, taking the total frequencies to four and five flights per week respectively.
Several European flights however, will be cut this summer. The key route from Bangkok to Frankfurt will be reduced from six to five weekly flights, while the services to Copenhagen, Stockholm and Zurich will all be reduced from daily to six flights a week, and the route to Oslo will be cut from daily to five flights per week. The seasonal services connecting Phuket with Copenhagen and Stockholm will be suspended.
THAI’s Bangkok-Moscow service will fall from six to five weekly flights, but the route to Madrid will increase from three to four flights per week.
Elsewhere in the Asia Pacific region, the daily Brisbane service will be cut to five flights per week, the Islamabad route will fall from four to three weekly flights, and the services to Sendai and Luang Prabang will be suspended for the summer.
THAI emphasised that the schedule changes were “normal seasonal adjustments” and not due to the political unrest currently impacting tourism in Bangkok.
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