Saturday, July 22, 2017

Thai Airways announces Vienna nonstop

Thai Airways has officially announced that it will be launching new nonstop services to VIE-Vienna, Austria effective 16NOV17. Flights shall be operated 4 times per week using a 292 seater B777-200ER. 

The schedule is as follows:

Days: 1/4/6/7

TG 936 Dep BKK 0130 Arr VIE 0700
TG 937 Dep VIE 1330 Arr BKK 0520+1

In 2016, the P2P demand between BKK and VIE was 114,000 pax and 3 airlines operate this sector nonstop i.e. Austrian, Eva Air and now Thai Airways. 

Friday, July 21, 2017

Sydney increased by Qatar Airways to double daily nonstop

Qatar Airways has officially published on the GDS system that it shall be increasing its presence in Australia with the addition of a new second daily nonstop service to Sydney airport from Doha. This new flight will extend onwards to the capital city i.e. CBR-Canberra using a Boeing 777-300ER. 

The new flight will be operated effective 12FEB18 and the schedule is as follows:

Days: Daily
Aircraft: B777-300ER

QR 906 Dep DOH 0810 Arr SYD 0615+1
QR 906 Dep SYD 0725 Arr CBR 0825

QR 907 Dep CBR 1345 Arr SYD 1445
QR 907 Dep SYD 1555 Arr DOH 2230

The above schedule offers good two way connections via DOH to Europe, GCC, UK and selected African points which will further spread out QR's pax demographic profile on board its SYD bound services.