BA flights to Thailand suspended until 2023

[reader]

From The Thaiger

British Airways isn’t heading back to Bangkok until at least next year. Tour operators were hoping the British flagship carrier would be adding regular flights again between Heathrow and Bangkok in time for Thailand’s high season, just when the winter kicks in in the UK.

British Airways was originally set to resume flights in November this year but has now reviewed this decision and made no commitment to restarting services between Heathrow and Suvarnabhumi.

BA says that Bangkok, and Thailand, “is not top of BA’s list for resumption, as it is predominantly low-yield tourist traffic”.

(Low-yield traffic are passengers who are predominantly chasing the lowest fares and spend the least per seat on an aircraft.)

They also cited the “stiff price competition from the Middle East carriers – Qatar, Emirates and Etihad” – who are already flying either daily or multiple fleets per week.

But BA is selling Bangkok flights with a OneWorld partner, with connections in Doha using Qatar Airways.

“We regularly keep our extensive global network under review, and we’ve taken the decision to extend the suspension of our Bangkok service.”

Meanwhile, Thailand will lose another UK connection in August. Budget airline Scoot, which began flying Gatwick-Bangkok-Singapore in March, will suspend services on August 21., But the Singapore-based budget airline says they are planning to return to regular UK – Thailand flights at the end of October. But these flights have not been confirmed at this time and are not currently available for bookings.

Only Thai Airways and Taiwan’s EVA Air offering non-stop services between Bangkok and London’s Heathrow.

[Keithambrose]

21 hours ago, reader said:

From The Thaiger

British Airways isn’t heading back to Bangkok until at least next year. Tour operators were hoping the British flagship carrier would be adding regular flights again between Heathrow and Bangkok in time for Thailand’s high season, just when the winter kicks in in the UK.

British Airways was originally set to resume flights in November this year but has now reviewed this decision and made no commitment to restarting services between Heathrow and Suvarnabhumi.

BA says that Bangkok, and Thailand, “is not top of BA’s list for resumption, as it is predominantly low-yield tourist traffic”.

(Low-yield traffic are passengers who are predominantly chasing the lowest fares and spend the least per seat on an aircraft.)

They also cited the “stiff price competition from the Middle East carriers – Qatar, Emirates and Etihad” – who are already flying either daily or multiple fleets per week.

But BA is selling Bangkok flights with a OneWorld partner, with connections in Doha using Qatar Airways.

“We regularly keep our extensive global network under review, and we’ve taken the decision to extend the suspension of our Bangkok service.”

Meanwhile, Thailand will lose another UK connection in August. Budget airline Scoot, which began flying Gatwick-Bangkok-Singapore in March, will suspend services on August 21., But the Singapore-based budget airline says they are planning to return to regular UK – Thailand flights at the end of October. But these flights have not been confirmed at this time and are not currently available for bookings.

Only Thai Airways and Taiwan’s EVA Air offering non-stop services between Bangkok and London’s Heathrow.

EVA have suspended their flights in July and August due to the cut back on flights from LHR. They resume in September, I hope, as I have a booking on the 15th!

[Keithambrose]

On 7/22/2022 at 8:51 AM, Keithambrose said:

EVA have suspended their flights in July and August due to the cut back on flights from LHR. They resume in September, I hope, as I have a booking on the 15th!

Having said that EVA have suspended their flights to BKK, as I was told, I now see that they are in fact flying several times a week. Indeed, last night the Flight BR 68 to BKK and TPE , scheduled ai 21.35, came over my house!

[PeterRS]

On 7/21/2022 at 5:31 PM, reader said:

British Airways isn’t heading back to Bangkok until at least next year.

As I have to fly to the UK at least once a year, I did take BA once. The daytime 777 was filthy. My seat had not been cleaned and the toilets disgusting. That plus the 8-across business class seating made the entire round trip miserable. I vowed never to use the carrier again on the BKK/LHR route. I later learned that the three 777s that BA rotated on the BKK route were indeed three of their first deliveries. The old days when BA ran 747s as an extension of the SYD/LHR service were vastly better. Instead I took to flying to HKG where I could either take CX or BA's A380. The ticket price initially was cheaper until demand must have eased off for the non-stop service out of BKK and BA started lowering prices.