Thursday, July 10, 2008

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Bangkok Airways Safety demo

Bangkok Airways Safety demo

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Bangkok Airways plane landing at Ho Chi Minh city

Bangkok Airways plane landing at Ho Chi Minh city

Comfortable landing at Ho Chi Minh city airport on an Airbus 319 from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport.

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Bangkok Airways

Bangkok Airways Co., Ltd. is a regional airline based in Bangkok, Thailand. It operates scheduled services to 20 destinations in Thailand, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam. Its main base is Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok

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History Bangkok Airways Co., Ltd.

History Bangkok Airways Co., Ltd.

The airline was established in 1968 as Sahakol Air operating air-taxi services under contract from OICC, an American construction company, USOM and a number of other organisations engaged in oil and natural-gas exploration in the Gulf of Thailand. It began scheduled services in 1986, becoming Thailand's first privately-owned domestic airline. It re-branded to become Bangkok Airways in 1989. The airline is owned by Dr Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth (92.31%), Sahakol Estate (4.3%), Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (1.2%) and other shareholders (2.19%). It has 1,903 employees and also wholly owns subsidiary airline Siem Reap Airways[1].

It built its own airport on Koh Samui, which was opened in April 1989 and offers direct flights between the island and Phuket, Hong Kong and Singapore. The airline opened its second airport at Sukhothai Province in 1996. A third airport was built in Trat Province, opening in March 2003 to serve the burgeoning tourism destination of Ko Chang.

The airline made its first foray into jet aircraft in 2000, when it started adding Boeing 717s to its fleet. Up until then, Bangkok Airways had flown propeller-driven aircraft, primarily the ATR-72. It had also operated the De Havilland Canada Dash 8, the Shorts 330 and for a short time, a Fokker F100. The carrier added another jet, the Airbus A320, to its fleet in 2004.

Bangkok Airways plans to order widebody aircraft as part of its ambition to expand its fleet. It wants to add its first widebody jets in 2006 to serve longer-haul destinations such as London, India and Japan and is looking at Airbus A330, Airbus A340 and Boeing 787 aircraft. In December 2005, Bangkok Airways announced it had decided to negotiate an order for six Airbus A350-800 aircraft in a 258-seat configuration, to be delivered to the airline commencing 2013

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Bangkok Airways serve the following

China

* Guilin (Guilin Liangjiang International Airport)
* Hong Kong (Hong Kong International Airport)
* Macau (Macau International Airport)
* Shenzhen (Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport)
* Xi'an (Xi'an Xianyang International Airport)

Japan

* Fukuoka (Fukuoka Airport)
* Hiroshima (Hiroshima Airport)

South Asia

* Malé (Malé International Airport)

Southeast Asia

* Ho Chi Minh City (Tan Son Nhat International Airport)
* Luang Prabang (Luang Prabang International Airport)
* Pakxe (Pakse Airport)
* Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh International Airport)
* Siem Reap (Angkor International Airport)
* Singapore (Changi International Airport)
* Yangon (Yangon International Airport)

Thailand

* Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi Airport) - main hub
* Chiang Mai (Chiang Mai International Airport)
* Ko Samui (Samui Airport) - focus city
* Krabi (Krabi Airport)
* Pattaya (U-Tapao International Airport)
* Phuket (Phuket International Airport)
* Sukhothai (Sukhothai Airport)
* Trat (Trat Airport)