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TG's 2008 Expansion Plans?

BP1 From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 576 posts, RR: 1
Posted (5 years 6 months 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2564 times:

What are the expansion plans for TG in 2008? Do they have any very unique routes that are under served by others and only benefiting TG? (LAX-BKK)

This certainly seems to be an airline to watch.

Cheers,
BP1

"First To Fly The A-380" / 26 October 2007 SYD-SIN Inaugural

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FCKC From France, joined Nov 2004, 2348 posts, RR: 4
Reply 1, posted (5 years 6 months 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2369 times:

Don't know for their expansion plan for 2008 , but in 2008 they will place a large WB and NB order.
Probably BKK-LAX will be an A380 route for them.

VHVXB From Australia, joined Apr 2006, 5517 posts, RR: 20
Reply 2, posted (5 years 6 months 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2331 times:

Quoting BP1 (Thread starter):
What are the expansion plans for TG in 2008?

They are looking at increasing flights to PER and MEL.

6thfreedom From Bermuda, joined Sep 2004, 3267 posts, RR: 21
Reply 3, posted (5 years 6 months 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 2280 times:

Quoting VHVXB (Reply 2):
They are looking at increasing flights to PER and MEL.

PER will increase from 5 to 7pw, most likely 364 seat B773.

MEL will increase from 12 to 14 pw, all B772ER ops.

BNE will have three turnarounds added (most likely B772), and perhaps 4pw via SYD inbound/direct outbound.

Not quite sure what TG will do with overnight service ex-SYD... without the BNE stop, flight will arrive 0300 - 0330... less than ideal for connections!

HUYfan From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 1372 posts, RR: 3
Reply 4, posted (5 years 6 months 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 2208 times:

Is Manchester coming online? The Manchester-Bangkok route MUST be one of the largest markets currently unserved from BKK.

Regards

Mike

Warreng24 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 684 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (5 years 6 months 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1925 times:

Quoting FCKC (Reply 1):
Probably BKK-LAX will be an A380 route for them.

The A380 does not have the range to do BKK-LAX non-stop with any useful payload.

Perhaps, the former TG774 and TG775 will be brought back, BKK-KIX-LAX-KIX-BKK... however I can't see profitability with an A380 and a KIX stop...

AF022 From France, joined Dec 2003, 2092 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (5 years 6 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1750 times:

How is TG doing to JNB?

SFOHORIZON From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 78 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (5 years 6 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1618 times:

Are they really going to add more capacity to the U.S., last we heard, the flights to LAX and NYC were struggling....

EK413 From Australia, joined Nov 2003, 3983 posts, RR: 4
Reply 8, posted (5 years 6 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1616 times:

Quoting 6thfreedom (Reply 3):
Quoting VHVXB (Reply 2):
They are looking at increasing flights to PER and MEL.

PER will increase from 5 to 7pw, most likely 364 seat B773.

MEL will increase from 12 to 14 pw, all B772ER ops.

BNE will have three turnarounds added (most likely B772), and perhaps 4pw via SYD inbound/direct outbound.

Not quite sure what TG will do with overnight service ex-SYD... without the BNE stop, flight will arrive 0300 - 0330... less than ideal for connections!

Just curious if they have added additional capacity for the month on Dec/Jan on SYD-BKK services... Iv noticed the 4 weekly has gone to a daily service... Unless what I witnessed was a delayed service...

EK413

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6thfreedom From Bermuda, joined Sep 2004, 3267 posts, RR: 21
Reply 9, posted (5 years 6 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 1469 times:

Quoting EK413 (Reply 8):
Just curious if they have added additional capacity for the month on Dec/Jan on SYD-BKK services... Iv noticed the 4 weekly has gone to a daily service... Unless what I witnessed was a delayed service...

BKK-SYD is triple daily...
arrival/departure times at SYD and flight numbers below...

TG 991 / TG 992 B744 ARR 2105 DEP 2215 VIA BNE
TG 993 / TG 994 B772 ARR 635 DEP 0855
TG 995 / TG 996 B744 ARR 1300 DEP 1645

All above flights are daily...

Planemanofnz From New Zealand, joined Sep 2005, 1653 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (5 years 6 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 1460 times:

Quoting BP1 (Thread starter):
Do they have any very unique routes that are under served by others and only benefiting TG?

They should fly to DUB. It is hugely under served in eastbound long haul flights. There is quite a large market of travel between Ireland and Australasia with currently only EY offering same airline service. I also believe that BKK is geographically advantaged for such a route because DUB's runway is limited for long haul flights to places like SIN and HKG, but BKK is just in the reach.

Also wondering whether or not TG will swap AKL's 346 for MXP's 772? Seems as if MXP needs more premium seats, while AKL needs more economy seats.

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