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New Airline "R Airlines" Starting Flights DMK-FRA?  
User currently offlineLH422 From Germany, joined Sep 2010, 278 posts, RR: 0
Posted (7 months 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 2690 times:

Has anyone heard of this airline that is said to be starting services DMK-FRA in December?

http://www.thaiflights.de/top-oct12.htm

It says that they will be operating 2 737-400, 2 777-200ER and 1 767-300ER.

I like their slogan

"R Airline's like a cupcake, not sweet without you.
You're the reason we fly.
Thank you for joy us."  

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User currently offlineFlyingFan18 From United States of America, joined Apr 2012, 68 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (7 months 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 2623 times:

Never heard of the airline but their slogan gave me a smile. Is it an LCC? Seems cheap no?

User currently offlineThomas_Jaeger From Switzerland, joined Apr 2002, 2266 posts, RR: 31
Reply 2, posted (7 months 2 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 2390 times:

This is the successor of Sunny Airways: http://www.ch-aviation.ch/portal/airline.php?cha=UNN

They also had announced BKK-FRA and then never operated the route. They had a B767-200ER for some time, did operate some but very few charter flights and then the aircraft was apparently repossessed by the lessor. Now the next try again with a strange name.

Now we have U Airlines and R Airline in Thailand, just missing S Airways and T Air  .


Swiss aviation news junkie living all over the place
User currently offlineLH422 From Germany, joined Sep 2010, 278 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (7 months 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1862 times:

Quoting Thomas_Jaeger (Reply 2):
Now the next try again with a strange name.

I'll keep my fingers crossed. It would seem to me they would be a good candidate for the first airline to launch long-haul operations ex HHN.

User currently offlineB777LRF From Luxembourg, joined Nov 2008, 998 posts, RR: 3
Reply 4, posted (7 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1779 times:

So not FRA-BKK, but rather HHN-DMK? Catering to the bucket-and-spade brigade, I would imagine, hardly the most lucrative of markets. Still, wish them the best of luck.


From receips and radials over straight pipes to big fans - been there, done that, got the hearing defects to prove
User currently offlinebennett123 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 6357 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (7 months 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1518 times:

http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/stats.main?id=93

Given the number of B737-400, (473) less however many have been broken up already, I suspect that this is a short term solution.

Furthermore, many of those remaining must be getting pretty elderly.

User currently offlineLH422 From Germany, joined Sep 2010, 278 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (7 months 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1505 times:

Quoting B777LRF (Reply 4):
So not FRA-BKK, but rather HHN-DMK?

No, that was just my mind wandering. I thought if they don't use the main airport in Bangkok (DMK instead of BKK) they might as well not use the main airport in Frankfurt (HHN instead of FRA). However, the announcement was for DMK-FRA.

It seems they'd have to rely on cooperating with some German tour operator and operate it as sort of a charter flight. For those customers, it probably wouldn't matter much if it was FRA or HHN. Since they don't have any feeder flights in Germany, the parking options at HHN might actually be a bonus to those not arriving by train.

User currently offlinedebonair From Germany, joined Jan 2004, 2098 posts, RR: 4
Reply 7, posted (7 months 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1274 times:

Quoting LH422 (Thread starter):
Has anyone heard of this airline that is said to be starting services DMK-FRA in December?

http://www.thaiflights.de/top-oct12.htm

Never seen something like this before: ALL TICKETS ARE INCLUDING A TRAVEL INSURANCE FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION! Seems they didn't trust themselves...  Wow!

User currently offlinetwa@fra From Germany, joined Nov 2000, 131 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (7 months 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1222 times:

The aircraft shown on the top of their homepage looks like it has a Star Alliance logo next to door one ......
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