Thai airlines warm to Iran, Russia

**Kurgen** · 18-06-2016, 04:43 PM

BANGKOK -- Charamporn Jotikasthira, president of Thai Airways International, announced on Wednesday that the national airline plans to open a Tehran service and resume flights to Moscow it discontinued in March last year.

The Tehran route will start in October three times weekly, and Moscow will resume in November with four flights each week.

"The people there are wealthy and very sophisticated," Executive Vice President Teerapol Chotichanapibal told reporters about Iran. He said a team that went to Tehran returned "really excited" about prospects. The flag-carrier is in good company with budget airline Thai AirAsia X inaugurating its Tehran route later this month.

As for Moscow, Charamporn said reduced competition had been key to reinstating the service. "Rivals who are low-cost already closed down their businesses," he said, leaving only full-service carriers. He added that Russians tend to travel east rather than west for tourism and business. "Now the main destination for Russia is Thailand," he said.

According to Thailand's ministry of tourism, Russians accounted for 3% of total inbound tourists with some 884,000 arriving last year.

Thai airlines warm to Iran, Russia- Nikkei Asian Review

**Kurgen** · 18-06-2016, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by Kurgen

"The people there are wealthy and very sophisticated," Executive Vice President Teerapol Chotichanapibal told reporters about Iran. He said a team that went to Tehran returned "really excited" about prospects.

Arse licking twat

**aging one** · 18-06-2016, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by Kurgen

He said a team that went to Tehran returned "really excited" about prospects.

Kickbacks seem to have been exchanged.

**taxexile** · 18-06-2016, 05:01 PM

"

The people there are wealthy and very sophisticated,

east of the danube it is rare to find a person who is both wealthy and sophisticated.

in thailand it is virtually impossible.

**BobR** · 18-06-2016, 09:52 PM

The real question is can they meet Iranian and Russian safety standards?

**Ratchaburi** · 18-06-2016, 09:57 PM

Well how many thai airway flight have gone down

**Kurgen** · 19-06-2016, 08:30 AM

are they banned from US airspace yet?

**Neverna** · 19-06-2016, 10:41 AM

How much?

And how easy/difficult is it to get visas to Iran and Russia?

**BobR** · 19-06-2016, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by Kurgen

are they banned from US airspace yet?

You call it, between the time the American FAA inspected them, and the time the report was made public, Thai announced they would no longer be flying to the USA because of "excessive competition". No Thai airline now flies in American airspace. A face saving withdrawal.

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**wasabi** · 19-06-2016, 09:24 PM

It'll be great for Iranians to visit Thailand, they will relish the experience of being away from their repressive country and its religious police.

**Kurgen** · 19-06-2016, 11:12 PM

So, they have been officially downgraded, fuck flying with them again, whoever cheap.

**BobR** · 20-06-2016, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by Kurgen

So, they have been officially downgraded, fuck flying with them again, whoever cheap.

Cheap? When they were flying to the US, first non-stop then later though Seoul they were almost always the most expensive and if not they were close.

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