Kingfisher Airlines to start services to Bangkok

Kingfisher Airlines plans to start its scheduled daily services from its base in Bangalore to Bangkok in March, using Airbus A321 jetliners, as a part of its seven new overseas destinations that it intends to introduce this year. To be known here that only a few carriers have made their way to the airport of Bangkok post the seizure of the airports by the People’s Alliance for Democracy.

Kingfisher has set up an office in Bangkok. The company has appointed Success Aviation, a Thai travel agent, as its general sales agent to provide ground handling services at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Phunchan Tanavatsatiend, chief executive of Success Aviation, said Kingfisher over time intended to add three routes to Bangkok from Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi. Those are the routes on which the bulk of air traffic between Thailand and India is moving.

Kingfisher will be targeting premium-class passengers on its new Thailand-India flights and will compete directly with Thai Airways International, and two other Indian carriers, Jet Airways and Air India.