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Thai operate from its main hub at Suvarnabhumi Airport and secondary hub at Phuket International Airport, the airline serves 40 international destinations using a fleet of 46 aircraft, that consist of wide-body aircraft from both Boeing and Airbus, while the subsidiary Thai Smile operates narrow body aircraft. As of 2013, services between Bangkok and Los Angeles were served via Incheon International Airport near Seoul. Thai’s route network is dominated by flights to Europe and Asia, though the airline serves two cities in Oceania. Thai was the first Asia-Pacific airline to serve Heathrow Airport.
Thai initiated a program entitled “The Most Hygienic In-Cabin Environment Program” with an emphasis on air quality, surface cleanliness, and food safety. The program includes removal of all in-flight disposable materials after flights, sterilization and fumigation of all cabin equipment, and inspection of the air-circulation system. A special audit process is also carried out for the cleaning and sanitization of aircraft systems by a team of specialists. Thai was the first airline to install hospital-grade air-filter True HEPA, capable of intercepting up to 99.99 per cent of dust particles and microorganisms on every flight. These measures are applied to the entire Thai fleet.
The team’s “first task” is to deliver more tourists to 55 “second-tier” provinces. AOT, which operates Thailand’s six international airports, will invest 220 billion baht in infrastructure to increase airport capacity from 2018’s 80 million passengers to 185 million in ten years. KTB’s contribution to the effort consists of creating new payment solutions for tourists and ramping up travel promotions. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will assist the team by creating a new campaign, “More Local”, to drive tourism to less visited corners of the nation.
In 2008, after achieving profitability for the previous 40 years, Thai recorded a loss for the first time in its history of around 21 billion baht (US$675 million). Thai’s need for reform became evident in the first decade of the 21st century, but reforms, when they came, were invariably cut short. As of Q2 2009, after a series of restructuring initiatives, including a two-year deferral of its Airbus A380 deliveries, the carrier returned to a net profit of 2.5 billion baht. The airline blamed high fuel costs and Thailand’s political turmoil.
