Thai Air buys 3 new A340-600

regi · Post by **regi** » 19 Sep 2005, 23:31

Thair Air just ordered 3 new A340-600 planes.
Some thoughts: didn't the PM of Thailand connect the european ban on thai shrimps with the order of planes from Airbus?
3 new A340's, nice order and enough to silence the Airbus haters and B777 lovers.

Vinnie-Winnie · Post by **Vinnie-Winnie** » 19 Sep 2005, 23:45

Thought they had financial problems!

yagoceron · Post by **yagoceron** » 20 Sep 2005, 09:20

Great the 340 looks very nice in the new Thai colours.

bigjulie · Post by **bigjulie** » 24 Sep 2005, 18:16

Heres a couple of pics from a.net :
www.airliners.net/open.file/927781/L/
www.airliners.net/open.file/927843/L/

PS. I really like that first photo with the main gear on the ground & the nose gear way up high

:laugh:

yagoceron · Post by **yagoceron** » 25 Sep 2005, 10:32

First one looks unreal

teach · Post by **teach** » 25 Sep 2005, 11:26

Thai has NOT ordered three additional A340-600s. Their total orders still stand at 6 -600s and 4 -500s.

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 25 Sep 2005, 18:13

THAI received the two A340-600 aircraft in June and August 2005 respectively and will receive another three aircraft of this model from Airbus by the end of the year 2005, which will complete the order for five aircraft under the A340-600 aircraft type.

remains of a previous order looks like

Source: Thai website.

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 27 Sep 2005, 11:22

I agree with Yagoceron. The first picture is not realistic. Am i right here!

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 27 Sep 2005, 11:40

Why is it not realistic? Take-off or landing, taken at the right moment, why not.. With a digital camera, taking a whole sequence of pictures, and picking out the best one is easy.

yagoceron · Post by **yagoceron** » 27 Sep 2005, 11:50

I was just saying that because it looks so perfect.

At no point I was implying it wasn't real but it really looks too perfect to be true

bigjulie · Post by **bigjulie** » 01 Oct 2005, 23:45

They are both good shots no matter!

MSYYZ · Post by **MSYYZ** » 20 Oct 2005, 18:17

Thai Airways International announced it plans to sell 4 Douglas MD11 in early 2006. These aircraft are used on routes from Bangkok to Australia, Milan and Zurich and are expected to be replaced with Airbus A340-600s.
They will also reduce US service as it is not happy with the performance on these routes. On Dec 1st it will reduce the frequency on its Bangkok to New York route from 6 to 4 flights a week while cutting Bangkok to Los Angeles from 4 to 3 flights a week however that flight will go nonstop instead of via Japan. Thai will also revise its Bangkok-Auckland-Sydney route on the same date into a daily Bangkok-Auckland and daily Bangkok-Sydney service.

DAT202D · Post by **DAT202D** » 20 Oct 2005, 21:46

Vinnie-Winnie wrote:Thought they had financial problems!

Who said Thai Airways had any financial problems?? If you say things like this you should tell us your source.

Grtz
Long live Thai

Vinnie-Winnie · Post by **Vinnie-Winnie** » 20 Oct 2005, 22:17

DAT202D wrote: Who said Thai Airways had any financial problems?? If you say things like this you should tell us your source.

Well here for example: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/ ... 61/1/.html

You might tell me that everyone suffers at the moment, but look at their balance sheet on their website and it's unfortunately not that good either!

Cheers

Vincent

DAT202D · Post by **DAT202D** » 21 Oct 2005, 00:22

I understand what you mean but that doesn't mean they are in financial problems. My opinion is, an airline can make losses but that doesn't mean it cannot pay it's expenses. The thing is, Thai is currently reforming it's strategy to make sure the balance get's atleast even again.

For me, an airline in financial problems is like Delta, Alitalia, etc..

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 21 Oct 2005, 00:27

jan_olieslagers wrote:
MSYYZ wrote:Thai Airways International announced it plans to sell 4 Douglas MD11 in early 2006.
and who is going to buy these antiques?
even Bangladesh Biman is acquiring more modern stuff!

They will probably be converted to freighters.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » 21 Oct 2005, 00:49

jan_olieslagers wrote:
MSYYZ wrote:Thai Airways International announced it plans to sell 4 Douglas MD11 in early 2006.
and who is going to buy these antiques?
even Bangladesh Biman is acquiring more modern stuff!

Uhm... Since when is an MD11 antique? They are immensly popular airplanes with Finnair, KLM, Lufthansa (Cargo), UPS, FedEx, ...
DC9's for example as an antique, now that's debatable, but any NWfan would argue against you...

CX · Post by CX » 21 Oct 2005, 08:17

I mean even if you have financial problems, you can't halt your plans to get efficient planes to generate more revenue than old planes...

n5528p · Post by **n5528p** » 21 Oct 2005, 08:38

Buzz wrote:Uhm... Since when is an MD11 antique? They are immensly popular airplanes with Finnair, KLM, Lufthansa (Cargo), UPS, FedEx, ...

Absolutely right, especially cargo airlines love it. LH Cargo even looked into the MD-11s of AZ, but decided not to buy them. I am pretty sure they will at least have a look at them. And of course there is Finnair, AFAIK the only carrier expanding its MD-11 pax fleet.

Bernhard