Jet Airways to BKK - Airliners-India

B772 · Member

Jet Airways to BKK

DELAPPROACH · Member

BKK is a nice addition after they recently added SIN from DEL.

Nice to see 9W finally adding flights to south east asia from DEL.

Will these flights also have a codeshare with QF just like their SIN flights??

Regards,

Mayank

ssbmat · Member

What about BOM-BKK ?

JumboJet · Member

ssbmat wrote:

What about BOM-BKK ?

My sentiments exactly

COUGAR · Member

wots a 73H?

DELAPPROACH · Member

COUGAR wrote:

wots a 73H?

Its a Boeing 737-800 with winglets.

Regards,

Mayank

VABBy · Member

ssbmat wrote:

What about BOM-BKK ?

Thats something even i am wondering. With BOM as their base. I expected BOM-BKK or maybe just CCU-BKK with onward connections to other metros. With domestic market getting too crowded i guess going international is a much safer bet for 9w/ s2 as atleast they wont get any competetion from other players till 2008 atleast.

15A · Recruit

Lack of aircraft i suspect (given that Mum-Bkk must be a 4:40-4:50 run each way). Also Mum-Bkk 9W will face competition not just from TG, AI (1 stop via Del) and IC, but also CX and newly launched Eva Air if i am not wrong.

Plus i am sure 9W will want to consolidate their Bkk operations with these 2 flights.

Any news on whether 9W is converting one of their existing 737-800s to the international configuration or whether this will be one of the new aircraft ?

JumboJet · Member

No Mumbai connectivity would not sound good either.....

Just my 2 cents

COUGAR · Member

I dont think it is purely because of a lack of aircraft. A whole armada of 737's is parked at BOM overnight!

Atleast 2 737-400's li idle from 20:00 to around 6am. Surely one of them can do a quick round trip to BKK?

JumboJet · Member

COUGAR wrote:

I dont think it is purely because of a lack of aircraft. A whole armada of 737's is parked at BOM overnight!

Atleast 2 737-400's li idle from 20:00 to around 6am. Surely one of them can do a quick round trip to BKK?

Now we have a solution

the_380 · Member

its not only aircraft lying at BOM there must be more reasons... maybe 9W wants to start up with 737s from these routes and over time when it breakevens and does quite well on this route it might deploy a wide body on BOM-BKK-BOM route

There has to be a reason... board members at 9W are not kids

COUGAR · Member

Thats what na Avijeet: Sinc eyou have a spare 737 overnighting at BOM, u can start up the BOM-BKK sector with the smaller 737 and then depending on traffic transfer it to the A330.

15A · Recruit

There are 2 problems with that logic

a) Even if the aircraft is parked between 8 PM and 6 AM, it cant do a rotation to Bkk.

Even if it leaves Bom at 21:00, with a flying time of apprx 4:40, it will reach at 3:10 AM (Local time, +1:30 from IST), assuming a turn around in 1 hour, leave Bkk at the truly horrid hour of 4:10 AM and reach Bom at 7:20 AM...too late to catch the early morning round...and with some truly horrendous timings which no business traveller would like...

b) 9W is very proud of its international service running a clearly superior business class product (comparable with what SQ and the like fly..without the AVOD though) in its international flights..for instance, J class on the 737-800Winglets which fly on the international sectors have only 16 seats with 54 inch leg room (Its amazing...having flown it twice..its real luxury). In economy, they have IFE on the international sectors. I am certain they would not want to compromise that by flying an old 737-400 aircraft.

Ideally therefore..they would like to let the new routes settle and start making money on Del Bkk and Ccu-Bkk...I am sure by July of 2007, they will look at starting up Bom-Bkk with a dedicated aircraft..and possibly loop in another city like Blr or Maa in rotation (like they have done Del and CCu with the same aircraft)