Thai airway
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Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (Thai: การบินไทย) is the national air carrier of Thailand, operating out of Suvarnabhumi Airport, and is a founding member of the Star Alliance network. Like Singapore Airlines, Thai offers some of the longest non-stop commercial flights from Bangkok to New York and Los Angeles. Skytrax awarded Thai Airways International 'Worlds Best Cabin Staff' in 2006, while placing second in the 'Airline of the Year' category in 2007, second to only Singapore Airlines.
Travel Classes
Thai has four travel classes: Economy, Premium Economy, Royal Silk and Royal First.
Economy Class
Economy Class is the cheapest class on Thai. Seat pitch on Thai Economy offers passengers up to 36" pitch in selected aircraft with an average of 34" on all aircraft. All Economy seats in Airbus A340-500, Airbus A340-600 and Boeing B777-200ER have individual Audio-Video On Demand (AVOD) In-flight Entertainment (IFE) system. Passengers will be given a choice of Thai or Western meals. Alcoholic beverages are free and served to passengers over the age of 18.
Premium Economy Class
The new Premium Economy Class is only available on inter-continental flights between Bangkok(BKK) and Los Angeles(LAX) or New York(JFK) on Airbus A340-500 aircraft. The fare for Premium Economy Class is slightly higher than Economy but lower than Royal Silk (Business) Class. Premium Economy seating is configured as 2-3-2 rather than the standard 2-4-2 in Economy. Seat pitch is increased to 42", 135 degree angle of recline and the seat features a leg-rest. Premium Economy class passengers also have more choices over their meal selection.
On some long-haul routes such as Bangkok - Copenhagen, Bangkok - Stockholm, aircraft with previous generation Business Class seats are used - therefore the seats are sold under Premium Economy Class fare.
Royal Silk (Business) Class
With higher fares, Royal Silk Class passengers enjoy a number of priorities and luxury not available to Economy Class passengers. This includes dedicated premium check-in facility at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport, dedicated check-in desks at major airports around the world, lounge access, priority boarding, pre-flight champagne, fast track lane for passport control & security-check and priority baggage handling.
The new shell, angled lie-flat business class
PostNuke and PostNukeThai coverage in Bangkok Post
I think most of us probably notice this already that recently (May 8, 2002) PostNuke and PostNukeThai websites have been covered by a Bangkok Post 's (Wednesday) Database section as a comprehensive news coverage. So here I would like to point out to the web article (shorten version) in case someone have not read its paper version. Thai developer makes open source push
Anothern thing that you will miss from the "tree-version" is the handsome picture of the wesmaster. ;-)
I expect the popularity of PN will increase among the Thai popolation, based on the increased article counters at PostNukeThai which we all can see
seats are installed on 12 Boeing 747-400 aircraft, all Boeing 777-200 aircraft and all Airbus A340 aircraft. The pitch is 60" between seats and width is 20". When fully reclined (electrically adjusted) the seat becomes completely flat, however it is angled. The seat can perform lumbar massage. All seats are equipped with AVOD IFE.
There are more choices of main course meal selection in Royal Silk class on international flights, although some may be identical to Economy Class offering. Premium alcoholic drinks are served with a more extensive choices of wine. Port and cheese is served after lunch and dinner.
Royal First Class
The new Royal First Class was introduced with the arrival of the Airbus A340-600. It offers 8 solo flat-beds. Furthermore, THAI's retrofited 12 B747-400s were also equipped with this B/E Aerospace seat which mostly served Europe-Australia and some intra-Asian flights.
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