Thai LCC, Nok Air, starts Bangalore-Bangkok service
16 May 2007
Bangalore: Thailand's low-fare airline, Nok Air, has chosen Bangalore as its first global destination. The no-frill Thai airline, with a 28% market share at home, is expanding services into India in order to increase utilisation of its existing seven aircraft, and also to boost revenues.
The airline will launch daily flights from Bangalore to Bangkok from June 1 on a Boeing 737-400, with a capacity of 150 seats. "By operating overnight flights to Bangalore, we are improving our aircraft utilisation. During day time, we can operate domestic flights and in the night time, instead of keeping our aircraft idle, we will fly to India," said Nok Air chief operating officer, Patee Sarasin.
Officials said that the promotional fare, starting from Rs9999 for a round trip, would require the airline to achieve a 70% load factor to break even.