Air Phoenix

[jpatokal]

There's a new airline in town:

http://www.air-phoenix.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Phoenix
http://www.thaipa.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1301 (with pics, in Thai)

They fly an ancient Japanese NAMC YS-11 -- probably from Air Phuket -- between Bangkok and Mae Sot three times a week. Dunno what the plane does the rest of the time...

[GWR]

Where do they get these awful names? If they had employed a farang to think for 5 minutes they could have come up with something better. On the other hand, that is perhaps precisely what they did.

(There used to be offices in Bangkok that used farangs part-time to dream up English conversations for cheapo English teaching books. I'm told that the money was so bad and the working conditions so abyssmal and so amateurish, that the 'writers' used to dream up all sorts of weird and profane conversations to fob the company off with. The company would usually know no better, and just go ahead and publish with a few added typos to confuse the readers still further. Hence some of the garbled books that these 'publishers' are still publishing some 20 years later.)

To the outsider eye it looks like it might be the turboprop that Phuket Air used to fly Hat-Yai - Phuket. Perhaps the one that none of the creditors wanted due to difficulty getting parts & service etc for an aging Japanese plane?

Maybe they have time on their hands to fly Hat-Yai - Phuket again?

[jpatokal]

According to thai-aviation.net (http://www.thai-aviation.net/Operators%2009.htm), it is the same plane type (NAMC YS-11A), but it does not seem to be one of Air Phuket's planes, which are apparently all accounted for. It really seems to have materialized out of thin air, planespotters.net and all the other usual suspects are all drawing a blank...

[Ganyc]

Does anyone know the city office address of Air Phoenix? Does it have Timetable, Aircraft Postcard and Inflight Magazine? My Malaysian friend will be excited if there is aircraft postcard of the new airline.

The website www.air-phoenix.com is not functioning.