One-Two-Go:Cash & Crash-Strapped!

[Ganyc]

Does Orient Thai Airlines have any official inflight magazine and aircraft postcard ? Tried to contact the airline but the airline did not reply to enquiries. Besides, its One-Two-Go web-site flight schedule engine is not working. Cannot check flight schedules.

[Wisarut]

I DOn't thinjk so since my mom who has taken a flight on Orient Thai to Hat Yai has NEVER be able to pick up the on light magazine from Orient Thai

[Ganyc]

You mean Orient Thai has no inflight magazine ?

[jpatokal]

Originally Posted by Ganyc

You mean Orient Thai has no inflight magazine ?

Correct, they're very much a bare-bones airline (like Air Asia, but incompetent).

Speaking of incompetent airlines, I spotted a Phuket Air 747 sitting around on the tarmac of the domestic bit of Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport last week...?

[Flysiam]

Orient Thai does indeed have an Inflight magazine... I think there are 4 issues out as of this date. It is titled One Two Fly. Original eh? yeah right.

[jpatokal]

Originally Posted by jpatokal

Speaking of incompetent airlines, I spotted a Phuket Air 747 sitting around on the tarmac of the domestic bit of Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport last week...?

And one of the Thai Sky Lockheeds at Kuala Lumpur. Have they started flying already?

Answer to self after a bit of Googling: yes. No sign of a website or such trivia as, say, flight schedules, destinations or prices though...

Answer to self after trying the obvious: they do have a site after all. More in the appropriate thread.

[Ganyc]

Orient Thai Airlines and One-Two-GO, are they the same on international routes ? Is the inflight magazine One-Two-FLY the same on international routes ? Does One-Two-GO fly to Guangzhou ? I am confused by Orient Thai.

[Ganyc]

Hi, Bangkok,

How many hours of check-in time are allowed for an Orient Thai flight to Guangzhou ? Does Orient Thai allow last-minute booking, half an hour before a flight ?

[jpatokal]

Same company, different brands. As far as I understand One-Two-GO is the domestic LCC brand and Orient Thai is what they use for international flights.

[jpatokal]

Standard answer for any airline (except the US) is one hour before departure. And sure, they'll sell you a normal ticket if there's space before the flight closes (= stops accepting checkins), or a standby ticket right after if you've signed up for the waitlist.

[Ganyc]

Is Orient Thai on international routes a LCC ? On its international routes, does Orient Thai use a different inflight magazine or the same One-Two-FLY ?

[jpatokal]

I thought Orient Thai was teetering with one leg in the grave, but nay, looks like they just bought a new plane. Although maybe "new" is the wrong word for a 20-year-old workhorse delivered to JAL in 1986...

Plane fanboy note: the "747-146BSR-SUD" model in question is one of only two ever built. With 533 seats it had the largest passenger capacity in the world until 1991, when the 747-400D (also custom-built for JAL) squeezed in 30 more seats to get 563. Some more info on Wikipedia.

[ncr]

Although maybe "new" is the wrong word for a 20-year-old workhorse delivered to JAL in 1986...

Yes, but on the other hand, the average age of their jumbos is 27 years.......

[jpatokal]

Bangkok Post's original report has gone poof, so here's Luchtzak:

A report in the business section of today's Bangkok Post www.bangkokpost.com stated thet the domestic arm of Orient Thai-One to Go was to be floated and apply for it's own operating licence and adapt the IATA code of OG in place of OX used by Orient Thai.

Six more MD-82 jets were to be acquired-four arriving by the end of 2006.
Four new routes were announced-Bangkok to Phitsanulok,Nakhon Si Thammarat and Krabi,and Hat Yia to Phuket."

MD-82? I guess they're too dodgy even for Indonesia these days... and true to the form of the sole airline I will not fly again, here's a bouquet of roses from Phuket:

A source from Orient Thai’s Phuket office told Phuket Post that the Korean passengers were told to disembark from the airplane after the pilot and staff discovered a fault. After an hour, engineers were forced to admit that they could not fix the problem because they did not have necessary spare parts. ... We did not know that there was more than one technical problem with the airplane."

[mdechgan]

Orient Thai's planes are in horrible shape. Anyone can go to Don Muang and look for yourselves. On the far edges of the airport one can see baby blue B747s parked in horrible shape. Its hard to believe that these planes are serviced to fly. These planes look as if they haven't been washed for years.
Just imagine the service and maintenance these planes are lacking.