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13268
Mon, 07/21/2008 - 18:12
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Fuel cost casualty: One-Two-Go announces 45-day halt to flights
BANGKOK, July 21 (TNA) – One-Two-Go Airlines, Thailand's first budget airline, has announced a 45-day temporary suspension of its flight services, effective Tuesday.
Orient Thai Airlines, which operates the low-cost airline, has notannounced any official reasons for the decision, but it is generally known that the airline has suffered heavy losses due to surging oil prices.
Airline officials said customers who had purchased tickets for future flights could contact the airline's service counter personnel and fill out a refund form.
Despite the announcement, many people had queued to buy tickets forupcountry travel at the airline's counter at Don Mueang Airport.
Some expressed sympathy with the airline's fate, and said that at least two airlines should be available for services on each route to provide passengers with an alternative travel choice.
The customers said they could afford a fare hike if the airline decided to do that, because travel by personal vehicles was already higher than even economy air travel due to surging oil prices.
Serirat Prasutanont, acting president of Airports of Thailand, said that AoT had not yet been informed of the airline's decision.
In a proper procedure, he said, the airline had to coordinate with the appropriate AoT deparftments to keep the airports authority informed of such a decision. (
Orient Thai Airlines, which operates the low-cost airline, has notannounced any official reasons for the decision, but it is generally known that the airline has suffered heavy losses due to surging oil prices.
Airline officials said customers who had purchased tickets for future flights could contact the airline's service counter personnel and fill out a refund form.
Despite the announcement, many people had queued to buy tickets forupcountry travel at the airline's counter at Don Mueang Airport.
Some expressed sympathy with the airline's fate, and said that at least two airlines should be available for services on each route to provide passengers with an alternative travel choice.
The customers said they could afford a fare hike if the airline decided to do that, because travel by personal vehicles was already higher than even economy air travel due to surging oil prices.
Serirat Prasutanont, acting president of Airports of Thailand, said that AoT had not yet been informed of the airline's decision.
In a proper procedure, he said, the airline had to coordinate with the appropriate AoT deparftments to keep the airports authority informed of such a decision. (
