Tamil Nadu   

Dual pricing for Bangkok flight

By T.S. Shankar

CHENNAI, JULY 29. Under a code-share arrangement between Thai Airways and Air India (AI), a traveller can purchase a low fare AI ticket for travel from here to Bangkok by a Thai Airways flight, instead of a higher priced Thai Airways ticket.

Dual pricing is now available here and tickets are sold by authorised IATA travel agents.

According to travel trade sources here, a customer can get a return ticket for Rs.12,630. Thai Airways has allotted 60 seats to Air India. To fly in the same sector, Indian Airlines, which operates a tri-weekly Airbus-320 service, offers two differential prices — a return fare of Rs. 12,670 subject to availability of seats (10 a flight) and a Rs. 14,000 Directorate-General of Civil Aviation-approved fare valid for three months.

Thai Airways, which has a four-times-a-week Airbus-330 operation between Bangkok and Chennai, provides three levels of fare — Rs. 15,900, Rs. 16,900 and Rs. 17,900. On a discount offer valid on Tuesdays till September 28, one can get a return ticket for Rs.14,600 for the limited seats quota.

"We are concentrating on travellers flying beyond Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei and Seoul to help sustain the Bangkok-Chennai-Bangkok sector," explains a Thai Airways source.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Tamil Nadu

News: Front Page | National | Tamil Nadu | Andhra Pradesh | Karnataka | Kerala | New Delhi | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous |
Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary | Updates: Breaking News |

Stories in this Section

• `Include Tamil Nadu in drought-hit list'
• Focussed approach paid off: Anand
• Restore rule of law, DPA tells Governor
• Transport corporations post higher losses
• It's time Centre intervened: Ramadoss
• Supreme Court upholds sacking of cooperative employees
• Lawyers assure positive response today
• Deadline to replace thatched roofs too short: writ petition
• U.S. firm given time to begin work on industrial park
• `Game plan is to make Stalin Chief Minister'
• Auditing of stamp paper vendors' accounts begins
• Dual pricing for Bangkok flight
• Action against officials for dumping voter cards
• Bomb threat to Madurai Bench
• Briefly

Copyright © 2004, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu