Economic Times reports: Thai low-cost carrier Nok Air is suspending its operations to Bangalore. The airline is withdrawing its operations on the Bangalore-Bangkok route this month with its last flight operating on November 23, 2007.
Nok Air started operations in India by launching daily Bangalore-Bangkok flight in June this year. Bangalore was also the first international destination for Nok Air, which operates to 11 destinations in Thailand. After Bangalore, the airline had planned to launch daily flights from Hyderabad, Chennai and Delhi to Bangkok early next year.
However, Rajiv Bhatia, GM (India) of Nok Air says, “we were doing very well on the Bangalore-Bangkok route. We are only withdrawing our operations on this route temporarily owing to the non-availability of aircraft. We were going to get five Boeing aircraft on lease.
India is definitely on our radar and we still want to fly to Delhi , Hyderabad and Chennai.” Mr Bhatia, however, declined to comment on the timeline of re-entry into India. All the passengers who have been booked on the flight after November 23 will be transferred to Thai Airways.
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