Thai Smile began Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to Loei on 14 December. It’s currently operating four-weekly each way.
Thai Smile has 426 bookable flights this week (both ways combined), down by 48% versus the same week in 2020.
Meanwhile, the carrier’s parent, Thai Airways, has just 20 flights, its website shows. This is down by 99%. It has regularly cut its schedule because of the country’s borders effectively being closed to international travel.
Thai Airways has now also cut all domestic routes for 2021, although this may well change later in the year as vaccines are rolled out and things begin to return to normality.
Thai Smile is now the only domestic operator of the two carriers.
Indeed, its domestic route network has grown YOY: from 11 to 14 routes. Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to Loei, Nakhon Phanom, Nakhon Si Thammarat, and Nan were all introduced in…
