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Bangkok Airways releases yearend deals to thank patrons
Bangkok Airways (PG) has recently launched the “Thanks’ Fare” promotion
offering net fares to all routes for trips to be made during the yearend
festive season: December 1st, 2008 until March 31st, 2009. This
promotion is only available through online booking (www.bangkokair.com).
Net round-trip ticket to Chiang Mai, Trat, Phuket and Sukhothai is
priced at 3,800 baht; while Samui and Pakse is at 5,500 baht. For Phnom
Penh, Yangon and Ho Chi Minh City, the net fare is 6,800 baht, and Siem
Reap and Luang Prabang is 7,500 baht.
For Xi’an and Guilin, the deal’s at 11,000 baht and Hiroshima and
Maldives is at 18,000 baht.
For more information and reservation, please contact Bangkok Airways’
Call Center - 1771 or visit www. bangkokair.com
Singaporeans not
returning to Thailand yet
Karen Yue (TTG Asia, Singapore)
Although Suvarnabhumi Airport has been declared fully
operational since December 5, Thailand has yet to draw wary Singaporeans
back.
The destination had been popular among Singaporeans for shopping and
dining getaways over long weekends.
Travel agents said traffic to Thailand over the last weekend and public
holiday on Monday was “very weak”.
Hong Thai Travel Services has yet to see any new bookings for Thailand
since Suvarnabhumi Airport re-opened. The agency told TTG Daily News
that a 20-pax tour group bound for Bangkok tomorrow had been cancelled.
SA Tours also saw “very few” bookings to the kingdom over the long
weekend and slow pick-up in fresh bookings to Bangkok.
Only 20 percent of Jetstar Asia’s customers went ahead to Bangkok as
planned since the airport’s re-opening, while Tiger Airways has started
to see “some strength in bookings”.
SA Tours marketing and communications manager, Ms Ruth Lim said,
“Although the protestors have left the airport and the streets,
Singaporeans are still skeptical. We expect Bangkok-bound departures to
trickle back only in the few days prior to Christmas and proper recovery
after the Chinese New Year period.”
Hong Thai Travel Services spokesman, Ms Stella Chow, said travellers’
confidence would most likely return after Thailand’s re-election and as
soon as the picture of the country’s political landscape became clearer.
Emirates rewards small and
medium-sized businesses in Thailand
Emirates Airline has launched Business Rewards in Thailand, an innovative new
rewards programme tailor-made for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
An online-based programme, Business Rewards offers SMEs the opportunity to
benefit from employee flights. Each time a registered employee books their
Emirates flight through Business Rewards, the business earns Business Rewards
Miles while the individual traveller continues to earn their Miles from
Skywards, Emirates’ frequent flyer programme. The company can then redeem
accumulated Business Rewards Miles against future flights.
Jeyhun Efendi, Emirates’ area manager in Thailand and Indochina said, “Business
Rewards is a result of months of research and planning, to understand what our
SME customers want in a reward programme, and how we can transact and add value
to them in an online environment. We believe the SME community in Thailand will
embrace Business Rewards, as others have in markets that have already introduced
the programme early this year.”
In addition to reward miles, Emirates’ Business Rewards programme also provides
a convenient online portal for administrators in SMEs to manage employee travel
on Emirates Airline. The company must register with Business Rewards in the
country where it is located, but it can accumulate miles for travel undertaken
by employees at all their branches into one central account.
Emirates Business Rewards is immediately available online to small and
medium-sized businesses based in the Thailand.
For more information and to join, please visit www. emirates.com
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