nok plus

Post by **dill** » September 3, 2007, 2:40 pm

went onto nok airline website and found that i could not find anywhere to book a ticket on the nok plus seats.
has anyone else had this problem or do i have to find it else where.
thanxs in advance for any advice.

Post by **pompui** » September 3, 2007, 3:21 pm

Due to change of nokair policy and aeroplane,no more business seats to Udon Thani.I believe though that by booking economy seat and paying excess fee over 15kgs it would still work out cheaper than economy on Thai airways.

Post by **Laan Yaa Mo** » September 3, 2007, 9:32 pm

When I flew from Bangkok to Udon Thani the Nok Air staff told me that as long as my luggage did not exceed 18 kgs. there would be no extra charge even though the limit is officially set at 15 kgs.. One of my suitcases logged in at 18.5 and there was no problem over paying the excess fee.

Post by **patlyb** » September 8, 2007, 8:48 pm

pompui wrote:Due to change of nokair policy and aeroplane,no more business seats to Udon Thani.I believe though that by booking economy seat and paying excess fee over 15kgs it would still work out cheaper than economy on Thai airways.

Do you know what is the reason for not selling business seat?
thks

Post by **JimboPSM** » September 8, 2007, 9:56 pm

patlyb wrote:
pompui wrote:Due to change of nokair policy and aeroplane,no more business seats to Udon Thani.I believe though that by booking economy seat and paying excess fee over 15kgs it would still work out cheaper than economy on Thai airways.
Do you know what is the reason for not selling business seat?
thks

I suspect that THAI were losing premium "business class" business to Nok Air and it was affecting its load capacity numbers and therefore costing THAI money.

As Nok is only a "budget airline" subsidiary of THAI it would not be allowed to take business away from its parent for long before being stopped.

The airline business (like most) is about the bottom line, not customer service - and I have often heard that airline managements only think of passengers as self loading freight.

Post by **rickfarang** » September 8, 2007, 10:26 pm

There was an item in the Post a month or two back, in which Thai was pressuring Nok to raise its prices so that it would not take so many passengers away from Thai (As I remember, Nok was Thai's response to Air Asia entering the domestic market, and Thai owns a little less than 50% of Nok.)

Thai had suggested th, and Nok's board was insisting that they were bound to represent the best interest of ALL stockholders.=D>

Maybe the elimination of the Nok Plus seats on the BKK <=> UTH run was a compromise solution to the standoff.

Post by **patlyb** » September 9, 2007, 9:02 am

rickfarang wrote:There was an item in the Post a month or two back, in which Thai was pressuring Nok to raise its prices so that it would not take so many passengers away from Thai (As I remember, Nok was Thai's response to Air Asia entering the domestic market, and Thai owns a little less than 50% of Nok.)

Thai had suggested th, and Nok's board was insisting that they were bound to represent the best interest of ALL stockholders.=D>

Maybe the elimination of the Nok Plus seats on the BKK <=> UTH run was a compromise solution to the standoff.

ok...thks for the quick reply.
taking thai on business will cost around bat6k,but on nok around bat2k.
guess alot of ppl will miss the services by nokair(cheap/good).