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Jet Asia Acquires More Aircraft
8th Nov 2012
Jet Asia Airways is embarking on an expansion mood as it is set to launch scheduled services and acquires more aircraft to augment its fleet.
The carrier, which was established in 2009, will launch scheduled services next months to no less than 8 cities in China from its Phuket and Bangkok hubs. Jet Asia used to operate daily long-haul charter flights between Bangkok and Tokyo from February through September this year.
With the acquisition of more planes, it is planning to relaunch its scheduled charter flights between Bangkok and Tokyo as well as open new charter services between Bangkok and Incheon and between Phuket and Busan.
The airline is expecting to take delivery of a fourth aircraft, a Boeing 767-200 jet, within this month. It is also planning to acquire four more similar type of aircraft, two in the latter half of next year and another two in the following year.
The carrier is cashing in on the lucrative East Asian markets such as China, Japan and South Korea, all lie within five to seven hours from Bangkok.
Jet Asia commenced commercial charter service in September 2011 from Bangkok to Penang in Malaysia. Local Thai investors, including a Chiang Mai hotelier and retired officers of Royal Thai Air Force, founded the airline in 2009.
It started long-haul charter flights in February of 2012 between Bangkok and Tokyo exclusively for H.I.S., a travel agency based in Japan.
The airline has a paid-up capital of 250 million baht and logged 200 flights since it commenced operation.
Jet Asia Airways will launch its new scheduled services to eight Chinese cities starting next month, five of them will originate from its Phuket hub, the rest from Bangkok. It is currently operating charter services to six Chinese destinations such as Chongqing, Nanjing, Nanning and Xian, from the resort island.
Thanabool Kerdskul, its managing director, revealed that the airline finds it easy to sell tickets to Chinese tourists as the tropical island resort is quite popular in China.
An average of three weekly flights is planned for the scheduled services to major points in China including Beijing.
Jet Asia Airways' ticket sales agent in China is China International Travel Service.
On the Bangkok-Incheon sector, the airline is targeting up to seven flights a week while its Phuket-Busan segment, twice weekly.
If the demand is encouraging enough, it will upgrade to scheduled service its South Korean sectors within one to two months after the launch of its charter flights to the country.
There are currently four Thai airlines, including Jet Asia Airways, serving the South Korean market bringing its tourists to Thailand. The others are THAI, Orient Thai Airlines and Business Air.
The carrier is planning to have all its fleet of leased Boeing 767 aircraft configured to one-class economy layout.
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