Kan Air Gets The Go Signal To Fly Anew From UTapao

13th Aug 2015

Kan Air gets a second chance from the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) when the latter allowed the airline to conduct flights once more from U-Tapao airport in Ban Chang District.

The airline was granted permission to conduct scheduled flights once again to Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, Krabi, Phuket, and Udon Thani using U-tapao airport as take off point.

Earlier, the DCA curtailed the airline's scheduled routes citing that Kan Air's application for flight permit was intended for chartered flights. As it turned out, it was operating scheduled flights instead of chartered flights. The DCA's immediate action was to ban Kan Air's scheduled flights.

However, about three weeks ago, the DCA lifted the ban allowing Kan Air to fly its scheduled routes once more.

The DCA reminded that in order to operate under a chartered flight permit, an airline is required to sell airline tickets strictly on wholesale.

Kan Air failed in this aspect thus, it was constrained to follow DCA's directive to cut its eight scheduled flights. Flight routes affected included five flight services from U-Tapao and three others from Chiang Mai airport.

Apart from lifting the ban on scheduled flights, the DCA also allowed the airline to launch a new flight route going to Phrae, taking off from Don Mueang airport.

Kan Air operator Kannithi Aviation Company through its president, Somphong Sooksanguan said that the airline expects to re-launch flights from U-Tapao to Chiang Mai by September this year. Despite lifting of the ban for scheduled flights, it does not intend re-launch these flights in one sweep.

Along with the U-Tapao to Chiang Mai route, it will also launch the Don Mueang to Phrae route this September.

To give way to these two new flight routes, Kan Air plans to limit its Don Mueang to Mae Sot flights to just two per day.

Kan Air will be launching four additional routes from U-Tapao by 2016 thus, increasing aircraft capacity is in the offing to augment existing capacity provided by its ATR 72-500s.

According to the airline's president, he and his team are already exploring the possibility of purchasing Airbus 320s.

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