23rd Dec 2011
Boutique private Thai airline PC Air has announced that it will begin operating charter flights from December 2011 with a Bangkok to Vientiane service and will start serving mainland China in January 2012.
Initially the charter service was to start around the middle of 2011 or in the third quarter, but incidents such as the Thailand flood disaster caused a delay.
The company was created last year and is owned by Chatwiwat Klumkomol and Peter Chang. The airline will commence with charter flights to keep expenses controllable and will launch scheduled flights soon after.
Mr. Chatwiwat, the president of the airline, said it would begin flying from Bangkok to Shenyang and Tianjin in China in January 2012.
Impressively PC Air is the first airline in Thailand to hire all genders. Transgender persons are openly accepted and commonplace in Thailand and the move will be certainly welcomed from international gender groups.
The small airline has also changed its original plans on which destinations it will fly to and from. Originally South Korea and Japan had been planned but now it will begin with China and Laos.