Thai Airways accelerates A340-600 retirement to 28-Mar-2015

Thai Airways accelerated planned retirement of its A340-600 fleet to 28-Mar-2015 with the aircraft no longer appearing in the schedule from the following day, as per a 16-Feb-2015 GDS inventory and timetable display - see Route Changes Table for more information. The following services are affected:

• Bangkok Suvarnabhumi-Frankfurt: Three class 376-seat Boeing 747-400 to replace three class 267-seat A340-600 equipment on six of 13 weekly frequencies, resulting in 654 additional one-way seats each week;
• Bangkok Suvarnabhumi-Zurich: Two class 364-seat 777-300 to replace three class 267-seat A340-600 equipment on seven weekly frequencies, resulting in 679 additional one-way seats each week.

Thai also operates A340 equipment on some regional services from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to Singapore, Hong Kong and Delhi. According to the CAPA Fleet Database, Thai Airways currently operates six A340-600 aircraft with an average age of 9.0 years.