Bangkok Airways Co., Ltd. is a regional airline based in Chatuachak District, Bangkok, Thailand. It operates scheduled services to 8 destinations in Thailand, Combodia, China, Laos, Maldives, Burma and Singapore. Its main base is Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok.
The airline was established in 1968 as Sahakol Air operating air-taxi services under contract from OICC, an American construction company, USOM and a number of other organisations engaged in oil and natural-gas exploration in the Gulf of Thailand. It began scheduled services in 1986, becoming Thailand's first privately-owned domestic airline. It re-branded to become Bangkok Airways in 1989. The airline is owned by Dr.Prasert Prasarttongosoth (92.31%), Sahakol Estate (4.3%), Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (1.2%), and other shareholders (2.19%). It has 1,903 employee and also wholly owns subsidiary airline Siem Reap Airways. It built its own airport on Koh Samui, which was opened in April 1989 and offer direct flights between the island and Chiang Mai, Hong Kong, Krabi, Pattaya, Phuket, and Singapore.
The airline opened its second airport at Sukhothai Province in 1996. A third airport was built in Trat Province, opening in March 2003 to serve the burgeoning tourism destination of Koh Chang. The airline made its first foray into jet aircraft in 2000, when it started adding Boeing 727s to it fleet. Up until then, Bangkok Airways had flown propeller driven aircraft, primarily the ATR-72. It had also operated the De Havilland Canada Dash 8, the Shorts 330 and for a short time, a Fokker F100. The carrier added another jet, the Airbus A320, to its fleet in 2004. Bangkok Airways plans to order widebody aircraft as part of its ambition to expand its fleet. It want to add its first widebody jets in 2006 to serve long-haul destinations such as London, India and Japan and it looking at Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Boeing 787 aircraft. In December 2005, Bangkok Airways announced it had decided to negotiate an order for six Airbus A350-800 aircraft in a 258-seat configuration, to be delivered to the airline commercing 2013.
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