Orient Thai Airlines

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Orient Thai Airlines 747 at Incheon International Airport

Orient Thai Airlines (Thai: โอเรียนท์ไทย) is a scheduled and chartered domestic passenger airline based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Its main base is Chiang Mai International Airport.

Contents

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 External links

Code Data

IATA Code: OX
ICAO Code: OEA
Callsign: Orient Thai

History

The airline was established in 1992 and started its flights in September 1995 with two Boeing 727. For the CEO, Udom Tantiprasongchai, it wasn't the first airline he created, having created Cambodian International Airlines in 1990 and working there until 1994.

Orient Thai was formerly known as Cambodian International Airlines. Orient Thai ceased scheduled operations on 9 January 1998, but continues to operate charter services on behalf of Kampuchea Airlines. Scheduled services have since been restarted.

The airline is owned by the Thai Trading Corporation (70%) and the government of Cambodia (30%).

At the end of 2003 Orient Thai started the low-cost airline One-Two-GO (Thai: วัน-ทู-โก), Orient Thai owns 100% of One-Two-Go and 49% of Kampuchea Airlines.

Services

Orient Thai Airlines operates the following services (at July 2005):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Bangkok, Hat Yai, Phuket and Udon Thani.
International scheduled destinations: Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Seoul- Incheon International Airport.

Fleet

The Orient Thai Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at Feb 2006):

Orient Thai operates one of the oldest 747s flying today, and that is HS-UTD. It was delivered to Japan Airlines in 1972.

External links

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