重點:Nokscoot 要開曼谷-台北,Nokscoot 要開曼谷-台北,Nokscoot 要開曼谷-台北,很重要所以說3次,用415座 777-200ER.爽!!
NokScoot plans to focus entirely on North Asia with services to China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Hong Kong is not part of the NokScoot business plan. Australia is also not under consideration as the Nok group instead plans to rely on Scoot, which will expand its network in Australia to four destinations in Nov-2015, and offer one-stop connections in the Thailand-Australia market.
Taiwan is slated to be NokScoot’s second permanent international market after China. Mr Patee said NokScoot is now working to secure authorisations for the Bangkok-Taipei route and should be able to launch services to Taipei within the next couple of months.
Taiwan is a relatively small but growing source market for Thailand’s tourism sector. Thailand reported a 57% increase in visitors from Taiwan in May-2015 to 50,000. Taiwan also is starting to emerge as a popular destination for Thais.
The Bangkok-Taipei market is highly competitive, with service from five carriers – Thai Airways, China Airlines, EVA Air, Tigerair Taiwan and V Air. But LCCs now account for only about 17% of seat capacity in the market, leaving a potential opening for the Nok group. Thai AirAsia dropped Taipei in Mar-2011.
Bangkok to Taipei capacity by carrier (one-way seats per week): Sep-2011 to Jan-2016
Note: includes both Bangkok airports
planned new flight from Nok Air not yet captured
Source: CAPA – Centre for Aviation & OAG
But filling up a 415-seat widebody aircraft could prove challenging. Tigerair Taiwan and V Air, both of which only began serving Bangkok in late 2014, operate A320s.
Connections beyond Taipei could potentially make the route sustainable for NokScoot. Scoot currently links Taipei with Osaka, Seoul and Tokyo along with Singapore. Scoot also serves Osaka from Bangkok, which Nok and NokScoot now sell but the two carriers currently do not offer any options for the Bangkok-Seoul or Bangkok-Tokyo markets and are still not able to implement plans to serve these routes with non-stops.
