April 14, 200917 yr A recent report in the Bangkok papers seems to have gone unnoticed on this thread. Last week, the European Union banned 16 airlines from its airspace for "poor safety records." Thailand's One-Two-Go featured on a list that was mostly of airlines from the Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Benin. The ban came after the discovery of substandard safety and management practices, and falsification of documents by some pilots. A One-Two-Go domestic flight crashed on landing in Phuket in September 2007 leading the the death of 89 passengers and injuries to another 41. One-Two-Go is the subsidiary of Orient Thai Airlines. The parent airline now flies some charter flights and just one scheduled service - a daily flight to and from Hong Kong. Its website claims it replaced its aging fleet in 2000 with "the latest Being 747s"! Anyone arriing at Suvarnabhumi early in the morning will clearly see this is a complete misrepresentation of fact. There on the parking area on your left you see aging 747-200s and 747-300s - virtually the oldest and least cost-efficient 747s still flying.
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