Bangkok (CNN) — For the primary time in 10 years, there’s now a nonstop flight between North America and the capital of one of many world’s hottest vacationer locations, Thailand.
On December 1 at 11 p.m. native time, Air Canada flight AC65 took off from Vancouver Worldwide Airport to start the 15-hour and 55-minute journey to Bangkok.
The inaugural flight is scheduled to reach within the Thai capital on Saturday morning at 5:55 a.m. native time.
The seasonal Air Canada service will function 4 instances every week between now and April 17, 2023 with Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane. Vacationers can select from three cabins — lie-flat seats in Signature Class in addition to Premium Economic system and Economic system Class.
Flight AC65, from Vancouver to Bangkok, will function on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Flight AC66 will depart the Thai capital at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, arriving in Vancouver at 6:35 a.m. native time.
“We’re extraordinarily happy to be launching our first nonstop service to Southeast Asia this winter, the one one between North America and Thailand,” mentioned Mark Galardo, Air Canada’s senior vp of community planning and income administration, in a press release.
Nationwide flag provider Thai Airways beforehand supplied recurrently scheduled nonstop flights from Bangkok to Los Angeles, however these had been halted in 2012.
Thailand, which dropped the final of its Covid-related entry restrictions on October 1, is now working to rebuild its battered tourism trade because the pandemic fades from view.
In a media assertion launched on December 1, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Yuthasak Supasorn mentioned the nation is forecasting a return to 80% of total pre-pandemic tourism income inside 2023, with 10 million worldwide customer arrivals anticipated in 2022.
In 2019, the nation welcomed 39.8 million worldwide arrivals.
Lengthy, however not the longest
The Vancouver-Bangkok flights, masking a distance of practically 12,000 kilometers (7,456 miles) will final practically 16 hours. Vacationers heading the opposite approach get a little bit of reduction, with these journeys anticipated to take round 13 hours.
However so long as these flights are, they are not breaking any data.
Presently, the longest scheduled flight on this planet is operated by Singapore Airways, touring between Singapore and New York’s JFK, spending about 18 hours within the air to cowl 15,323 kilometers.
Australia flag provider Qantas hopes to smash that report with the launch of direct flights between Melbourne/Sydney and New York Metropolis/London, an intention it refers to collectively as “Challenge Dawn.”
High picture: An Air Canada Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Credit score: Massimo Insabato/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Photos
