LOT Polish Airlines will resume a daily direct flight between Bangkok and Warsaw in the upcoming winter schedule, Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said on Friday.
The minister said the management of the airline discussed the business plan at his office on Friday, reasoning that Bangkok had interesting tourist destinations and was a regional hub of air transport, and Warsaw connected Eastern and Western Europe.
LOT will operate one daily flight through code-sharing in the winter flight schedule this year beginning in October, he said. He did not give the exact date of the service resumption. LOT already operates regular flights to Beijing and Seoul.
Mr Arkhom said that he ordered Thai Airways International to study the possibility of operating Bangkok-Warsaw flights and flights via Warsaw to Eastern Europe.
Thailand and Poland have had an aviation agreement since 1975. Both sides started regular flight services in 1997 before terminating them in October 2000. Since then, chartered flights have served the route, the minister said.