A new Thai-Singaporean joint-venture will soon have passengers scooting to more destinations. No, this has nothing to do with your dog’s disgusting habits. Put that out of mind.
Singapore’s Scoot and Thailand’s Nok Air annouced yesterday they’ll launch a new joint-venture airline called “NokScoot” at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport, in a bid to provide more medium and long-haul flight services.
Scoot will own 49 percent, while Nok Air will hold the other 51 percent of the shares for the USD78.4-million budget service.
“we are excited at the prospect of expanding Nok’s presence overseas, and to be doing so with the assistance of Scoot,” said Nok Air CEO Patee Sarasin. “It has always been Nok’s goal to offer Thais more choice and more value, of which this venture is yet another example. We’re also excited at the opportunity to encourage more inbound tourists, to boost the Thai economy.”
Scoot’s chief executive officer Campbell Wilson, in acknowledging Thailand as a premier tourist destination, added that Scoot is pleased to be working with Nok on the establishment of NokScoot.
“In supporting Nok with Scoot’s experience in medium-haul widebody operations, we look forward to developing a new market segment and offering Thai consumers and travellers to Thailand more travel options,” he says.
NokScoot’s fleet, products and route network will be announced at a later date.
Photo: FlyScoot
