Singapore’s Scoot and Thailand’s Nok Air have recently agreed to set up joint-venture airline NokScoot in 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 $78.4 million dollar budget service.
Says Nok Air’s chief executive officer Patee Sarasin, “we are excited at the prospect of expanding Nok’s presence overseas, and to be doing so with the assistance of Scoot. 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.
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