Bangkok Airways ATR 72 Review

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Bangkok Airways a.k.a. Bangkok Air has yet again been awarded as the “WORLD’S BEST REGIONAL AIRLINE”. But how much truth is behind that?
I tested it in this Bangkok Airways Review!
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Airline: Bangkok Airways
Class: Economy Class
Aircraft: ATR 72-600
Departure: Trat Airport (TDX)
Destination: Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (BKK
Seats: 16D & 16F
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About Bangkok Airways (from Wikipedia):
Bangkok Airways Public Company Limited (Thai: บางกอกแอร์เวย์ส) is a regional airline based in Bangkok, Thailand. It operates scheduled services to destinations in Thailand, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Singapore, and Vietnam. Its main base is Suvarnabhumi Airport.
The airline was established in 1968 as Sahakol Air, operating air taxi services under contract from the Overseas International Construction Company (OICC), an American construction company, the United States Operations Mission (USOM), and a number of other organisations engaged in oil and natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Thailand. It began scheduled services in 1986, becoming Thailand's first privately owned domestic airline. It rebranded to become Bangkok Airways in 1989. The airline is owned by Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth (92.31 percent), Sahakol Estate (4.3 percent), Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (1.2 percent), and other shareholders (2.19 percent). At one point, it also wholly owned subsidiary airline Siem Reap Airways in Cambodia.
It built its own airport on Ko Samui, which opened in April 1989 and offers direct flights between the island and Chiang Mai, Hong Kong, Krabi, Pattaya, Phuket, and Singapore. The airline opened its second airport in Sukhothai Province in 1996. A third airport was built in Trat Province, opening in March 2003 to serve the tourism destination of Ko Chang.
The airline made its first foray into jet aircraft in 2000, when it started adding Boeing 717s to its fleet. Until that time, Bangkok Airways had flown propeller-driven aircraft, primarily the ATR 72. It had also operated the De Havilland Canada Dash 8, the Shorts 330 and for a short time a Fokker 100. The carrier added another jet, the Airbus A320, to its fleet in 2004.
About the ATR 72 (from Wikipedia):
The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed and produced in France and Italy by aircraft manufacturer ATR (French: Avions de transport régional or Italian: Aerei da Trasporto Regionale), a joint venture formed by French aerospace company Aérospatiale (now Airbus) and Italian aviation conglomerate Aeritalia (now Leonardo S.p.A.). The number "72" in its name is derived from the aircraft's typical standard seating capacity of 72 passengers.
During the 1980s, French aerospace company Aérospatiale and Italian aviation conglomerate Aeritalia merged their work on a new generation of regional aircraft. A new jointly owned company, ATR, was established to develop, manufacture, and market their first airliner, which was later designated as the ATR 42. On 16 August 1984, the first model of the series, designated as the ATR 42-300, performed the type's maiden flight. During the mid-1980s, the ATR 72 was developed as a stretched variant of the ATR 42. On 27 October 1989, Finnish airline Finnair became the first airline to operate the type in revenue service. The ATR 72 has also been used as a corporate transport, cargo aircraft, and maritime patrol aircraft.
To date, all of the ATR series have been completed at the company's final assembly line in Toulouse, France; ATR benefits from sharing resources and technology with Airbus SE, which has continued to hold a 50% interest in the company. Successive models of the ATR 72 have been developed. Typical updates have included new avionics, such as a glass cockpit, and the adoption of newer engine versions to deliver enhanced performance, such as increased efficiency and reliability and reductions in operating costs. The aircraft share a high degree of commonality with the smaller ATR 42, which remains in production as of January 2023.
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[@armenian_avgeek2_official]

I've flown on the Bangkok Airways ATR-72 back in July 2023, and it was a good trip, especially the fact that the ATR-72 is the smallest plane I've flown on.

[@theRealJohnnyG.]

Nice! Loved flying on on the ATR-72 too!

[@user-cc3ey1gf6y]

Trat Airport has 4 locations: 1 Trat Airport, 2 Squadron 306, the city near the bus station has no aircraft service. 3Koh Chang Airport for ultra-light aircraft 4Koh Mai Si Airport

[@theRealJohnnyG.]

Thank you. The one Bangkok Airways flies from is Trat Airport (TDX).

[@MissPookie2]

How did you experienced your flight on the turbo prop? I'm considering to book a flight, did you feel safe? Thank you :D

[@theRealJohnnyG.]

For me as an avgeek it was exciting. :) But I never felt unsafe.

[@randyrohe]

I've long said the worst thing about any airline is.... the passengers who fly on it! People who cannot function properly and respectfully in public should just stay home. And yet they never do!

[@theRealJohnnyG.]

Exactly my words!

[@andbrads]

Wow, so embarrassed to be British, not everyone is like that here

[@theRealJohnnyG.]

😂😂😅 For sure! I have met a few people from the UK on my travels and through work. Most of them are really friendly and fun