Nok Air plans to become a ‘lifestyle’ carrier

Nok Air is hopeful to see a better financial performance next year following its continuous improvement programme to increase operation efficiency and reduce costs, said its CE Piya Yodmani Thursday. The company and its subsidiaries had a net consolidated loss of THB652.73m, compared to over THB1.07b in the same quarter last year. Nok Air VP for marketing Charaspan Srisawadi said that Nok Air planned to reposition itself as a “lifestyle” airline from the current LCC. The airliner has worked to turn around the operation through fleet rationalisation, cost reduction, increased flying ranges, and a boost to fleet capacity utilisation. Piya said the airline aimed its fleet to achieve flying utilisation for an average 11 hours next year from the targeted over 10 hours next month and 9 and a half hours last month. <br/>