The CEO of Thai Airways International (TG, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) says the airline is making progress on reducing the number of aircraft types it operates. Chai Eamsiri told the Bangkok Business digital newspaper that it was operating eight different aircraft types before the pandemic. That is now down to six, and he is working to cut it to four.
According to ch-aviation Commercial Aviation News, Operator & Airport Data, Thai Airways operates twenty A320-200s, five A330-300s, twenty-three A350-900s, five B777-200ERs, seventeen B777-300ERs, six B787-8s, and three B787-9s (Eamsiri appears to classify the two B787 variants as a single type) for a total of 79 aircraft. It retired its A380-800s and remaining B747-400s shortly after the pandemic started.
Eamsiri says the number of aircraft types will reduce to five by 2029 with the retirement of the B777-200ERs and four by 2033 with the retirement of the A330-300s. By that stage, the overall fleet should have grown to 150 aircraft, specifically fifteen B777-300ERs, seventeen A350-900s, sixty-six B787s (both the B787-8 and -9), and fifty-two Airbus narrowbodies.
Thai Airways is active in the leasing market, but it also has thirty-two A321-200Ns, six B787-10s, and forty-two B787-9s on order. Eamsiri says the A321neo jets will arrive between November 2025 and August 2028. The airline will receive four more B787-9s in the first half of 2026. Deliveries of the B787-10s are scheduled to start in mid-2027. Eamsiri's delivery schedule also includes fourteen B777-300ERs to be delivered over 12 months from May 2027. Factoring in retirements, he says this should result in the Thai Airways fleet increasing by 80 aircraft by the end of 2028.
