Why doesn Continental Airlines fly into Thailand?
Continental is part of the airline conglomerate Sky Team. They do not fly to Thailand, because Delta (another member airline) operates a flight from Chicago to S. Korea to Bangkok. If continental flew, they would be creating unneccessary competition within the Sky Team alliance. In the Star Alliance, both US Airways and United fly to Bangkok, but they are sharing resources and revenues on the intercontinental flights, so there isn’t the conflict of interest that would occur between Continental and Delta if Continental flew to BKK. It is more complex than that, but that is the gist of it. Also, each airline has to pay for landing rights and so on. so more than one carrier in a single alliance serving a particular location is becoming increasinly cost prohibitive. There are no agreements with NW or and Thai restrictions that would interfere with Continental travelling here.
