One Two GO Airlines

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OG OTG Destinations 7 Headquarters Bangkok, Thailand Ceased operations July 2010 Parent organization Orient Thai Airlines		OTG THAI EXPRESS Company slogan "Do it by Heart" Founded 3 December 2003 Fleet size 8

Commenced operations December 3, 2003 (2003-12-03) Operating bases Don Mueang International Airport Operating base Don Mueang International Airport

One two go airlines landing at surat thani airport

One Two Go Airlines Co. Lte (Thai: วัน-ทู-โก แอร์ไลน์) was a low-cost airline based in Don Mueang, Bangkok, Thailand. Its main base was Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok. Always owned and managed by Orient Thai Airlines and owned by CEO Udom Tantiprasongchai and his wife Nina Tantriprasongchai, the One-Two-GO brand was retired in July 2010, and the aircraft re-branded as Orient Thai Airlines.

History

The airline started operations on 3 December 2003.

Following the crash of OG 269 in Phuket, Thailand on September 16, 2007, One-Two-GO was banned from flying in European Union nations due to safety concerns.

On April 8, 2009, the European Commission added One-Two-GO Airlines to its blacklist of airline operators banned from entering European airspace.

Former destinations

One-Two-GO Airlines served domestic destinations Chiang Rai and Phuket from their base at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.

Former fleet

The One-Two-GO Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:

5 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (Operated by Orient Thai Airlines)

The airline was in negotiations with Japan Airlines to purchase several used MD-80s aircraft for expansion. This never happened.

Incidents and accidents

On September 16, 2007, One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269, an McDonnell Douglas MD-82 flying from Bangkok with 123 passengers and seven crew members, crashed in strong winds and heavy rain after attempting to land at Phuket International Airport. The aircraft was mostly destroyed in the blazing inferno that soon developed after the crash as the fuselage tore in two. 89 people were killed. 45 of the dead were tourists. Thai aviation officials initially claimed that weather was a probable factor. The cause of the crash was later determined to be multiple flight crew errors caused by systemic failures including corruption and lack of training at One-Two-GO and within Thailand's Civil Aviation Authority, Department of Civil Aviation. Three years after the crash, the British Coroner's Inquest examining the cause of the British nationals' deaths cited the "flagrant disregard for passenger safety" at One-Two-GO and said "the primary failure so far as I am concerned relates to the corporate culture which prevailed both One-Two-Go Airlines and Orient Thai Airlines prior to and following the air crash."

References

One-Two-GO Airlines Wikipedia

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