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Article: Bangkok Post, Thailand, Travel Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- February 23, 2004
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By Imtiaz Muqbil, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 23--THAI AIRLINE SECTOR ENTERS NEW ERA: While airline executives are calling for the future of aviation competition to be both free and fair, in a country where one airline is publicly owned and another by a company with links to the prime minister, no one is under illusions about whether the competition will be either free or fair.
Six low-cost and secondary airlines are operating in Thailand today: PB Air, Phuket Air, Bangkok Airways, Nok Air (a subsidiary of Thai Airways), One-Two-Go (subsidiary of Orient Thai) and Thai AirAsia, (subsidiary of AirAsia). One ...