Thailand's second national carrier Angel Air is again halting all services and will scrap a tie-up with China Northern Airlines.
The privately owned airline has been struggling since its 1998 launch. In mid-2000 it paused operations for restructuring.
Angel said on 3 January that it would halt all services from 5 January and return its sole aircraft, an Airbus A300-600R, to lessor China Northern. It had been running Bangkok-Hong Kong, Bangkok-Macau and Phuket-Hong Kong passenger services .
The airline says it aims to return to service "soon", starting cargo services to Shanghai on a leased McDonnell Douglas DC-8 before resuming passenger services.
Future operations will also focus on China, although Angel plans no more links with China Northern.
Following its grounding in 2000, Angel signed a partnership agreement with the Chinese carrier. However, the partnership never went further than wet lease two A300-600Rs, one of which was returned in October, after Angel scrapped Phuket-Osaka services.
Source: Flight International
