One-Two-GO Airlines

One-Two-GO Airlines
วัน ทู โก แอร์ไลน์

IATA OG ICAO OTG Callsign THAI EXPRESS
Founded	2003
Commenced operations	3 December 2003
Ceased operations	2009
Operating bases	Don Mueang International Airport
Fleet size	8
Destinations	7
Company slogan	"Do it by Heart"
Parent company	Orient Thai Airlines
Headquarters	Don Mueang, Bangkok, Thailand
Key people	Udom Tantiprasongchai (Chairman)
Website	www.flyorientthai.com

A One-Two-GO Boeing 757 in storage at the Victorville Airport

One-Two-GO Airlines (Thai: วัน-ทู-โก แอร์ไลน์) was a low-cost airline based in Don Mueang, Bangkok, Thailand.^[1] 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.^[2] Its main base was Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok.^[3] 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.^[3]

On 8 April 2009, the European Commission added One-Two-GO Airlines to its blacklist of airline operators banned from entering European airspace.^[4]

Former destinations

One-Two-GO Airlines served the following destinations:

Asia

• Thailand
  • Bangkok - Don Mueang International Airport Base^[5]
  • Chiang Rai - Chiang Rai International Airport
  • Phuket - Phuket International Airport

Former fleet

A One-Two-GO MD-82.

The One-Two-GO Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:^[6]

One-Two-GO Airlines Fleet

Aircraft	In Fleet	Notes
McDonnell Douglas MD-82	5	Operated by Orient Thai Airlines

The airline was in negotiations with Japan Airlines to purchase several used MD-80s aircraft for expansion.^[7] This never happened.

Incidents and accidents

• On 16 September 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. 90 people were killed. 45 of the dead were tourists.^[8] Thai aviation officials initially claimed that weather was a probable factor.^[9][10] 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.^[11]

Three years after the crash, the British Coroner's Inquest examining the cause of the British nationals' deaths ^[12] 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

1. ^ "Contact Us." One-Two-GO Airlines. Retrieved on 4 March 2010.
2. ^ "[1]." EU Bans Thai, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Benin Airlines From EU.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 59. 2007-04-10. 
4. ^ http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/560&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
5. ^ http://www.fly12go.com
6. ^ One-Two-Go Fleet
7. ^ One-Two-Go to purchase ex-JAL MD-80's
8. ^ "Scores killed in Thai plane crash". BBC News. 16 September 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6997381.stm. Retrieved 20 May 2010. 
9. ^ Yahoo.com^{[dead link]}
10. ^ "Crash airline has history of safety doubts," The Australian
11. ^ "ONE-TWO-GO AIRLINES Pilot error blamed for crash". Bangkok Post. 2008-07-21. http://www.bangkokpost.com/210708_News/21Jul2008_news008.php. Retrieved 2008-07-21. 
12. ^ SPG Fisher HM Coroner (2011) (pdf). HM Coroner's Summary into the 8 Inquests of an Air Accident that Occurred on the One-Two-GO Airlines. http://www.investigateudom.com/files/InquestStatement.pdf. Retrieved July 14, 2011. 

External links

	Thailand portal
	Companies portal
	Aviation portal

• One-Two-GO Airlines official website