BANGKOK, 12 August 2026: Thai Airways International will resume direct service between Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) and Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport (XMN) starting 25 October 2026.

In an announcement posted on the airline’s Facebook page, the airline says it will schedule four weekly flights (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday). Flights on Sunday have different departure times from those on other days.

Photo credit: THAI.

Flights are listed for booking for the winter timetable schedule from 25 October 2026 through 27 March 2027.

The service restores direct connectivity between the Thai capital and China’s Fujian province, targeting both business travel and regional leisure travel to coastal spots such as Gulangyu Island. Xiamen is a major scenic port and special economic island city on the southeast coast of China.

TG previously operated direct flights on the Bangkok (BKK) – Xiamen (XMN) route until 25 March 2020, when global aviation operations stalled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which closed borders and disrupted travel for two years.  

Thai Airways suspended its entire international network to mainland China — including Xiamen, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Kunming — due to global border shutdowns, strict quarantine mandates, and plummeting travel demand at the onset of the pandemic.  

But THAI compounded its troubles when it entered court-supervised debt restructuring in late 2020. To reduce operating costs, the airline retired older aircraft types and temporarily consolidated its network around core trunk routes as post-pandemic travel gradually reopened.

Priority was given to high-volume secondary destinations and primary capital routes. The delay in resuming Xiamen service until October 2026 aligns with the delivery schedule for new narrow-body aircraft (such as the Airbus A321neo), which are better suited to serve regional Chinese routes than larger wide-body jets.

Flight Schedule

TG610 departs Bangkok (BKK) at 1040 and arrives in Xiamen (XMN) at 1505 (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday).
TG610 departs Bangkok (BKK) at 1235 and arrives in Xiamen (XMN) at 1700 (Sunday).

TG611 departs Xiamen (XMN) at 1610 and arrives in Bangkok (BKK) at 1830 (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday).
TG611 departs Xiamen (XMN) at 1755 and arrives in Bangkok (BKK at 2015 (Sunday).

THAI will compete head-on with China’s Xiamen Airlines, the dominant carrier on the BKK-XMN route, offering 21 weekly flights using an A321neo with 208 seats. It schedules daily departures from Xiamen at 0150, 1215, and 1740.

Xiamen Airlines also has an interline agreement with Bangkok Airways, offering connections to domestic holiday destinations such as Krabi, Samui, Phuket, and Chiang Mai.

THAI flies the route four times weekly using an A321neo with 175 seats. Flight time on the route is three hours and 25 minutes. The average round-trip fare is USD330.

(Source: THAI with additional reporting)