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Latest archived mark · 1968

Bangkok Airways

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Latest archived mark · 1977

Thai Airways Company

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What we compare	Bangkok Airways	Thai Airways Company
Country in archive	Thailand	Thailand
Founded	1968	1947
Founder	Sahakol Air (renamed Bangkok Airways in 1989)	—
Headquarters	Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand	Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Thailand, Thailand
Name origin	The airline was founded in 1968 as Sahakol Air and rebranded as Bangkok Airways in 1989. The name points to Bangkok, the Thai capital where the airline is based. The sources used here do not give a further explanation.	The sources used for this short profile do not explain the origin of the Thai Airways Company name.
Highlights	Samui Airport, Sukhothai Airport, Trat Airport	Don Mueang International Airport
Earliest archived brand logo	1968	1947
Latest archived logo	1968	1977
Archived logo assets	1	3

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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