Orient Thai Airlines Linked to Khlong Toei

Flightera’s airline profile for Orient Thai Airlines, visible on June 2, 2026, lists the defunct Thai carrier’s final headquarters as Khlong Toei, Bangkok. The profile says Orient Thai Airlines Co., Ltd. was founded in 1995, began operations in 1997 and ceased operations in 2018. The page also links the airline to Don Mueang as an operating base and preserves aircraft and route data for a carrier that no longer flies. Wikipedia’s current entry for Orient Thai Airlines matches that description and says the airline’s final head office was in Khlong Toei district, Bangkok, after an earlier headquarters location in Don Mueang district. The entry says the company ceased flight operations in July 2018 and entered liquidation on October 9, 2018. ### Where does the Khlong Toei link come from? (flightera.net) Orient Thai’s own archived contact pages place the company in Khlong Toei. One version of the airline’s website lists its head office at 18 Ratchadapisek Road, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, with Bangkok telephone numbers and reservation email addresses. Another careers page on the same domain gives the same street address in Klongtoey, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110. (en.wikipedia.org) Flightera’s profile reflects that later corporate address history rather than the airline’s earlier Don Mueang listing. The site describes the headquarters line as “First: Don Mueang district, Bangkok” and “Final: Khlong Toei district, Bangkok,” preserving both locations in the airline record. ### What exactly is Flightera preserving? Flightera’s Orient Thai pages function as an archive of airline and aircraft records rather than evidence of current operations. (orient-thai.com) The main airline profile says “No flights found” and labels the company as having ceased operations in 2018. Separate aircraft pages remain online for specific Orient Thai jets, including Boeing 757-200 aircraft such as HS-BTA, marked “Inactive.” (flightera.net) The Boeing 757-200 model page on Flightera also continues to group Orient Thai under that aircraft type, which is the basis for the referenced B752 entry. That means researchers can still trace the airline through model-level fleet pages even though the carrier itself is defunct. ### How does that compare with other aviation databases? Planespotters, another aviation database, says Orient Thai Airlines operated from 1997 to 2018 and identifies the carrier as based in Bangkok. (flightera.net) Its profile was last updated on May 15, 2026, indicating that third-party fleet databases are still maintaining records for the airline years after its shutdown. (flightera.net) The consistency across Flightera, Planespotters and archived Orient Thai pages is narrow but useful: the carrier existed, it stopped operating in 2018, and its later corporate footprint was in Khlong Toei. None of the sources reviewed indicate any resumption of service. ### Why does this matter for Khlong Toei corporate history? Khlong Toei appears in the surviving record as the airline’s final administrative location, not as its flying base. (planespotters.net) Flightera and Wikipedia both tie operations to Bangkok airports, while the archived company pages tie office functions to Ratchadapisek Road in Khlong Toei. That distinction matters for anyone using aviation records to map business presence inside Bangkok districts. (flightera.net) Archived airline pages often outlast the airlines themselves. In Orient Thai’s case, the remaining web trail now sits across a live tracking database, an aircraft registry site and dormant company pages that still carry addresses, fleet references and contact details. ### Where can researchers still verify the record? Flightera’s airline profile and aircraft subpages remain the easiest public reference points for June 2026 checks. (en.wikipedia.org) The Orient Thai domain also still exposes legacy contact and FAQ pages that mention the head office and call center, while Planespotters maintains a separate fleet-history record with a recent update date. Those pages are the next places to check for anyone tracing Khlong Toei-linked corporate records tied to the airline. (flightera.net)