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Byline: Imtiaz Muqbil
Apr. 5--AIRLINE MOVES GLOBAL OPERATIONS TO BANGKOK TO CUT COSTS: Since March 2002, about 250 Scandinavian Airlines flights worldwide have been taking off only after being cleared by young Thai load control supervisors manning a sophisticated computer centre on the eighth floor of the Glas Haus on Sukhumvit Road.
Just one door away, another group of Thais is processing thousands of letters that come in monthly from members of the SAS frequent flyer programme EuroBonus about updating their mileage records.
Once a shareholder in Thai Airways and serving Thailand since 1949, SAS moved its Global Central Departure Control Centre (CDC) from Helsinki, London and New York to Bangkok in March 2002, making it the first airline with such a centre in Thailand.
The success of the CDC prompted SAS to ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Bangkok Post, Thailand, Travel Column.