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Thai AirAsia's Narathiwat service a calculated gamble.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Byline: Boonsong Kositchotethana

Feb. 8--The budget carrier Thai AirAsia will tomorrow start flying to Narathiwat, a province other commercial airlines stopped serving after the resurgence of sectarian violence last year.

The joint venture between Malaysia's AirAsia and Shin Corporation will become the first airline to resume commercial air services from Bangkok to the troubled southern province, in a move seen by the industry as risk taking.

Rival low-cost carrier Orient Thai Airlines' One-Two-Go last June announced its intention to fly to the province on the Malaysian border by the fourth quarter, but uncertainty about demand prompted it to ...

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