Sector Update March 27, 2015 Sector , Korea nix Thai-registered and civil aviation authorities banned new charter and scheduled flights operated by Thai-registered airlines, as they are doubtful of the Thai Civil Aviation Department's ability to meet international standards for aviation safety. Scheduled and charter flights to Japan and already operating will be immune from the ban on the condition they do not change the types of aircraft serving those routes.

This event is due to the risk of the department being downgraded by the UN's International

Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) from Category A to Category B following a recent audit covering a broad range of areas relevant to aviation authority during 19-30 Jan 2015. has time to improve airlines to meet standards within 90 days and is expected to know the result of the examination in May.

AWS’s comment NOK (Negative): This is expected to have a negative impact on NOK as the company holds a 51% stake in NokScoot, which planned to launch charter flights from Don Mueang to Japan but has not received an official permit to operate the route and the next scheduled flights face delays. In 2014, NOK recognized loss of around Bt60mn from NokScoot Airline

Co Ltd as its business was in the beginning stage. In Jan 2015, NokScoot received a second aircraft which will increase costs. Earnings improvement for NOK from domestic routes during the tourist season and lower oil price should offset higher losses from NokScoot. AAV (Neutral): AAV (Thai Airasia) does not hold a stake in Thai Airasia X but will be slightly affected by transit passengers in local routes as Thai AirAsia X planned to launch flights from to on 1 May, but that is no longer on the radar. Thai Airasia X’s current routes are still operational. Moreover, AAV currently does not have charter flights to Japan. THAI (Neutral): THAI’s investor relations department said the company should not be affected by this news as it always maintains its operations above standard. However, THAI may face some opportunity loss from servicing charter flights during the Songkran holiday in April.

BA (Neutral): would not be directly impacted as it has no flights to Japan.

However, in the worst case that Thailand is downgraded by ICAO from Category A to Category B, it may lead to additional countries, such as the US and EU to follow Japan and Thailand Research Department Korea’s lead and this will have a greater negative impact to THAI. Based on the news, Mr. Warut Siwasariyanon, AAV looks more appealing to invest now than NOK, as the negative impact to AAV is License, No. 17923 limited. AAV’s 2015 earnings should be bright thanks to a recovery in the tourism Tel: 02 680 5041 sector with a robust number of Chinese travelers, five new planes in 2015 (40 total Ms. Sukanya Leelarwerachai now) and low jet fuel prices. AAV’s load factor is expected to rise to 82% in 1Q15 from Assistant Analyst 79% in 4Q14.

Table 1: Thai airlines’ operations summary THAI BA AAV NOK 2013 2014 2015E 2013 2014 2015E 2013 2014 2015E 2013 2014 2015E

Sales and Service 211,605 191,266 189,308 19,876 21,033 26,399 23,485 25,356 30,111 11,315 12,296 16,472 Growth (%) -10% -1% 6% 26% 8% 19% 9% 34% Operating Profit 2,449 -16,946 5,788 1,727 503 2,949 1,801 -277 4,457 1,837 366 793 Growth (%) -792% 134% -71% 486% -115% 1709% -80% 117% Net Income -12,047 -15,612 -1,874 932 351 1,980 1,043 183 1,869 -472 879 Growth (%) 30% 88% -62% 464% -82% 921% 286% 2015 TP Bloomberg Consensus 14.36 26.11 6.24 18.75 ASK 85,655 82,969 4,063 5,655 12,951 15,419 4,247 5,375 Cabin Factor (%) 74 69 68 65 83 80 84 81 Pax Yield (Bt/Person-km) 2.65 2.66 4.50 3.40 1.81 1.64 2.96 2.57 Cost/ASK (Bt/Person-km) 2.44 2.51 4.00 3.30 1.67 1.66 2.39 2.36

Source: Compiled by AWS, SET, 2015F from Bloomberg Consensus

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