Really Cool Airlines

Updated 12th Aug 2026

Really Cool Airlines has never flown. It was founded in 2023 and has missed one launch date after another since, without a single aircraft entering service. Every route it has discussed is international from Bangkok, and it has never proposed a Thai domestic route, so it has never appeared in this site's route data.

Is Really Cool Airlines flying yet?

No. It obtained an Air Operating Licence (AOL) from the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) in July 2023, which is the first of two approvals an airline needs before it can fly.

Carrying passengers needs a separate Air Operator Certificate (AOC), and through 2025 the airline was reported as still waiting for one. Its launch date moved from December 2023 to 2024, then May 2025, then the first quarter of 2026.

In February 2026 Really Cool Airlines was reported as removed from CAAT's certificate list. Neither the authority nor the airline commented at the time, and the record has been quiet since.

Its own website still runs the slogan "We Fly the Future", and the most recent dated item on its news page is from April 2024. None of the aircraft types announced has ever been delivered.

Who founded Really Cool Airlines?

Patee Sarasin founded the airline and is still named as its chief executive. He ran Nok Air for more than a decade before that. The operating company, RCA Global Co., Ltd, was registered on 2 March 2023, one of nine airlines that applied for a Thai AOC that year.

What has Really Cool Airlines planned to fly?

The first aircraft was announced as an Airbus A350 in 2023, then the plan shifted to Airbus A330-300s. In November 2024, Aviation Week reported a further plan to lease two Boeing 777-200ERs from Thai Airways International; this remained the stated plan in 2025.

The routes have all been international. Tokyo Narita and Nagoya came up in 2024, a Kazakhstan announcement came in April 2024, and a Bangkok-to-Tokyo launch from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) was targeted for May 2025. Interviews also raised South Korea, China, the United Kingdom, France and Australia, none of which became a scheduled service.

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