All Thai Airways International articles
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In depthWhat future does the A380 have in a post-pandemic travel world?
Already a luxury of debatable value to many operators before the crisis, the A380 appears even less well-suited to a market featuring depressed travel demand and a focus on cargo
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Thai eyes profitability from 2023, as potential delisting looms
Embattled Thai Airways has disclosed that it expects to become profitable again from 2023 and return to positive equity by 2030.
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Fleet, staff cuts loom at struggling Thai Airways
Embattled Thai Airways has outlined ambitious plans for a post-restructuring future, including simplifying its fleet structure and cutting the number of staff.
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Thai Airways due to submit rehabilitation plan
Thai Airways International’s rehabilitation planners are expected to submit a plan on 2 March to Thailand’s Central Bankruptcy Court outlining how they propose the airline should be restructured.
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Thai Airways plunges to record full-year net loss; faces possible delisting
Thai Airways reported its worst-ever full-year net loss — dragged down by significant one-time costs — as it faces possible delisting from the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) because of negative equity.
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Thai granted final extension to submit rehabilitation plan
Thai Airways International’s submission of its rehabilitation plan is being delayed a second time after it won approval to submit the plan an additional month later.
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Thai mulls further extension to rehabilitation plan submission
Thai Airways International is considering another extension on the deadline to submit its restructuring plan, this time until the end of February or beginning of March.
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Restructuring Thai Airways and Asiana offload non-core subsidiaries
Thai Airways International and Asiana Airlines, both undergoing restructuring, have disclosed details about selling off non-core subsidiaries.
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Lease negotiations with Thai reaching ‘critical phase’: AA4
Negotiations between Thai Airways International and one of its lessors Amedeo Air Four Plus (AA4) over the future of four Airbus A350-900s are reaching a “critical phase” as the airline is due to finalise its restructuring plan next month.
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Thai Airways on track with rehabilitation plan: president
Thai Airways acting president Chansin Treenuchagron has offered reassurance that the carrier is working “diligently” to ensure its rehabilitation plan will be submitted by its “specified timeframe”.
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In depth
Asia-Pacific coronavirus crisis has clear winners and losers
Asia-Pacific airlines continue to have a rough ride with coronavirus, but the crisis will place further airspace between stronger and weaker carriers.
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Wake-vortex crash probe baffled by tight separation decision
Investigators have not been able to explain why the captain of a Diamond Aircraft DA62 calibration flight repeatedly breached minimum separation distances from commercial traffic at Dubai before a fatal wake-turbulence accident. Analysis of the accident sequence indicates the UK Flight Calibration Services DA62, conducting approaches to runway 30L, ...
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Analysis
Challenges ahead in Thai Airways business rehabilitation
The 60-year-old Thai Airways International, now in court-supervised business rehabilitation, carries the burden of legacy issues, a history of failed restructuring and transformations, and being ill-equipped to tackle industry challenges.
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FAA broadens emergency order in wake of 777 engine failure
Operators of Boeing 777-300ERs are being ordered urgently to remove another batch of interstage seals from General Electric GE90 engines, following an uncontained failure last October. The failure involved a Thai Airways International 777-300ER which had been preparing to depart Bangkok for Zurich. While the US FAA has ...
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Thai Airways appoints new chairman
Thai Airways International ’s vice-chairman Chaiyapruk Didyasarin has taken up the role of chairman, effective 16 January. Didyasarin was appointed acting chairman after Ekniti Nitithanprapas resigned at the start of November, amid pressure from the loss-making carrier’s financial performance. Thai’s third-quarter results published later in the month showed ...
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Loss-making Thai Airways' chairman quits
Thai Airways International's chairman has stepped down amid continuing pressure over the loss-making airline's financial performance.
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Thai 777 engine failure spurs emergency checks order
Operators of certain Boeing 777-300ERs are being ordered to conduct engine checks after the uncontained failure of the General Electric GE90 powerplant on a Thai Airways International aircraft.
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Thai Airways offers reassurances after 'motivational' warning
Thai Airways has dismissed a report that it is at risk of being shut down, arguing that local media had "misconstrued messages conveyed in a meeting" with airline staff.
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Thai 777-300ER suffers engine failure on departure
Investigators are probing an apparent uncontained engine failure involving a Thai Airways International Boeing 777-300ER during departure from Bangkok.
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Thai Airways ordered to revise aircraft acquisition plan
Thai Airways International’s board has ordered the management team to revise a proposed aircraft acquisition plan.
