Thai Airways International Gets Nod To Hire Cabin Crew

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THAI gets nod to hire cabin crew
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- National carrier Thai Airways International (THAI) will recruit about 250 cabin crew to solve the shortage of personnel and serve its new aircraft to be delivered this year.

The board of directors approved the hiring on Thursday and said the application process would start this month. The airline has faced a shortage of personnel since last year, said Ampon Kittiampon, who chairs the board.

The board agreed that its business performance in January was still positive. The airline carried 1.89 million passengers, an 8.1-per-cent increase from the same month last year. Its overall cabin factor rose to 78.8 per cent, up from 77.3 per cent. On regional routes, cabin factor increased to 74.7 per cent from 69.6 per cent the previous year.

Thai Smile, its subsidiary brand, also showed good performance. Its cabin factor was on average 84.8 per cent. Of its passengers, 79.4 per cent were on regional flights and the rest on domestic flights.

THAI's freight business was hit by the declining global economy, resulting in a drop in demand. Freight load factor in January declined to 47.4 per cent, down from 49.7 per cent in the same period last year.

The airline posted net profit of Bt6.51 billion for 2012 operations. Earnings per share were Bt2.85. In 2011, it lost Bt10.19 billion, or Bt4.67 per share. The firm attributed its financial improvement to its corporate strategy of increasing competitiveness through fuel risk management and cost-operating management, as well as the increase in its shareholding in Nok Air and setting up a business unit for Thai Smile.


-- The Nation 2013-03-02

[JeremyBowskill]

great news and well worth the headline!!! In other breaking news Somchi rents tuk tuk and takes tourists to see elephant show and noodle bar finds new pot wash.

Slow day on the news front is it? why not just do another hub article?

[NongKhaiKid]

Will they recruit katoeys ?

[Ricardo]

Does the Board really involve itself, in minor HR-issues like hiring a few more hosties to replace retiring ones, whatever happened to letting the management get on with doing their job ?

Hub of micro-management, perhaps ?

[rockderk]

The airline posted net profit of Bt6.51 billion for 2012 operations

What a coincidence! I posted the very same profit last year by giving my customers awful service and charging 30% more than my competitors while using outdated equipment also!

[chainarong]

Does the Board really involve itself, in minor HR-issues like hiring a few more hostise to replace retiring ones, whatever happened to letting the management get on with doing their job ?

Hub of micro-management, perhaps ?

Depends on how many to be hired , if it's two hundred odd the board would certainly want to know, like any company , especially the CFO.

[negreanu]

hopefully they will put out to pasture the old ones in J class.

[chainarong]

Will they recruit katoeys ?

Why not ???

[coma]

I for one am eagerly awaiting this "new aircraft ". The old 747's are wearing a [me] little thin.

[Payboy]

Thai Airways International (THAI) will recruit about 250 cabin crew

Problem is to get 250 applications, those hi-so kids are just not into such jobs these days.

[h90]

Does the Board really involve itself, in minor HR-issues like hiring a few more hosties to replace retiring ones, whatever happened to letting the management get on with doing their job ?

Hub of micro-management, perhaps ?

well not so minor, a job for the neighbors daughter, the job for the daughter of a red shirt, the sister of the mia noi of the secretary of the minister......

If you make the wrong person angry you loose your seat in the board, if you take everyone it is 4000 people. So it need to be carefully balanced.

Austrian Airlines was the same before it got bankrupt.

[Pimay1]

Maybe they will recruit some of the Cathay Pacific ladies. I hear they have enhanced services .

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c2_1312816398

[Thaddeus]

Ooh, anyone feel a calendar coming on.

[MEL1]

I'm so glad to hear Thai Airways HAS cabin crews now. I always thought the pilots voice was dubbed - now I know why.

-mel.

[ezzra]

hopefully they will put out to pasture the old ones in J class.

Indeed, right about time for the 'seasoned' staff to hit the retirement village...

[Marlow999]

Will they recruit katoeys ?

Why not ???

Because they're katoeys.

[awayfoe]

Will they recruit katoeys ?

Why not ???

one new customer for the airline ........

[Ricardo]

Does the Board really involve itself, in minor HR-issues like hiring a few more hostise to replace retiring ones, whatever happened to letting the management get on with doing their job ?

Hub of micro-management, perhaps ?

Depends on how many to be hired , if it's two hundred odd the board would certainly want to know, like any company , especially the CFO.

"Want to know", perhaps, as part of the MD/CEO's report to the Board, after the event.

I'd certainly expect them to want to see, discuss & give feedback to, and then agree the following year's Budget or Strategic-Plan.

But get down to the point of agreeing how many cabin-crew to recruit, at Board-level, wonder how many telesales-staff they agreed-upon, or how many assistant-engineers they discussed & authorised.

Perhaps they just didn't have anything better to do, in a Board-meeting, personally I'd wonder and be asking how the two subsidiaries had made a profit approximately the same, as the overall group-profit, wouldn't that imply that the rest of the group was still under-performing ?

Much more interesting strategic-issues to spend their valuable time upon, things like fleet-plans & sales/marketing strategies, identifying the reasons for the jump in load-factor so that further support might be directed towards maintaining that.

Maybe I just don't understand Board-level input at TG, or perhaps the PR-people just pulled this odd item out, at random ?

Edited March 2, 2013 by Ricardo

[Dork]

Does the Board really involve itself, in minor HR-issues like hiring a few more hostise to replace retiring ones, whatever happened to letting the management get on with doing their job ?

Hub of micro-management, perhaps ?

Depends on how many to be hired , if it's two hundred odd the board would certainly want to know, like any company , especially the CFO.

"Want to know", perhaps, as part of the MD/CEO's report to the Board, after the event.

I'd certainly expect them to want to see, discuss & give feedback to, and then agree the following year's Budget or Strategic-Plan.

But get down to the point of agreeing how many cabin-crew to recruit, at Board-level, wonder how many telesales-staff they agreed-upon, or how many assistant-engineers they discussed & authorised.

Perhaps they just didn't have anything better to do, in a Board-meeting, personally I'd wonder and be asking how the two subsidiaries had made a profit approximately the same, as the overall group-profit, wouldn't that imply that the rest of the group was still under-performing ?

Much more interesting strategic-issues to spend their valuable time upon, things like fleet-plans & sales/marketing strategies, identifying the reasons for the jump in load-factor so that further support might be directed towards maintaining that.

Maybe I just don't understand Board-level input at TG, or perhaps the PR-people just pulled this odd item out, at random ?

The block hiring and training of 250 cabin crew is major investment both immediate and ongoing. And that 250 are only the front line with a lot more extra people required to support them.

There isn't an airline in the world where such an expansion would happen without board of directors (or owners) approval.

[Locationthailand]

Weren't these guys only a month back arguing with unions over pay? Now they want to hire 250 more? And no, katoey's are off the list, you are not allowed to have tackle under the sarong.

[Ricardo]

TG employs just over 25,000 people, this represents just under 1% increase, do Boards really discuss and approve that level of detail ?

Or do they discuss and approve the Annual-Budget, the Five-Year-Plan, the senior-management and its performance, and other major factors in the group's business.

[TommoPhysicist]

Board of directors are needing somewhere to park their mia nois?

[johnlandy]

Will they recruit katoeys ?

They do already (have done for quite some time)