200 Thai Pilots Resign?

[rajyindee]

A news conference to be held later this morning apparently ...

from The Nation ...

THAII's urgent press conference

August 24, 2014 10:26 pm

Thai Airways International will tomorrow host a press conference, following a report of mass resignation by over 200 pilots.

The report cited that the pilots were concerned with the airline’s fragile financial position. In the first half of this year, the national airline showed Bt10 billion in net loss. The outlook remains weak given fierce competition introduced mainly by low-cost airlines.

[meatboy]

traveling on thai from the early 80's to 2009 there was only twice that I can remember half full flights,one was when the gulf war broke out and about 2006 cant remember what the reason was,but they took the 747's off the London to bkk.route and put on airbus 300's.so they made a lot of money in the past.so where's it gone.

[harrry]

My guess is that financially if this is true Thailand can save millions. Pay rates on a world scale are much lower than they recieve. New pilots maybe?

[fatmoose]

traveling on thai from the early 80's to 2009 there was only twice that I can remember half full flights,one was when the gulf war broke out and about 2006 cant remember what the reason was,but they took the 747's off the London to bkk.route and put on airbus 300's.so they made a lot of money in the past.so where's it gone.

Maybe on that particular route but from BKK to all major capital cities in Australia and back have always been packed.

[SeaVisionBurma]

A couple of nonsense/troll posts have been removed.

[metisdead]

Since the news conference has been held please continue here:

THAI executive denies pilot resignation reports

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