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Thai Airways Opens Restaurant So You Can Eat Plane Food On The Ground

by Gary Leff on September 3, 2020

Sep 03 2020

Back in June Thai Airways, unable to transport many passengers, pivoted into the prepared meals space offering food pre-orders for pickup at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang airports. Now they’ve taken their culinary aspirations and grown that into a new airport cafe.

The new restaurant just opened yesterday, and is decorated with real airplane seats, model airplanes, and “even an airstair at the entrance that would (probably) make you miss boarding their iconic purple planes.”

Thai Airways Expected To File For Bankruptcy

by Gary Leff on May 18, 2020

May 18 2020

Thai Airways is majority government-owned, and a government panel has recommended that the airline restructure in bankruptcy. The Thai cabinet will consider bankruptcy for the airline on Tuesday.

Thai has lost money every year since 2013, in some of the very best times for the airline industry. It doesn’t just need a cash bridge to survive until the pandemic passes.

Airlines All Over The World Are Having Success At One Thing – Getting Governments To Give Them Money

by Gary Leff on April 24, 2020

Apr 24 2020

While there’s no doubt that airlines are struggling in the face of a sudden evaporation of demand for their product, what’s especially striking about this moment is the success airlines are having at the political game given that public health concerns might take budgetary priority – such as prioritizing funds for hospital beds, protective equipment, ventilators (which don’t appear to do much good) but just as importantly for treatments and ultimately vaccine research.

Thailand’s King Visited His Country Only Briefly, Returning To Quarantine With His Harem in Germany

by Gary Leff on April 17, 2020

Apr 17 2020

The king of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, is self-quarantining in Germany with a harem of 20 women and servants.

His country has had a ban on international flights in place, and Thai Airways has suspended passenger operations. Nonetheless the national carrier operated Bangkok – Munich service, including a tag flight between Switzerland and Germany.. so that the king could attend a dinner party, and then once again flee the country with a stop to see his wife before returning to the German Alps.

Heads Of Thai Airways And Bangkok Airport Resign Over Government’s Botched Response To Coronavirus

by Gary Leff on March 12, 2020

Mar 12 2020

The airport chief “was disheartened by refusal from other agencies” including immigration, health and the military, to provide cooperation in screening passengers. Indeed, reports are that face masks intended for workers screening passengers have been taken away from the airport and given to other government agencies.

Video: Cabin Crew Tackle Passenger Who Deliberately Coughed At Them

by Gary Leff on March 9, 2020

Mar 09 2020

China appears to have their coronavirus outbreak largely under control. However they’re now encouraging – even subsidizing – a return of international flights. I’ve worried that they would bring back infected passengers.

Naturally they’ve thought through this problem, and with the current low volume of international flying they are examining each passenger entering the country. Even at the current low volume of international travel to China, though, that’s backing up arriving flights by several hours in some cases. And that can cause unruly passengers.

Thai Airways Downgrades 3 Women Saying They Were Too Big To Fly Business Class

by Gary Leff on January 26, 2020

Jan 26 2020

Thai Airways pulled out a tape measure when the women checked in at the Bangkok airport. “She then pulled out a measuring tape and wrapped it around my daughter..moving her arms outstretched, before trying to do the same to me and [my other daughter]” the mother said.

Four Basic Reasons Thai Airways is Floundering on the Verge of Collapse

by Gary Leff on November 26, 2019

Nov 26 2019

In October the President of Thai Airways told employees that the airline was on the verge of shutting down with only a month’s runway to execute a turnaround. The airline promptly worked to walk that back, suggesting it was hyperbolic, but it nonetheless underscored that Thai Airways is underperforming and in financial difficulty, propped up by the Thai government.

There are four major underlying issues faced by the flag carrier.

Thai Airways On Verge of Shutting Down

by Gary Leff on October 23, 2019

Oct 23 2019

According to the President of Star Alliance member airline Thai Airways, the Bangkok-based carrier is on the verge of shutting down if they don’t succeed quickly in a turnaround.

Over the summer the airline’s President introduced a six point plan to crowd source cost cutting ideas; reduce food waste; make a ton of money flying to Sendai, Japan; collaborate with a local gas station cafe chain; and platitudes but it was (shockingly) insufficient.

Thai Airways Wants to Crowdsource Cost Cutting Ideas From Passengers and Other Hair-brained Schemes

by Gary Leff on August 16, 2019

Aug 16 2019

Star Alliance member Thai Airways, whose President says there’s “never a day without a problem,” has a six point plan to return to profitability.

It involves getting passengers to e-mail in ideas for cost-cutting, sell more services through its mobile app, add a new route to Japan, and partner with a Thai cafe chain that’s found inside of gas stations.