Despite the high profile potential bankruptcy announcement, Thai Airways is not the only Southeast Asian international carrier to be suffering from global air travel restrictions
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Thai Airways will keep flying. Yes, despite a recent bankruptcy announcement amidst covid-19 travel restrictions, sovereign air carriers do not simply just vanish into obscurity. Founded in 1960 as a joint venture between Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and Thailand’s domestic carrier, Thai Airways Company.
On 1 April 1977, the Thai government bought out the remaining SAS shares and Thai Airways became a sovereign, national entity, eventually incorporating the country’s domestic carrier and then going on to become the largest public listing on the Thai stock exchange in 1991.
?Thai Airways will enter a rehabilitation process under the court. We have decided to petition for restructuring and not let Thai Airways go bankrupt. The airline will continue to operate” – Thailand?s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha
Thai Airways to Resume Flying in June despite Bankruptcy Announcement
As a founding member of the world’s first and largest airline alliance, Star Alliance, Thai Airways has often served as a point of national pride much in the same way that other regional international carriers like Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines have been national symbols. To allow the dem...