Thai Airways International chief executive Mahidol Chantrangkun is preparing a sweeping proposal designed to revamp the airline's domestic and international operations.
Mahidol, who also serves as the Thai government's permanent secretary for transport, is heading the working group tasked with addressing repeatedly delayed privatisation plans, loss-making routes and outstanding currency adjustment loans.
Mahidol will present the proposal to the flag carriers' board on 24 September, and it is expected to detail a broad range of required policy changes starting with an immediate overhaul of the winter flight schedule.
The loss-making Bangkok-Osaka-Los Angeles and Bangkok-Jakarta-Sydney routes, for example, are almost certain to face termination, while marginally more successful routes such as Bangkok-Amsterdam-Zurich are likely be streamlined to non-stop services, such as Bangkok-Zurich.
To accommodate this type of change, the flag carrier aims to maintain Zurich-Amsterdam services through code-share agreements with Star Alliance partners.
"Instead of just creating new routes we want to utilise alliance code-shares - both to create networks that address unprofitable routes, and improve passenger services," a spokeswoman said.
Source: Flight Daily News
