Thai Airways to ground its entire fleet for two months, all employees to take unpaid leave

2nd April 2020 – (Bangkok) Embattled Thai Airways International announced that they will ground all flights for 2 months and the employees have been requested to take two months off from 4th April to 31st May.

From today, flights to destinations in the same region have been suspended until 31st May. All flights to Europe will be cancelled from now till end of May.

Since the beginning of this year, the passenger load per flight has dropped to fewer than 50%. The President of the airline, Chakkrit Parapuntakul said many countries are on coronavirus lockdown, so the company has to suspend flights and close its offices.