The Thai Airways workers union on Sunday deleted a Facebook post which blamed Thaksin Shinawatra’s administration and THAI’s board members for the company’s continuous net losses after fierce online criticism.
The page posted on Saturday night a list of reasons for the companies continued poor performance. The union represents about 6,000 out of around 20,000 Thai employees.
The union blamed a decision by the Thaksin’s administration to buy four A340-500 about 19 years ago. They said this was the start of the poor performances.
Other reasons include Thaksin’s decision to dilute 49 per cent of THAI shares.
After the criticisms of the union’s post online, union president Nares Phuengyam told reporters that the union would cease to make ‘political statements.’
“Thais of all political beliefs fly our airline so we must be neutral,” he told reporters.
The post comes as the current government is set to bail out the airline with a loan worth 50 billion baht to stay afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Many Thais believe that the state-owned airline should not be saved because of corruption allegations in the past.
Ex-THAI board member, Banyong Pongpanich, has also voiced his disagreement against the 50 billion baht bailout. He said the loan would only allow the airline to last for another 6 months and it will not fix anything.
He explained that the airline was already going down even before the outbreak as it has been posting a net loss of around 10 billion baht every year with accumulative debt of more than 300 billion baht.
