Thai Airways delays widebody retirements to ease capacity issues

Credit: Rob Finlayson
Thai Airways is postponing retiring some of its oldest widebody aircraft to cover delays in its fleet acquisition plans and a capacity crunch caused by Boeing 787 groundings for unschedued engine maintenance. The Thailand flag carrier had planned to retire its remaining Boeing 747-400s over the next...
Adrian Schofield

Adrian is a senior air transport editor for Aviation Week, based in New Zealand. He covers commercial aviation in the Asia-Pacific region.

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