THAI president hits back after being dumped

Thursday, 22 May, 2012 0

Thai Airways International has fired Piyasvasti Amranand as president of the national carrier.

Board chairman Ampon Kittiampon said the reason it discharged Piyasvasti was his lack of ”unity in communication” with the board and failure to push ahead some of the airline’s projects.

Piyasvasti, quoted by local media, said the board had the right to end his employment "but it must explain why clearly to the public".

He said it was also possible that his firing resulted from someone who wanted his position, from his investigations into graft at THAI, and from his punishment of corrupt THAI staff "who might have sought help from some powerful figures".

He pointed out that he had brought THAI back from a loss of more than 20 billion baht to profits in two years.

Piyasvasti said that in his two years and seven months in office, he had organised a huge aircraft acquisition programme to improve the airline that had suffered from old planes.



 

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