Thai Airways on financial brink as government debates rescue

Cash-strapped national flag carrier asks state to guarantee $2.2bn bridge loan

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Thai Airways aircraft are parked at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok after the company has suspended most of its international and domestic passenger services. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)

MASAYUKI YUDA, Nikkei staff writer

BANGKOK -- Thai Airways International, a listed state-owned enterprise, is dangerously close to becoming the world's first national flag carrier to go bust amid the coronavirus pandemic, with only days left to maneuver out of its latest financial straits.

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