Europe to Thailand: Buy our overpriced planes or suffer the consequences

by on January 21st, 2005

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=591&id=66782005

TSUNAMI-struck Thailand has been told by the European Commission that it must buy six A380 Airbus aircraft if it wants to escape the tariffs against its fishing industry.

While millions of Europeans are sending aid to Thailand to help its recovery, trade authorities in Brussels are demanding that Thai Airlines, its national carrier, pays £1.3 billion to buy its double-decker aircraft.

Marcos Rodriguez