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ICAO to Reevaluate Thailand’s Red Flag Status
24th Feb 2017
Thailand’s Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith met on Friday with executives of 15 Thai airlines to notify them of the upcoming visit by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) safety inspectors.
Following the meeting, the minister said he is confident that Thai aviation industry will be removed from the ICAO red flag list.
The ICAO inspectors will come to Thailand on 30th June, this year.
Thailand has been red-flagged by ICAO since June 2015 due to a number of safety and organizational issues regarding its civil aviation sector. At the time, ICAO notified the Department of Civil Aviation that its supervision of Thai aviation industry was not up to standards.
Since then, the DCA has become defunct and has been replaced on 1st October, 2015 by an independent Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand and the Department of Airports. The CAAT now manages airline and airport regulatory standards, while the Department of Airports manages 30 airports previously under DCA control.
Explaining its decision at the time, ICAO said in a statement:
Significant safety concerns (SSC) does not necessarily indicate a particular safety deficiency in the air navigation service providers, airlines (air operators), aircraft or aerodrome[s]; but, rather, indicates that the state is not providing sufficient safety oversight to ensure the effective implementation of applicable ICAO standards.
Thailand in particular scored low in two ICAO measurements – organization and operations. For operations (“state ability to properly oversee airlines under its jurisdiction), Thailand scored only 10.71%. The global average is 54.94%. In organizational structure Thailand measured only 7.69%, while the global average is 66.9%.
The minister also said he is confident that the aviation bill, which is being finalized and will be publicized soon, will convince ICAO that the country has upgraded its aviation standards and is now ready to better, supervise them.
At the moment, Thailand is one of only eight countries in the world to have its civil aviation sector “red-flagged” by a 190-member United Nations agency. The only other country in the Asia Pacific to be red flagged by ICAO is Nepal.
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