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Thailand has a large Chinese population and coloured packets are gladly accepted with this deal also having more than a pungent whiff of fish sauce and dried prawn paste history is perhaps repeating itself.
“Facilitating payments” that grease the bureaucratic wheels are not uncommon in Thailand and seemingly particularly common at Thai-
https://loyaltylobby.com/2023/07/13/thai-airways-corruption-probe-into-2002-purchase-of-ten-airbus-a340-back-in-the-spotlight/
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2348688
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Mismanagement-and-graft-brought-down-Thai-Airways-panel
The Rolls-Royce bribery scandal that sent Thai national airline into nosedive
The Rolls-Royce bribery scandal that sent Thai national airline into nosedive
Should this deal survive (unlikely) it will hurt Rolls Royce but as is the saying ‘what goes around comes around’.
A possibility has to do more with the Asian “saving face” factor than a spread sheet factor. Specially when ( and I must tread lightly here) the C**** P******* Bureau controls so much as to how it wishes the Kingdom to be perceived by the rest of the world. The head of this Bureau is an aviation enthusiast having been trained in his earlier years on a jet fighter of a neighboring country’s Air Force.