the Thai minister of transportation made it very clear, that the Thai governement is intending to sell a minority stake of shares to the highest bidder in the first place, but that the Thai governement is also concerned that with Singapore Airlines now having joined StarAlliance (and favoring SIN as major asian hub against BKK) they are also in discussion on that share-deal with one-world-carriers (first place: BA).

Just months ago, Thai did strengthen their StarAlliance-links with a training/managing/technical/consulting agreement with Lufthansa ...