EU warns Thailand over air safety
EU regulators have issued a special warning over travelling on airlines from Thailand, but stopped short of following last week's damaging US safety downgrade.
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, said Thailand would be closely monitored as it updated the bloc's air safety blacklist.
While 'no air carriers from Thailand were added to the Air Safety List at this time ... the Commission and European Aviation Safety Agency will however closely monitor future developments', the Commission said in a statement on Thursday.
'If the protection of air passengers against safety risks so requires, the Commission could then propose to include one or more air carriers from Thailand in the Air Safety List,' it added.
The Commission gave no specific reasons for its action.
US authorities in their decision last week cited a series of shortcomings over 'technical expertise, trained personnel, record-keeping, or inspection procedures'.
For a country heavily dependent on tourism, the US ruling was a huge blow.
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