A Cathay Pacific flight attendant is out of a job after writing on her Facebook page that she wanted to throw coffee in the face of a passenger, a daughter of Thailand’s ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The flight attendant caused a stir in the Thai online communities last week for posting hostile comments about Paetongtarn Shinawatra. She also posted a picture of Paetongtarn’s seat number on a Bangkok-Hong Kong flight she worked on November 25.
The flight attendant said in her post that she had called her personal adviser to ask “if it was all right to throw something on [Paetongtarn] on this flight”.
“I discussed with another Thai colleague who didn’t like them about going over to ridicule her dad before she steps out of the plane,” she wrote. “Paetongtarn, I didn’t throw coffee in her face today but she had no clue that I will keep on fighting until your clan can no longer live like fleas on the Thai soil.”
Cathay Pacific posted an entry on its Thailand Facebook page on Monday stating that the attendant was “no longer an employee”. It did not release her name.
The flight attendant, whose Facebook handle is Honey Lochanachai, wrote that she had resigned in order to take responsibility.
Thaksin was ousted in a 2006 coup and lives in self-imposed exile following a 2008 corruption conviction. His sister Yingluck has been prime minister since last year. – Sapa-AP