Your waist matters if you want to fly business class on Thai Airways

BANGKOK: Passengers intending to fly business class on Thai Airways’ (THAI) new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft will have to first pass the waist test.

Flight Lieutenant Pratthana Pattanasirim, THAI’s director of security and flight standard division, said on Friday that a passenger with waist wider than 56 inches cannot fly business class on Boeing 787-9.