The plan involves suspending flight routes, adjusting marketing unprofitable strategies, selling assets and unused aircraft, restructuring manpower including a massive early retirement programme and improving non-core businesses. The company plans to have 1,400 staff enter early retirement by this year as a part of its long-term plan to cut 5,000 staff in total. THAI is also considering cutting flights on loss-making routes by 5% from October this year to March next year. The company's target is to slash between 8 and 9 billion baht in costs this year. Mr Thaweesak said the review of the implementation of the rehabilitation showed that the airline's operations in the third quarter fell short of target especially in the area of cost reduction.