Rolls-Royce loses Thai Airways as exclusive customer

British aerospace large-cap Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (LSE:RR.) has been dropped by Thai Airways as the exclusive supplier of widebody engines. Bloomberg reported that the Bangkok-based airline placed an order for 45 General Electric-powered Boeing aircraft instead. Thai Airways and Rolls-Royce have priors; last November, the former’s chief executive Chai Eamsiri lambasted Rolls for not offering price concessions on an order of Trent engines. “You should never play hard to your customer. If you play hard, yo ...