Thai Airways International (TG, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) management has resolved not to sell one of their four decommissioned A340-500s to British firm, AvCon Worldwide, despite them having already put down a deposit of USD2.5million. AvCon represents the interests of Saudi Arabia's Prince Faisal al-Saud. The Bangkok Post reports that Thai authorities had forewarned that AvCon's proposed acquisition price of USD23.5million was too low and are now considering possibilities to make use of the planes and will propose the finding to the airline's board by next month. THAI executive vice-president Teerapol Chotichanapibal said that should the aircraft fail to find buyers, Thai would likely consider redeploying them into operational use on flights limited to 4 to 6 hours, Japan in particular. "It would be OK if [revenues] only cover their maintenance costs," he said. "It's difficult to make profits because of fuel costs of these planes are high." The Thai national carrier had placed a book value of USD66.9million on each of the aircraft which are fast disappearing from the skies given their poor fuel economy.