Piyasvasti Amranand, the chief executive officer of the state-controlled flag carrier Thai Airways International, was sacked Monday by the board of directors in a move that Piyasvasti called “politically motivated.” The board and top members of the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra immediately took to the news media to announce there had been no political interference. “There is no political interference in this issue,” Yingluck herself told reporters today.