Fly our friendly skies
Only in Thailand can people go to bed thinking the capital has one international airport plus a domestic one (to be reopened in haste), then to wake up and find there are two international airports.
Conspiracy theory: How could authorities build a new expensive airport knowing that it would be full from the moment they opened it? Are they THAT incompetent? No, it is because they had planned to reopen the old airport all along. Rumour has it that Don Muang is controlled by the air force guys while Suvanaphumi is controlled by the army. Both brances of the military want their own cash cow. Will we get a navy airport too?
Tags: Bangkok airport, Thailand
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February 7th, 2007 at 11:49 am
I flew out of the new airport on Monday and a double queue for the checkin was at least 100m long beyond the checkin counters and down the concourse and that was at 6.00 am. When we taxied down the runway there were 12 planes behind us.
The queue although long moved reasonably fast but what was was most annoying were the queue jumpers who mostly appeared to be chinese men in business suits.
February 10th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I recently retired, am a 55 year old American. I throughly enjoy reading your articles. I plan on moving to Bangkok at the end of this summer. I will be there the month of April to get a feel for the city. Thank you for all the helpful information.