Airport investment budget raised

Published: 17/03/2009 at 04:40 PM
Online news: Breakingnews

The cabinet on Tuesday gave Airports of Thailand (AoT) approval to increase the investment budget for Suvarnabhumi airport in the first phase from 123.92 billion baht to 135.17 billion baht, deputy government spokesman Supachai Jaisamut said.

He said the AoT was also been given the green light to use 5.89 billion baht from its revenue to alleviate the problem of noise pollution at Suvarnabhumi in 2009.

Next year, the company would be allowed to spend another 5.33 billion baht on this problem.

Raising the company's funds would reflect the company's actual spending, and the government wanted people living around Suvarnabhumi not to have to suffer from the noise from the airport, Mr Supachai said.

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Jerel Gilman

Discussion 1 : 17/03/2009 at 11:54 PM1
Todays Thailand economy, coupled with Global finacial issues, should be looking at how to prevent a breakdown in tourist traffic flow into and out of Thailand. Using the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary rule of backups, or planned elimination of a sigle point of failure, it would seem most financially prudent to keep both Bangkok airports open and functioning. One days delay in airport shutdown from tourist and cargo revenue is far more expensive than maintaining both airports.

To re-open and retro fit an already closed airport has shown to be most costly and time consuming.

Better planning and asset utilization by AOT and the carriers will also help reduce wasted man hours and reduce costs. Reduced flights and airport load sharing will also ease noise pollution and traffic congestion in and around the new airport.

This article submited by Jerel Gilman of JBGIlMAN Consulting Group, LLC (www.jbgilman.com), a recognized subject matter expert in the Transportation Industry. Mr Gilman had previously studied the numerous impacts of having only one airport operationing in Bangkok during the 2004/2005 Tsunami event.

Airport investment budget raised