Suvarnabhumi breathes easier on AirAsia departure

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Suvarnabhumi breathes easier on AirAsia departure

Published: 29 Sep 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: Business

Come Monday, the congestion at Suvarnabhumi airport will begin visibly to ease as AirAsia moves its entire passenger traffic to Don Mueang airport on the other side of the capital.

The low-cost carrier group will take about 10 million passengers a year with it to Bangkok's old airfield, thus reducing the expected passenger throughput at Suvarnabhumi next year to 44.3 million, slightly below Suvarnabhumi's designed passenger handling capacity of 45 million passengers a year.

In other words, Suvarnabhumi will be relieved of 180 take-offs and landings each day or 23,000-25,000 passengers a day, said Suvarnabhumi airport general manager Somchai Sawasdeepon.

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"... AoT plans to turn Suvarnabhumi into one of the world's top-five most admired airports in the Airports Council International rankings next year ... "

Granting that Mr. Somchai is seriously committed to his statement, AoT is faced with an uphill task. At least three important issues need to be addressed immediately: (1) the long queues at immigration; (2) discourteous, unfriendly, apathetic/no-care attitude of immigration officers (no one smiles nowadays; passengers are normally met with surly, unsmiling faces!); and, (3) illegal tour guides/travel agents and tax drivers that con tourists and fellow Thais alike.
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