New Suvarnabhumi Airport from September 28′06?

June 20th, 2006

Quoted afrom Bangkok Post, June 20 2006:

“All flights must use new Suvarnabhumi Airport from September 28 2006!

Suvarnabhumi International Airport will handle all regular commercial flights into Bangkok from September 28 2006, caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced yesterday.

Progress and system checks justified the confidence that Suvarnabhumi could take over regular commercial operations from Don Muang Airport in one go at 3 a.m. on Sep 28, he said. A plan for Don Muang Airport to be served low-cost airlines had been cancelled. All regular commercial flights will switch to Suvarnabhumi, while Don Muang Airport will, from then on, serve only government and military flights, along with private and charter flights.”

Mr. Pongsak Raktapongpaisal, caretaker Transport Minister added “Ahead of September 28, Thai Airways International, Bangkok Airways, PB Air, Nok Air, One-Two-Go and Thai AirAsia would direct some of their non-connecting domestic flights to land at Suvarnabhumi Airport from July 29 for real tests. But flights out of Bangkok would depart from Don Muang Airport as usual.

There would be enough public transport services and facilities available to serve passengers of the selected flights from July 29 onwards, and the passengers would also receive special certificates to mark their early appearance at the new airport.”

Well - I very much doubt if this is possible. From the general public especially those in the travel industry’s point of view, there seems to be a lot of work to be done at Suvarnabhumi Airport to be able to open on such date. Up to now, news and details on the public transport linking passengers into the city of Bangkok has not been made known publicly yet! Lets keep our fingers crossed if this will be true or not! We will keep posting the updated news on this new airport once availalble.

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