Nakhon Phanom airport seeks Bt120 million for expansion

[webfact]

Nakhon Phanom airport seeks Bt120 million for expansion

By The Nation

 

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Nakhon Phanom International Airport will seek Bt120 million from the government in the next fiscal year to add two more runways and expand is departures building, the airport director said on Tuesday.

 

Pirom Meekaew said the airport needs Bt91 million to expand the departures building to accommodate 600 passengers, an increase from the current capacity of 300. The money would also be used to instal 45 additional CCTV cameras.

 

Pirom said the rest of the money would be used to build two more runways, giving the airport a total of four runways.

 

Pirom said the airport is currently expanding its car park zone and is improving the landscape.

 

The airport received Bt150 million from the current fiscal year to improve its security system by installing CCTV cameras, an explosives scanning system, and weapon scanning system. The security system improvements are scheduled for September this year.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30343819

 

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[canopus1969]

They need 4 runways, they must be extracting the urine 

[Ombra]

AirAsia has three flights a day from Bangkok to Nakhon Phanom and Nok Air has two, so it is hard to see why four runways are needed. The flight training school at the airport seems to be fairly quiet these days.

[tso310]

Perhaps he meant parking for 4 aircraft. The amount of money he's asked for wouldn't pay for a new runway.

[Ombra]

Yes, you read the report carefully. If 91 million is to be spent on expanding the airport buildings, then he cannot mean a new runway.

[ubonjoe]

How many runways does the airport have now. I think it is only one. Perhaps they mean taxiways or ramp areas.

Only one runway is shown on Google maps. https://goo.gl/maps/nRRepN9EZop

 

[Bangkok Barry]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Nakhon Phanom International Airport

 

Where do flights go to/from internationally? According to Wikipedia it is a domestic airport serving only Bangkok. Bangkok is in Thailand. More wonderful Thai-style reporting accuracy perhaps? Or more likely visions of grandeur.

 

[Sydebolle]

April's Fool again. The next, also single-runway domestic airport is SNO (Sakhon Nakorn), a mere 75kms southwest and also very easily accessible from Highway 22. All those aerodromes are left-overs from the Vietnam war, when those airports were "international" without landing at the destination.

If Pirom Meekaew can extend the departure terminal to accommodate three plane loads simultaneously, put in another 45 CCTVV and add two more FAA-approved runways (the single existing one, direction 15/33 is 2500m/8200ft) for a mere Bt 91 million, then I suggest to put him in charge of anything to be built in, say, east of Suez. The Pattaya underpass was apparently ten times that amount.