Thai Airways Moves Equipment To Don Muang

[george]

Thai Airways moves equipment to Don Muang

BANGKOK: -- Only one week before domestic flights are to resume service at Bangkok's former Don Muang Airport, Thai Airways International (THAI) Sunday began moving some of its ground service equipment from the new Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Led by a police motorcade, the airline spent almost two hours in moving equipment loaded on 27 trailers and two crane trucks from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok's neighboring province of Samut Prakan to Don Muang.

On March 24, or only one-day before commercial domestic direct flights resume at Don Muang, THAI will move smaller equipment including passenger transport vehicles and luggage handling equipment to Don Muang.

THAI, along with three other domestic commercial airlines including Nok Air, One-Two-Go and Orient Thai, will resume their services at Don Muang to facilitate repairs of damaged sections of the runways and taxiways at Suvarnabhumi Airport which began full operations on September 28 last year.

There are over 100 cracks in the runways and taxiways at the new airport.

Reopening Don Muang, closed since the debut of Suvarnabhumi Airport, is intended to ease congestion while mounting problems are addressed at the new airport, according to Thai transport authorities.

--TNA 2007-03-18

[Martin]

Have they been hiring in help from a Japanese industrial "Just In Time" team?

I remember when JIT became the latest in-vogue thing among younger engineers in Singapore, and some of us 'old fogeys' took great delight in pointing out, whenever appropriate, that JIT had proved to be JTFL (i.e. Just Too F'ing Late.)

[Scott]

Perhaps it could be a new world concept in aviation--mobile airports. When the traffic is light in BKK, maybe a few planes could land on the expressway--remember to pay your 40 baht fee!

'Round and round and round we go, where we land, nobody knows!

[Rinrada]

Flying back to Bangers from CM on Saturday 24th so should land...................where?

[lomatopo]

Have they been hiring in help from a Japanese industrial "Just In Time" team?

I remember when JIT became the latest in-vogue thing among younger engineers in Singapore, and some of us 'old fogeys' took great delight in pointing out, whenever appropriate, that JIT had proved to be JTFL (i.e. Just Too F'ing Late.)

Well they successfully moved nearly everything from DMK to BKK on the day/night of 27 Sep 2006 so this minor move back should be a piece of cake.

[Rinrada]

Got the last one back to Suwanna (last train tae Glasgow central..last tr...etc)...1-2 go...mai peng ...

later ones were due to arrive at Don MUENG...DMK....

On arrival checked out the toilets ...2 were o-o-o.one of the travelators was also o-o-o- and we got stuck in the revolving doors......nice to be back again...

Picked up a taxi on top floor -departures- and no surchage ....225 bt to get home...