Deputy PM visits Phang Nga airport construction site

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Deputy PM visits Phang Nga airport construction site

By THE NATION

 

 

Commerce Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Jurin Laksanawisit was in Phuket and Phang Nga yesterday (October 25) to conduct a regional inspection and attend a meeting on the construction of Phang Nga Airport construction.

 

 

Jurin was accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Transport, Thaworn Senniam and an inspector from the Office of the Prime Minister and his team.

 

“The important focus of this meeting is to discuss the construction of Phang Nga Airport so that it can serve the high number of tourists who come to the Andaman region and relieve the strain on Phuket International Airport,” Jurin explained.

 

The airport can currently support 12 million visitors but tourist numbers are now around 18 million. “Studies indicate that Phang Nga Airport would have the capacity to handle about 25 million passengers,” he noted.

 

Yesterday’s meeting concluded that the new airport is necessary to help alleviate tourist congestion and assigned the Deputy Minister of Transport to coordinate with relevant agencies to select an executive of the Airports of Thailand to take charge of the construction project.

 

The meeting also instructed the governor of Phang Nga to monitor the airport issue closely, with follow-up duties assigned to the inspector from Office of the Prime Minister who will report to the Prime Minister.

 

Jurin and his team also surveyed the location for the new airport, which will be spread over some 7,300 rai.” “Earlier surveys found no suitable land in Phuket for the construction so Phang Nga was chosen for the propject,” Jurin said.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377767

 

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[Is this real]

Phang Nga got 3 million tourists from 2017-18.

Now, claims of 25 million a year because of an airport?  Not likely.

A big increase would be due to tourists landing there and immediately going elsewhere.

Phuket or Krabi. 85km

Surat Thani. 153km

Koh Samui. 260km

 

Just think of the money passengers must pay to go where they wanted!

Will many licensing fees need to be collected?

[Sydebolle]

Keep on dreaming - TAT will go into a total overdrive anytime soon with all this good news of 25, 40 and 100 million quality tourists burning money by the truck load .......... 

[Rhys]

Sad... they (Phang Nga) had protected themselves from this BS and now... Did the people of Phang Nga want this?

[Kopitiam]

I reckon, if the airport in Phang Nga is approved, it will be used to service mainly Phuket as the current Phuket airport cannot be expanded anymore.  When completed, it will become the new international airport.  This ties in nicely with the approved train system running from Phang Nga to Chalong.  They probably may have to build a new bridge to accommodate the increased in volume of traffic between Phang Nga and Phuket.

[DaRoadrunner]

18 million tourists! Call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye.