All airports to stay amid woes of over-capacity

By The Nation

 

 

Transport Minister Saksiam Chidchob has said the Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT) didn’t have a policy to close or downgrade any airport in Thailand, including those in Hat Yai and Chiang Rai, and there is no change to the planned expansion of six airports. 

 

The press reports regarding the planned closure of Hat Yai International Airport in Songkhla province and Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport were just misinterpretation, said AOT President Nitinai Sirismatthakarn adding that the real message was that the high-speed train project might lead to fewer clients for both airports. The AOT will draw up a flexible plan to deal with the development, he said.

 

Passenger traffic at most airports, except Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport, have exceeded capacity. The Chiang Mai Airport is serving 11.32 million travellers annually despite its capacity of 8 million while the Phuket Airport, with 12.5 million in maximum capacity, is struggling with 17.85 million passengers a year. 

 

Hat Yai Airport is serving 4.03 passengers annually, compared to 2.5 million in capacity. 

 

64.71 million people have passed through Suvarnabhumi Airport this year which has a yearly capacity of 45 million as Dong Meung Airport served 41.01 clients in spite of its capacity of 30 million. Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport is faring better with 2.95 million, slightly below its capacity of 3 million. 

 

These six airports currently have a total capacity of 101 million, and will be to 186 million people in 2024, the minister said. 

 

AOT recently organised a workshop, attended by the Architect Council of Thailand, on the expansion of Suvarnabhumi Airport’s northern section. The plan would be handed over to the Ministry of Transportation soon.

 

The minister also said that he had requested AOT to collaborate with relevant organisations in improving the immigration checking system using Electronic Visa (E-Visa) to lessen density in security checkpoints, provide more convenience for tourists and enhance efficiency in security and affordability of tourism.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377828

 

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More Rubbish Figures, This time for The AOT,Makes a change from TAT Though I Suppose !!

This absolute incompetence by this bunch of ultimate incompetents is so annoying: I was on the phone to a friend of mine a few hours ago, a friend who lives in Hatyai, and I was telling him about the planned closure of the airport. He was horrified.

 

Now - as so often - it all turns out to be a 'misunderstanding'.

 

God give me strength! This lot cannot do ANYTHING right - not even what is wrong (except for wrecking the whole country and snatching away democracy forever of course)!

 

 

 etc., pp. ...

Just like someone posted couple hrs ago in 'the other' thread ... going like "just wait for them doing the 180" ...

 

Left hand / right hand ...? Or simple: vastly overpaid idiots, period.

 

H-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s!

Two contradictory government statements today. One about airport closures the other about the impact of US trade penalties.

The Prayut government rabble is in total confusion. No one knows what the other person is doing or saying.

 

 

Yes I just posted on the other thread too 

 

5555

1 hour ago, Cadbury said:

Two contradictory government statements today. One about airport closures the other about the impact of US trade penalties.

The Prayut government rabble is in total confusion. No one knows what the other person is doing or saying.

 

 

This Transport Minister, (a Chidchob ???? is a bit of a loose cannon. But no doubt his detractors are also a bit inclined to recoil all over the artillery range, if not securely tied down.

 

I have been very unreliably informed that certain groups are maliciously engaged in deliberate misinformation. I'll just pass that onto you for what it isn't worth.

It’s truly mind boggling how dumb they are. No where else in the world have I ever looked at another human on a regular basis and thought they were just a tiny bit more evolved than an ape. At least Cambodia has an excuse. This region is a waste zone with Thailand behind ground zero.

Tourism in decline but expansion seems to be driven by optimism.

4 hours ago, dcnx said:

It’s truly mind boggling how dumb they are. No where else in the world have I ever looked at another human on a regular basis and thought they were just a tiny bit more evolved than an ape. At least Cambodia has an excuse. This region is a waste zone with Thailand behind ground zero.

They are fantastically lucky that

1. they have pretty women

2. they are a Buddhist country in a region with so much Islam (ID, MY, MM)

Otherwise, hardly anyone would have been interested in coming here.

OMG, I do believe that their heads are as empty as a vagrants address book

9 minutes ago, brenton said:

OMG, I do believe that their heads are as empty as a vagrants address book

Sharp as a bowling ball...

Closing MFL airport (Chiang Rai) would be a disaster, as the local economy is growing thanks to tourism. Idiots.

9 hours ago, Cadbury said:

Two contradictory government statements today. One about airport closures the other about the impact of US trade penalties.

The Prayut government rabble is in total confusion. No one knows what the other person is doing or saying.

 

 

Its lucky the average Thai has no idea about politics.

The greatest work of the ministers of this government is to comment and to comment, and always of the same things!
Go and ask the people what they think about the closure of the two airports, the problems you don't see are other and even bigger!

38 minutes ago, legend49 said:

Its lucky the average Thai has no idea about politics.

No mate - it is because the vast majority of Thais have no understanding or knowledge of politics that these corrupt duplicitous elite ah***s are getting away with it.  If the Thai people knew even 20% of what us westerners know, they would have marched on the ******* a long time ago.  And yes - that is why the elite/rich like to keep them that way.  And it has worked for a long time - the rich have been able to get very very rich for decades under the guise of being a third world country. But that tactic is starting to wear thin as more and more world groups are seeing how extremely wealthy some Thais have become, and yet how staggeringly poor most Thais still are, after 3-4 decades of huge economic growth.  

 

They are lucky that the average Thai just looks at the pretties in the paper and does not read it.

9 hours ago, Mexlark said:

This Transport Minister, (a Chidchob ???? is a bit of a loose cannon. But no doubt his detractors are also a bit inclined to recoil all over the artillery range, if not securely tied down.

 

I have been very unreliably informed that certain groups are maliciously engaged in deliberate misinformation. I'll just pass that onto you for what it isn't worth.

What do these groups hope to gain? Real estate?

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Hat Yai Airport is serving 4.03 passengers annually, compared to 2.5 million in capacity. 

Oops! 4.03 passengers annually no wonder they want to close it!

Now what were they doing just last year?! New Chiang Mai airport, based of course on projected increase's in travel and TOURISM. 

 

AOT has approved a 60 billion baht budget for a new Chiang Mai airport, to be built in Lamphun.

 

Maybe you want to rethink this one too.   

The real problem is the administration having to manage sixteen International airports within the country. If some could be reduced to Regional or Domestic airport status it would result in a cost saving.????

Told you.

 

The oil and gas industry would never allow closure of Had Yai airport.

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Hat Yai Airport is serving 4.03 passengers

I saw them in the lounge- they were playing bridge.

It is now pretty difficult to get a job as a pilot in Thailand because there is just nowhere to park new planes should Thai carriers want to expand their fleets. Therefore, there is reduced demand for pilots. As had been mentioned above, airports are operating well above their capacities, and that includes the facility to park planes as well as accommodate increasing passenger numbers.

1 hour ago, MartinKal said:

What do these groups hope to gain? Real estate?

As they lack in transparency, it would be very difficult to say. I tend to think of it as the figment of over-indoctrinated minds; both of those who might benefit from supporting a certain has-been, AND those who feel that would usurp their current conformist benefits.

 

I know of one couple who ended up most disgruntled that their fellow locals sent them to Coventry because they suddenly acquired a new rice mill in a remote province. The couple couldn't really figure out what all the fuss was about. The locals couldn't really figure out that they might have swallowed a fibber. And as a pretty vacant alien, I doubt I will ever really figure out either.

o·ver·ca·pac·i·ty

/ˌōvərkəˈpasədē/

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noun

noun: over-capacity

1. the situation in which an industry or factory cannot sell as much as it can produce.

   "margins were squeezed by overcapacity in the market"

The Whole HEADLINE is WRONG !!!!

 

"Over Capacity"... Means More Room than passengers...
What they want to say is the Opposite >> "UNDER Capacity"...
Which means More Passengers than room !!!

Flew through DMK twice this month. Practically empty.

And then there's the Hua Hin Airport, which seems to have evolved into a elite hub.  Seems like a waste, that there aren't cheap flights from BKK to Hua Hin, considering the traffic issues.  

39 minutes ago, mikebell said:

I saw them in the lounge- they were playing bridge.

Any arrests made?

Quote:-

 

"amid woes of over-capacity"

What on earth is going on? Just the other day it was stated that these airports were earmarked for closure due to UNDER-CAPACITY!