New runway plans at Suvarnabhumi 6% complete - 94 flights/hour and 90 million passengers annually expected

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News quoted a deputy at the Airports Authority of Thailand as saying that despite the Covid pandemic the development of a new runway at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok was 6% complete. 

 

Contractors NWR had been clearing the area for Runway 3 and installing fencing on both the "airside and landside".

 

It is expected to be ready for service in August 2023, said Kirati Kitmanawat.

 

Capacity for flights will increase from the present 68 per hour to 94 per hour. 

 

And capacity for passengers will increase from 60 million per year to 90 million at Bangkok's main airport hub. 

 

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[petermik]

Runway on hold for some considerable time methinks......

[WaveHunter]

Wow, planning for runway expansion during the present state of this pandemic makes as much sense as all the new luxury hi-rise condos I see going up all over the region.  Talk about deluded expectations and misplaced priorities!

 

I wonder what planet these planners are living on anyway LOL!  Apparently it's the land of wishful thinking. 

Edited April 29, 2021 by WaveHunter

[RichardColeman]

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

And capacity for passengers will increase from 60 million per year to 90 million at Bangkok's main airport hub.

Ah, so longer immigration queues then  if they don't increase desk capacity !

[RobMuir]

90 million passengers annually expected

 

 

 

Misleading headline, the link merely said that they can "accommodate 90 million passengers" not that they are "expected".

 

On honest mistake or is it designed to upset the TAT bashers?

 

It is a very good airport. 

 

 

 

 

 

[colinneil]

Silly sods wasting money 90 million not in my lifetime.

Must have got a loony from T.A.T. to come up with them figures.

[petermik]

7 hours ago, RobMuir said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

On honest mistake or is it designed to upset the TAT bashers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Translate to English by any chance......

Edited April 29, 2021 by petermik

[jaiyen]

In any other country they would say that construction has just begun, but in Thailand it is 6% finished ! Won't be long before they say it is 98% finished !

[blazes]

Those air-traffic controllers are going to be busy.  Let's hope they are all sober and proficient in English....

[worgeordie]

"New runway plans at Suvarnabhumi 6% complete"

So they took some topsoil off, how is this news.

regards Worgeordie

[peleid]

Not yet, me thinks????

[adammike]

1 minute ago, peleid said:

Not yet, me thinks????

If 90m arrive I won't be one of them,that's not sustainable in any way shape or form.You have all seen and experienced what 30m can do.

[DogNo1]

How many tourists will now be confident of their safety in Thailand if a new pandemic were to occur?  Being in Thailand at that time could be a death sentence for foreigners.

[audaciousnomad]

For once they are WAY TOO EARLY rather than late. ????
Those numbers won't be happening for YEARS !!!

Edited April 29, 2021 by audaciousnomad

[AlfHuy]

90,000.000

 

55555

 

Fake news.

 

TAT means 90 Trillion a month.

 

 

Edited April 29, 2021 by AlfHuy

[RobMuir]

4 hours ago, colinneil said:

Silly sods wasting money 90 million not in my lifetime.

Must have got a loony from T.A.T. to come up with them figures.

As predicted.

 

Looks like whoever wrote the English version of this came up with the "expected" figures. The link that this is copied from clearly says "can accommodate', not "expected". 

 

They do domestic and most people fly in and out so the numbers don't seem unreasonable. They built this because they were already running at near full capacity pre covid.

 

Nearly 40 million foreign tourists, X two in and out gives 80 already. Plus all the domestic. 

 

They recently expanded Don Muang also.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

And capacity for passengers will increase from 60 million per year to 90 million at Bangkok's main airport hub. 

Time will tell.

[sammieuk1]

Could be useful for lunar launches or a fly through hotel for hoards of 14 night ASQ trippers ????

[Searat7]

Putting aside the pandemic for a moment the third runway is probably the first expansion that should have been planned (before new built terminal building) since Thailand airport opened in 2006. One reason besides capacity is that the runways have needed frequent maintenance and with a third runway you can be sure that at least 2 of them can always be operative.  

[bangon04]

7 hours ago, jaiyen said:

In any other country they would say that construction has just begun, but in Thailand it is 6% finished ! Won't be long before they say it is 98% finished !

lucky the Covid pandemic is already 6% finished in Thailand.....

[grin]

Did no one else read the title the same way I did? I.e. the plans are only 6% complete, not the runway.