Thai authorities defend deserted airport terminal in ​​Phetchabun

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By Panithan Onthaworn

 

The Department of Airports responded to social media complaints on Thursday over the new vacant terminal building at Phetchabun Airport, 400 kilometers north of Bangkok. They said the terminal will reopen after the Covid-19 pandemic subsides.

 

Earlier this week, the Facebook page, Thailand Infrastructure, questioned why the government opted to build a new terminal building instead of renovating the existing one. The post drew plenty of netizens’ comments that the terminal is a waste of money. 

 

“Why do they keep building abandoned airports?” one user asked. “There is something fishy going on,” another user wrote.

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/36512/thai-authorities-defend-deserted-airport-terminal-in-phetchabun/

 

-- © Copyright Thai Enquirer 2022-01-14

 

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[ezzra]

Keep sending tourists to quarantine in god forsaken places in the south and you'll have even more ghost airports buddy...

[GreasyFingers]

Hope it does open up for commercial flights, much closer for us than Phitsanulok. But a flight to Bangkok would only be a little more than 1/2 hour so probably wont happen.

[hotchilli]

If it was viable before Covis it will be viable again in the future... 

A lack of passengers at the moment is the ideal time to renovate or re-build.

[NicholasTH]

I wonder why.. ????

[CLW]

100 percent sure if Thai media dig deeper, the building contractor is a relative or friend of local or state government officials....

[bangon04]

maybe the CCP gave them a "loan"......

[GreasyFingers]

24 minutes ago, bangon04 said:

maybe the CCP gave them a "loan"......

You need to go back through the record of who used the airport.